LibGuides: PGM 450 Golf Facility Cases & Problems: Sources for your paper

Personal communications

Personal interviews are those you conduct as a means of obtaining information to support a key point in your paper (APA Sec. 8.7 p. 259).

How to cite personal communications
You may want to use a 'lead-in' to identify the person you spoke with to your reader.

Classroom or Intranet Resources

These are works recoverable only by certain audiences and not the general public. When the audience you are writing for can retrieve the the works, cite the works using the formats shown in Chapter 10 (e.g. Blackboard). If your paper is intended for a wider audience (e.g. shared with a client or an SBTDC Councilor or posted on CU FIND or is for professional publication) cite the sources as personal communications (APA sec. 8.8 p. 259).

Websites

How to document client, competitor, and vendor websites

Your Group's Surveys and Studies

Industry, Market, Demographic and Psychographic Reports

Golf Courses & Country Clubs in the US
US INDUSTRY (NAICS) REPORT 71391
Golf Driving Ranges & Family Fun Centers in the US
US INDUSTRY (NAICS) REPORT 71399

Demographics and Psychographics

Reference Solutions
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SimplyAnalytics
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