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7. 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.
Think of what type of research is required.

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

14. romantic or interpersonal

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

16. cUse this to search for
phrases. For example:
“race relations”

18. DATABASES
LET’S SEARCH

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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

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

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