This document provides guidance on conducting research on a topic related to immigration and student activism. It suggests keywords and search strings to use in databases to find relevant qualitative sources, such as articles using ethnography, case studies or interviews. Tips are provided on formatting citations in APA and ASA style, including common errors to avoid and how to fix them. Microsoft Word shortcuts are also included for changing case and creating hanging indents for citations.

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2. What are the main issues.
What are the
guiding questions
for your topic?
Topic.
Which Disciplines
study this
topic?

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4. Look at the references of a qualitative article
Add these keywords: ethnography, case studies, observation, interviews
or focus groups, perceptions, phenomenological, experiences narratives

5. AND
OR
ASTERISK (Shift + 8)
QUOTATION MARKS
UNIVERSAL
SEARCH OPTIONS
Refresher from SOC 270
Connectors
Expand
Restrict

6. Use this to connect
different variables. For
example:
racism and inequality
and

7. 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

8. Use this to look for root endings.
For example: interview* looks
for interviews, interviewing,
interviewer, etc.

9. c
Use this to search for
phrases. For example:
“digital divide”

10. What a search looks like.

11. Impact of immigration status on student activism
TOPIC
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12. “undocumented students” and narratives and civil rights*
protest* or resist* and undocumented and youth
immigration and students and activism

13. Let’s
Practice.

14. Finding the full text.
Get it @ CSULB
Steps for getting
full text
Request from
BeachReach

17. We deliver it to you via link in your email

18. So you need to
format in APA
Citation Generators
in most databases

19. Look for citation generators
in the records of the article
DATABASES
ONESEARCH

20. Common Citation Errors. APA

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

22. So you need to format
in ASA
Sociological Abstracts
Or
ASA Citation Generators

23. 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

26. 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
.

27. Citation Formatting
Microsoft Word

28. 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.

29. Changing Case

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