BUSN - Writing and Presenting
This guide provides resources to help with business communication, focusing on academic integrity, business writing, presentations, citing and referencing, and using web resources.
Trade, Magazine and News
Trade publications
- Also referred to as industry publications, applied literature or professional publications.
- Intent: to inform those working in the field/profession of industry trends, events, new products, techniques, and other professional issues.
- Trade literature is written by people working in the field. The articles in trade and professional journals cover news in the field, brief reports on research, opinions about trends and events, and products.
- Articles are fairly short, include illustrations, contain teminology used in the industry, and rarely include in-text citations and references.
Examples:
Harvard Business Review Canadian Jeweller CA Magazine Food in Canada Canadian Mining Journal Oilweek
Popular magazines
- Popular literature is written by journalists, who are employed by the magazine for which they write. Journalists cover news and current events in a field, general interest articles, profiles of people, places, or events, and political opinions.
- Intent: to entertain, to report news, or to summarize information.
- Popular magazines have eye-catching covers, include glossy illustrations and advertising.
- Articles are short and do not include in-text citations or references. Author credentials are not provided.
Examples:
Better Homes and Gardens Forbes National Geographic Time
News sources
- New sources include newspaper articles, press releases, newswires, broadcast transcripts, news organization blogs etc.
- Intent: to provide information and facts on current issues at the local,
national and international levels.
The U of C subscribes to many databases that contain a combination of peer-reviewed, scholarly, trade and popular journals and articles. Most of these databases allow you to limit your search results to peer-reviewed, scholarly/academic articles, trade publications, magazines, news articles etc.
Try searching these databases:
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowBusiness Source® Complete contains far more active, peer-reviewed, business related journals than any other database currently available. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals.
- This product supersedes Business Search Premier.
- ProQuest One Business (formerly ABI / Business Premium Collection) This link opens in a new windowABI Inform database contains a broad array of business information, from scholarly journals and dissertations, to company, industry and market focused trade news and features the latest news from top sources like the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and The Economist. Widely recommended as an excellent source for all business disciplines and courses. You may limit your search results to articles in trade (industry) publications or magazines using the "Source Type" limiter after entering search terms.ProQuest One Business is an intuitive and comprehensive business library containing millions of full-text items across scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos and more. Designed to help business researchers balance theoretical and practical learning, and acquire research skills that will make them successful in their courses and careers. ProQuest One Business content includes: company, industry, and country reports from providers such as Fitch Solutions and Economist Intelligence Unit, and in-depth analyst reports from J.P. Morgan; scholarly journals and ebook coverage from hundreds of publishers; full text of the three major global business news sources: The Wall Street Journal, the Economist, and the Financial Times; and a robust collection of videos.
- Factiva This link opens in a new windowProvides worldwide full text coverage of local and regional newspapers, trade publications, business newswires, press release wires, media transcripts, news photos, business-rich Web sites, investment analyst reports, market research reports, country and regional profiles, company profiles, historical market data.
- Due to license restrictions, access is limited to 6 simultaneous users.
- Interface in English, German, French or Chinese; contents in 22 languages.
- Canadian business & current affairs database This link opens in a new windowCanadian Business & Current Affairs Database combines full text and indexed content from all four subsets (Business, Current Events, Education, and Reference). Content comes from a broad range of Canadian sources and includes millions of full-text articles and records from 1933 to current, providing an ideal research environment for those interested in Canadian current events, business, science and technology, medical, humanities and the arts, and hundreds of topics.
- Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new windowCanadian Newsstream provides users with unmatched access to current Canadian news content with archives as far back as the 1970s, from over 360 news sources.
- Coverage is selectively from 1985 to the present.
- Includes fulltext of articles.
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