how to do research for soc 355 at CSULB

1. Research

2. What are the main issues.
What disciplines
study your topic?
Topic.

3. Identify Empirical Articles
10-15
pages
long
Published
in an
academic
journal
Contains words
like:
Data, Participants,
this study,
methodology,
further research
20-40
references
Written by
academics
with
university
affiliations

4. Created with Haiku Deck
Connect your terms.
specific way to
enter your
keywords

5. and
race and stereotypes

6. latinx or Hispanic or latinos
or

7. Use the asterisk to
look for root
endings.
rac* looks for racial, race, racism, racist

8. Use quotation marks to
search for phrases.
“food insecurity”
“social media”

9. What a search looks like.

11. Let’s Practice.

12. Common Citation Errors. APA

13. Fixing the Errors. APA
After
Ending page
number found via
PDF of article

14. Common Citation Errors. ASA
Before

15. Fixing the Errors. ASA
After
.
Period after page
numbers
.

16. Citation Formatting
Microsoft Word

17. 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.

18. Changing Case

19. Ctrl + T *
Creates paragraphs with hanging indents
in Microsoft Word.
Command for Mac
*

20. Research Recap
Pick the
correct
database
Match
your terms
to the
database
Search at least
two databases
Use the
citation
generators
Contact ME
before you
get frustrated

21. Finding the full text.
Get it @ CSULB
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full text
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22. Click on Get it @ CSULB
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