ANTH 495: Contemporary Issues in Anthropology
Research Guide for the Capstone Course in Anthropology
Behavioral Sciences and Women's & Gender Studies Librarian
When is Nadine Anderson, your Librarian, Available?
Email Nadine at nfanders@umich.edu for help with your research questions. During the semester I am available online from Monday through Friday. I do not engage in work emails outside of these days or holidays.
Welcome
This guide will show you how to:
- Access library databases, articles, and ebooks online
- Develop your thesis statement
- Start finding sources
- Do a deeper research dive:
- Describe the peer-review process and why it's important to your professors
- Analyze your articles
- Evaluate and select your sources
- Use your sources to build your evidence and arguments
- Avoid plagiarism
- Write your thesis statement
- Write your annotations
- Write your Research Essay
- Cite your sources
- Publish your research
- Get books or articles delivered from other libraries
- Browse Anthropology journals