library research workshop
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Identify an area of interest relevant to the field of sociology: family, crime, health, inequality, aging, education, economy.....
Search for and summarize a [scholarly] journal article related to your interest area
Construct a research question... Explain how it relates to both your interest and your journal article
identify key terms
In order to recognize and build upon work already done in a particular topic area, a literature review is necessary:
Search for at least two more relevant [scholarly] journal articles*. Identify how these articles contribute to your research.
*[you can include and cite other resources in addition to the scholarly articles]
...Literature Review section:
Improve and maximize ......
you may still find other articles...
*All cited material must be referenced, with page numbers when appropriate.
For referencing, use the Turabian parenthetical citations... be sure to use the reference list [author-date] style
Brown, Campbell. 2011. "Consequentialize This." Ethics 121, no. 4 (July): 749-71. Accessed December 1, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/660696.
Kurylo, Anastacia. 2012. "Linsanity: The Construction of (Asian) Identity in an Online New York Knicks Basketball Forum." China Media Research 8, no. 4 (October): 15-28. Accessed March 9, 2013. EBSCO SOCindex.
A questionnaire about ethics showed... (Brown 2011, 752). ....In the online forum posts there was evidence... (Kurylo 2012, 16).