CBAD 290: Integrated Business Communication

Welcome! This guide highlights the best resources and strategies for CBAD 290 research. Although this page contains a quick look at the most useful information, each page offers more detailed advice for finding different kinds of information. 

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It may help to start with broad searches on your industry or company. These engines will often retrieve too many results to find the best sources, but it can help you find more public-facing information and get a better idea of terms and concepts for more precise searches.

Once you have an idea of your industry or company, skip the search engines and go straight to discipline-specific databases. You will find fewer "false positives" in your results and will have more limiters/facets to quickly find SWOT Analysis, industry overviews, and more. This is the information you should use and cite in your reports.