3. • Step 3: Search the database
•Try different keywords and searches
•Move from keyword to database subject headings
•Select the best citations
•Use internal citation generators
• Step 4: Evaluate resources
•Read and assess content
4. • Setp 5: Apply and use information
•Synthesize information
•Write up the finding and conclusion
•Create bibliography
• Circular process – Repeat and Revise
• Use the WGSS Research Guide!!
•http://csulb.libguides.com/wgss
6. • Develop a thesis statement
• The Republican Party 2012 electoral
campaign conducted an attack on women’s
reproductive rights.
7. • Define the question
• Ask why????
• What were the theoretical and concrete
conditions that have promoted the anti-women’s
rhetoric?
• Who are the individual Republicans creating
the attacks?
• Have the attacks helped or hindered the
candidates?
8. • Break down your thesis statement by concept
• The Republican Party’s attack on women’s
reproductive rights during the 2012 election
exposed the party’s regressive position on
women’s issues.
9.
10. • Boolean Operators
• AND Republicans
• OR
2012 Reproductive
Rights
Teenager
teenager adolescent OR
Adolescent
12. • Peer Reviewed Journals
• Based on research & written for other scholars
• Content & research model are reviewed by other scholars
• In-depth
• Extensive bibliography
13. • Popular Sources
• General reading level
• Short articles
• No citations
• Photos & advertisements
14. • Http://www.csulb.edu/library
• 1) Test or preliminary search for journal articles, books & more
• 2) Databases by topic
15.
16.
17. • Popular & scholarly including peer reviewed titles
• 100 international journals
• Coverage: 1978 to present
18. • General/Interdisciplinary
• Popular & scholarly
• Limit: Peer review box
• Coverage: 1975 to present
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