Search by:
1. Author (lastname firstname)
2. Title--If the title starts with "A," An," "The," or any foreign language equivalents, start with the next word in the title. So The Old Man and the Sea should be searched Old Man and the Sea
3. Keyword--these words might appear in the title, abstract, table of contents, or as an author.
4. Subject--Subjects provide uniformity for topics that might be described or titled many different things. You can start with a fairly simple subject search--like "Rhetoric" and get clues from the entries you find the catalog for other good subject headings to search. For example, in the BCL catalog, you'll find the following subject entry for Rhetoric:
Cinderella Ate My Daughter by 
Let's Get Free by 
Mediated: how the media shape your world by 
Organizational Communication by 
Browsing through the stacks works! . Because communication studies is interdisciplinary, you can browse many different areas of the stacks to find relevant materials. Use the library catalog (searching by subject) to identify relevant numbers, or consult the partial list of Dewey numbers below.
The 100s: Philosophy & Psychology
150 Psychology
152 Perception, movement, emotions, drives
153 Mental processes & intelligence
154 Subconscious & altered states
155 Differential & developmental psychology
156 Comparative psychology
158 Applied psychology
160 Logic
161 Induction
162 Deduction
165 Fallacies & sources of error
166 Syllogisms
167 Hypotheses
168 Argument & persuasion
169 Analogy
170 Ethics (Moral philosophy)
171 Systems & doctrines
The 300s: Social Sciences
302 Social interaction
303 Social processes
304 Factors affecting social behavior
305 Social groups
306 Culture & institutions
The 700s: The Arts
790 Recreational & performing arts
791 Public performances
792 Stage presentations
The 800s: Literature and Rhetoric
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