3. What are the main issues.
What are the
guiding questions
for your topic?
Topic.
Which Disciplines
study this
topic?
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5. Look at the references of a qualitative article
Add these keywords: ethnography, case studies, observation, interviews
or focus groups, perceptions, phenomenological, experiences narratives
6. AND
OR
ASTERISK (Shift + 8)
QUOTATION MARKS
UNIVERSAL
SEARCH OPTIONS
Refresher from SOC 270
Connectors
Expand
Restrict
7. Use this to connect
different variables. For
example:
racism and inequality
and
8. Place your terms in
the same search box
DO NOT USE THE “OR” OPTION IN THE PULL DOWN
MENU OF THE DATABASE!!!
coronavirus or covid
9. Use this to look for root endings.
For example: interview* looks
for interviews, interviewing,
interviewer, etc.
10. c
Use this to search for
phrases. For example:
“digital divide”
22. Fixing the Errors. APA
After
Ending page
number found via
PDF of article
23. So you need to format
in ASA
Sociological Abstracts
Or
ASA Citation Generators
24. Common Citation Errors. ASA
1. Part of the citation is in ALL CAPS
2. The journal title is not italicized
3. The ending page number for your article is missing
4. Includes an overly long URL from the database
5. There is no hanging indent
Before
25.
26.
27. Fixing the Errors. ASA
1. Change any words that are all caps
2. Italicize the Journal Title
3. Look at the PDF to find the ending page number
4. Remove URL (double check with professor first!)
5. Create a hanging indent
After
.
29. Changing Case
Use this to change case of entire
groups of words. Use when you need
to make everything lower case,
capitalized or to remove ALL CAPS.