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of Black women in America

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escribe your topic in one or twosentences.

efine the focus of the topic & theparticular aspects to be covered.

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oncept #1 African AmericanWomen

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urrent attitudes

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Refereed materials are publicationsreviewed by "expert readers" orreferees prior to the publication of the

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ournal

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Refereed materials are publicationsreviewed by "expert readers" orreferees prior to the publication of the

material. Refereed materials are alsoreferred to as Peer Reviewed orScholarly Journals

Non-refereed materials such asTrade Journals or Magazines useless rigorous standards ofscreening prior to publication

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Journal

Articles

STOR Provides image and full-text

online access to back issues ofselected scholarly journals

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JournalArticles

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ny informational material producedby a government agency (publishedat government expense, or as

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Digital LibraryProjects

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elevance: does the information pertain toyour research question?

urrency: how recently was the informationpublished? How recently has it been updated?Have there been new developments on thetopic?

uthorship: who wrote it? What are theircredentials? Do they cite their sources? Hasthe information been peer reviewed? (Peerreviewed means that a group knowledgeablein the subject has examined the article and

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