1. RESEARCH https://youtu.be/meT-8a83Pfw

2. What are the main issues.
Think of terms and variables that
characterize your thesis topic.
Think about what discipline in
addition to sociology would
research your topic.

3. Identify Empirical Articles
1 2 3 4 5
10-15
pages
long
Published
in an
academic
journal
Contains words
like:
Data, Participants,
this study,
methodology,
further research
20-40
references
Written by
academics
with
university
affiliations

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Use these to connect your terms.

5. Use this to connect
different variables. For
example: black and white
and

6. romantic or interpersonal

7. Use this to look for root
endings. For example:
rac* looks for racial,
race, races,

8. cUse this to search for
phrases. For example:
“social media”

9. MICROAGGRESSION
YOU.

10. Microaggres* and workplace
Stereotype* or microaggres* and legislation
Microaggress* AND retail and customer

12. So you
need to
format
in ASA
MLA
converts
to ASA in 4
steps

13. Arvanites, Thomas M., and Martin A. Asher. "State and County Incarceration Rates: The Direct
and Indirect Effects of Race and Inequality." The American Journal of Economics and Sociology,
vol. 57, no. 2, 1998, pp. 207-221 doi/10.1080/0735648X.1997.9721583
Arvanites, Thomas M. and Martin A. Asher. 1998. "State and County Incarceration Rates:The
Direct and Indirect Effects of Race and Inequality." The American Journal of Economics and
Sociology 57(2):207-221. doi/10.1080/0735648X.1997.9721583
Arvanites, Thomas M., and Martin A. Asher. "State and County Incarceration Rates: The Direct
and Indirect Effects of Race and Inequality." The American Journal of Economics and Sociology,
vol. 57, no. 2, 1998, pp. 207-221 doi/10.1080/0735648X.1997.9721583
Arvanites, Thomas M., and Martin A. Asher. "State and County Incarceration Rates: The
Direct and Indirect Effects of Race and Inequality." The American Journal of Economics and
Sociology 57 2 1998 207-221 doi/10.1080/0735648X.1997.9721583
3. Move Year
2. Delete: vol, no., pp. and commas
4. Add ( ) and ColonASA
MLA
1. Generate citation from database

14. Common Citation Errors.
1. Part of the citation is in ALL CAPS
2. Every Word Of The Article Title Is Capitalized (APA only)
3. The journal title is not italicized
4. The ending page number for your article is missing
5. There is no hanging indent
Before

15. Fixing the Errors.
1. Change any words that are all caps
2. Make the appropriate words lower case
3. Italicize the Journal Title
4. Look at the PDF of your document and find the
ending page number
5. Create a hanging indent
After

16. Ctrl+ T
Creates paragraphs
with hanging indents
in Microsoft Word.

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18. Finding
the full
text.
HTML
PDF
Get it @CSULB
BeachReach

19. Click on Get it @ CSULB
IF THERE IS NO FULL TEXT

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