SOC 497: Sociology Senior Research Seminar

Email Nadine at nfanders@umich.edu with your research questions and/or to set up an online meeting. During the Winter 2021 semester I am available online from Sunday to Thursday. I do not engage in work emails outside of these days or during holidays.

This guide will help you with your Research Seminar project:

1. Go to Online Library Access for help and instructions on accessing library databases, articles, and ebooks online

Annotated Bibliography and Proposal

• Go to Develop Your Research Question for instructions and guidelines on developing research questions for your proposed study
• Go to Start Finding Sources and Search Sociology Databases to find scholarly articles and ebooks
• Go to Find ebooks to find and browse scholarly ebooks
• Go to Find Datasets to identify datasets for your study (only if you want to use a dataset for your study design)
• Go to Analyze Your Articles to find key information in your scholarly articles
• ​Go to Use Your Sources for guidelines and instructions on using your sources to build a research design that will answer your research questions
• Go to Cite Your Sources for guidelines and templates for citing your sources 
• Go to Write Your Annotated Bibliography & Proposal for guidelines on putting together your annotated bibliography and study proposal

Literature Review

• Go to Start Finding Sources and Search Sociology Databases to find scholarly articles and ebooks
• Go to Find ebooks to find and browse scholarly ebooks
• Go to Analyze Your Articles to find key information in your scholarly articles
• ​Go to Use Your Sources for guidelines and instructions on using your sources to build your arguments and justifications for your study
• Go to Cite Your Sources for guidelines and templates on citing your sources
• Go to Write Your Literature Review for guidelines on putting together your literature review

Research Paper

• Go to Start Finding Sources and Search Sociology Databases to find scholarly articles and ebooks
• Go to Find ebooks to find and browse scholarly ebooks
• ​Go to Use Your Sources for guidelines and instructions on using your sources to build your arguments about what your study findings mean
• Go to Cite Your Sources for guidelines and templates on citing your sources for your Bibliography
• Go to Write Your Research Paper for guidelines on putting together each section of your Research Paper