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Honors Seminar 198

General Information

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• Finding It! A Research Skills Tutorial : A self-paced tutorial in eight chapters. Covers the basics of research as well as how to avoid plagiarism, paraphrase correctly and cite your sources.

Evaluating Popular and Scholarly Articles

In your groups, look at these two articles, decide which is popular and which is scholarly and fill out the worksheet accordingly.

Revisiting Group Attachment: Ethnic and National Identity

One America

Databases

• Use to find articles from magazines and journals.
• Offers full text for over 1,200 academic journals on all subjects.
• Use search connectors (and, or) to narrow your results.
• Remember to limit to Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Articles

SocIndex with Full-Text (SIFT)

• Covers articles from over 4,000 sociology journals.
• Provides abstracts for more than 750 core journals dating as far back as 1895

JSTOR

• Provides full-text of over 450 scholarly articles in a variety of disciplines.
• Remember to narrow by type of article to get fewer results.

Library Catalog

• Search for books in The University Libraries.
• Use the search connector "and" to do a keyword search for more than one term.

Citing Your Sources

Library's Citation Guides

Page Authors: Amy Harris and Lynda Kellam