Subject Guide
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 strong focused thesis statements and research questions
- start finding scholarly sources
- search Sociology databases
- find data and statistics
- describe peer review and why your professors care about it
- read and analyze scholarly articles
- evaluate and select sources that are appropriate for university-level research
- use your sources to build evidence, arguments, and conclusions
- avoid plagiarism
- cite your sources in American Sociological Association (ASA) and American Psychological Association (APA) Style
- write annotations and annotated bibliographies
- develop paper outlines
- write research papers
- get articles and books from other libraries