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Your critical auto-ethnography assignment, no matter what the topic is, must include academic / peer-reviewed references.
Your mini research project requires a literature review with 10 peer-reviewed sources published in the last 10 years speaking directly to your topic... Your final research report requires a more refined version of this literature review.
Your professor notes that: "It is always a good practice not only to read and identify peer-reviewed research, but also to index it 'on the go', making use of citation software. This will save you a lot of time during the production stage of the research report."
Your assignments require a reference list using APA style.
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Most peer-reviewed articles include a literature review within their text, even when it is not separately labeled as such
this paragraph is part of a literature review:
racial disparities and food insecurity
evolution of single-parent families
settler colonialism and violence
socially engaged art and activism
conspiracy theories and social movements
Try it for yourself:
Enter one of the above search queries in Sofia (or Google Scholar) and SocINDEX (or another subject-specific database) and compare results
my advice:
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 |
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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) |
("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)
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peer-reviewed articles checklist
is it a peer-reviwed reference? name 3 things
VIDEO: peer-review in 3 minutes
Search for library books, ebooks, articles and films
TIP: go back the last slide to see how to find and request it via Interlibrary Loans!
Canadian Review of Sociology
WHY SHOULD WE CARE ABOUT CITING & CITATIONS????
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
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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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!
Sometimes also called bibliographic management tools, these allow you to:
There are several citation management tools available.
Concordia Library provides support for ZOTERO...........
Concordia Library provides support for Zotero.
Citation Management SOFTWARE
(for example RefWorks, Mendeley, EndNote, Zotero....)