Part 7, Finding Articles in Periodical Indexes

After reading through your comments left of the prior assignment.  I was a little confused on the " " marks and where to place them, but I feel that I have a good understanding of how us use the Boolean search tools.  I did play around with the " " placement and received more results.  I will only use the " " when looking for a specific keyword.  

Here are the 3 articles that I found based on Censorship in America:

The successful search term that I used was "Censor*" and "America"

Magazine article:

Adam Phillips.  "Publisher Who Defied US Censorship Laws Dies at 89. " Voice of America News / FIND  24 Feb. 2012: Research Library, ProQuest. Web.  25 May. 2012.

This would definitely be an article that I would use because it has a great historical back round on censorship in America.  Barney Rosset a free-speech activist worked his whole life defying the odds.  According to Rosset "I feel that if people don't have the right to express themselves, first of all, they are not going to be happy, and secondly, they aren't going to develop the creative abilities they have, as scientists, as bankers, as anything," said in an interview to VOA in 2009. 

Scholarly article:

"is it legal? broadcasting. " Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom  56.1 (2007): 27-30. Research Library, ProQuest. Web.  25 May. 2012. 

Here is another great article that I would use in my research paper.  This article talks about how the FCC determines what should be censored and what shouldn't be.  Billboard awards are being censored for the same things being said on the Today show, yet the Today show is not being censored.  The FCC is determining what is indecent and what is not, yet both shows spoke on the same subject. 

Since I was unable to determine if this was scholarly, so I found another article.  

"What Johnny Shouldn't Read: Textbook Censorship In America. " English Journal  85.1 (1996): 80-81. Research Library, ProQuest. Web.  25 May. 2012.  

This article is older but worth putting into an research paper.  It is based on the censorship of books in schools in America.  What should we censor from our children, and who should determine this censorship? This article is written regarding a book "What Johnny Shouldn't Read", and its influences in the teaching community. 

"What Johnny Shouldn't Read: Textbook Censorship In America. " English Journal  85.1 (1996): 80-81. Research Library, ProQuest. Web.  25 May. 2012. 

Newspaper article:

Amir Efrati.  "Twitter's Censors Provoke Backlash. " Wall Street Journal (Online)  28  Jan. 2012,ProQuest National Newspapers Core, ProQuest. Web.  25 May. 2012. 

A newspaper article based on Twitter, and American based company that is being censored in countries overseas based on its contents.  I liked this article because it talks about the freedoms that American have with their speech, but other countries are demanding a censorship of their citizens.  As American we have to respect what other countries have mandated for their citizens. 

For me this was a more difficult search.  I wrongfully assumed that since I have heard so much about censorship that it would be an easy area to find research, but it took me a while to find these few articles.  I didn't have to revise my search very much, but found that what i wanted to write about a history paper on censorship the articles may be older than I would like them to be.  

Megan Fletcher