SOC 350: Poverty & Inequality (Forsythe-Brown)

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.

This guide will show you how to:

• Access library databases, articles, and ebooks online
• Find your course textbooks
• Use Sociological Abstracts (and its Search FAQs) to find scholarly peer-reviewed journal articles
• Use Mardigian Search (and its Search FAQs) to find books, ebooks, newspaper articles, and journal articles
• Find data and policy reports on reputable websites
• Describe the peer-review process and why it's important to your professors
• Read and analyze your journal articles to find key information for your article summaries
• Evaluate and select your sources
• Use your sources to build your evidence, arguments and conclusions 
• Avoid plagiarism
• Put together your citations and References list in APA style
  • follow the In-Text Citations, Quick Reference Guide, and Reference List -Examples links for guidelines and templates 
  • follow the Create an APA References List link and use the References list at the end of the Sample Student Paper
• Put together your annotations and your annotated bibliography
• Put together your White Paper
• Find Pre-Approved Library Books For White Paper Categories