Welcome to the research guide for COMM 23703.Use the menu on the left to access pages of content to direct your research. If you need more assistance, please Ask Us using the contact information below.
Your research begins with understanding your debate resolution and performing an environmental scan to determine current policy. For example, this year's college debate topic is:
Resolved: the United States Federal Government should substantially reduce restrictions on and/or substantially increase financial incentives for energy production in the United States of one or more of the following: coal, crude oil, natural gas, nuclear power, solar power, wind power.
Your environmental scan would answer the following questions. What are the current restrictions and incentives are available for energy production? What are the effects of the current policies? Do energy policies appear to effect the methods of energy production? What are the current rates of energy production ?
Use government websites, CQ Researcher and books to get background on your topic.
We can assist you with finding published articles and books on your topic and in locating materials in other libraries.
We can help you locate and use manuscript collections as well as the many published books in the Arkansas and Rare Books Collections.
