library research workshop
Winter 2024
Google: soci 375 concordia library
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In looking at recent writings and posts about the myths surrounding bisexuality, I keep encountering discussions around monogamy. For example:
How do both popular and academic discourses around bisexuality -- especially those purporting to debunk stereotypes -- actually work to reinforce normative or colonial constructs around monogamy and non-monogamy?
Search for specific library books, ebooks, articles and films
2. when viewing results, note the new terms monogamous relationships, compulsory monogamy. Adjust your search to:
1. start simple, enter the terms monogamy AND normative
handout to download:
I like the 2008 book: The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915 by Sarah Carter as it seems to provide relevant context for my topic.
I want to find more recent articles that engage with this work, but particularly in the context of normative or compulsory notions of monogamy.
I can enter the article title in Google Scholar, click on the "Cited by" link and then add "search within" keywords such as : normative OR compulsory to find a whole new set of interesting results
normative OR compulsory
("police brutality" OR "police violence" OR "police shootings")
AND
(racis* OR discrimination OR bias or profiling)
AND
(defund* OR aboli* OR reform)
("police brutality" OR "police violence" OR "police shootings") (racism OR discrimination OR bias or profiling) (defund OR abolition OR reform)
VIDEO: peer-review in 3 minutes
which one(s) is/are scholarly?
link:
link:
which one(s) is/are scholarly?
This is a resource aimed at practitioners and researchers, but it is not written by an academic describing a research study or a theoretical framework. Though it casually refers to other studies, it does not seriously engage with other academic research and has NO BIBLIOGRAPHY!
This IS an academic/scholarly/
peer-reviewed article. Important clues: academic language, author draws on scholarly theories and outlines their own. Long BIBLIOGRAPHY of references. You can look up the journal Sexualities and find out that is peer-reviewed.
link:
link:
How to properly enter your KEYWORDS in Library Databases
handout to download:
TIP | WHAT IT DOES | EXAMPLE |
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AND |
Combines concepts. Limits how many results your search produces |
police AND violence |
OR |
Allows for synonyms or alternative terms. Increases the number or results your search produces. |
violence OR brutality |
* |
Near the end of a word, retrieves all words that start with the letters entered. Increases the number of results a search produces | Canad* (retrieves Canada, Canadian) |
“ ” | For two words or more, search for an exact phrase only, rather than each keyword separately. Limits how many results your search produces | “systemic racism” (retrieves systemic racism, but not systemic oppression related to racism) |
YouTube video, 3 mins
This is a challenge for all of us: Reflect on the way you approach referencing the work of others in your own writing, presenting and thinking. Whose work do you build on to make arguments ... Who are you citing, and why do you cite them (and not others)?
Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández,"Citation Practices" Critical Ethnic Studies, April 2015
I believe that bibliographies and endnotes and references and sources are alternative stories that can, in the most generous sense, centralize the practice of sharing ideas about liberation and resistance and writing against racial and sexual violence.
Katherine McKittrick,"Footnotes (Books and Papers Scattered about the Floor)", Dear Science and Other Stories,2021
Hakkinen and Akrami (2014) found that “individuals are receptive to climate change communications, regardless of ideological position” (p. 65).
Research shows that people from any ideological background are open to hearing about climate change (Hakkinen & Akrami, 2014).
see this sample paper with a reference list on p. 17
Many library databases (for example: Sofia Discovery tool, EBSCO and ProQuest databases) as well as Google Scholar will provide you with formatted citations in the style of your choice that you can copy and paste into your bibliography, reference list or works cited list.
Make sure to double check your generated citations - they are not always correct! Use those citation style guides to make sure all the required elements of the citation are present and correctly formatted.
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Sometimes also called bibliographic management tools, these allow you to:
There are several citation management tools available.
Concordia Library provides support for ZOTERO...........
Make sure to double check your generated citations - they are not always correct! Use those citation style guides to make sure all the required elements of the citation are present and correctly formatted.
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the object(s) of your study
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can be almost anything, depending on the CONTEXT!
can be PRIMARY sources?