This document provides tips and tricks for researching thesis topics, including thinking of key terms and variables, related disciplines, and search strategies using operators, wildcards, and phrases. It also recommends databases for articles, books and reports, interlibrary loans for requested articles, and techniques for expanding searches.

1. Tips and Tricks
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4. What are the main issues.
Think of terms and variables that
characterize your thesis topic.
Think about what discipline in
addition to sociology would
research your topic.

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8. Use this to connect
different variables. For
example:
misogyny and video games
and

9. Use this to search for either
term. Always use ( ) around
OR terms. For example:
(online or video)
or

10. Use this to look for root
endings. For example:
gam* looks for game,
games, gaming

11. cUse this to search for
phrases. For example:
“virtual bodies”

12. “virtual bod*” and female*
gam* and representation* and women
Grand theft and sex*

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14. Searches for books,
articles and reports
across many databases
OneSearch.

15. Database by Topic.
allows you to find articles
in a specific discipline
and use more advance
terminology

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20. The library emails you
the PDF of the
requested article in less
than 72 hours
BeachReach.

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22. • Add social aspects or
psychological aspects
with your general topic
• Look at the subjects
after a keyword search
• Always repeat search
in link+

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