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Oral Communication - COMM 1000 - Lori Johnson

Topics (CQ Researcher)

CQ Researcher (find a topic)

To find a topic:

1. Click on "Browse Topics"
2. Click on "By date"
3. Click on a year, browse, choose a topic.

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(Example: "tea party")

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(Example: political AND parties AND California)

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(Example: financing OR funding)

Get variations of words:

Use an ASTERISK (*)
financ* gets all variations of the word such as: finance, financial, financing, etc.