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Handouts…

Agenda• Your Assignments• 7 Research Steps • Topic Narrowing/Broadening• Identifying, Locating &

Evaluating Articles• Annotating & Citing References• What will you differently?• Research Your Own Topics • Questions Welcome!

Road to Research

Your Assignments...

Research Paper Steps1. Pick a topic2. ID topic limiters3. Brainstorm4. ID databases5. Keyword => Subject6. Evaluate Results7. Save Citations & Locate

Topic Narrowing/Broadening

Mental Mapping• Near-death hallucinations of

people in the Hispanic community

Key Topic Words• Near-death• Hallucinations• Hispanic community

Related Words/Concepts

• Near-death => near death experience*, dying

• Hallucinations => hallucination*, consciousness

• Hispanic community => Hispanic*, Latin*, Chican*

Dignity and the dying process

Focus Your Topic!• Identify (Circle) Key Concepts• Brainstorm Related Words

Questions?

What’s a JOURNAL?

Academic Conversations

Evidence…

Peer Review/Referee Process

Empirical“Derived from observation or

experiment rather than speculation or theory.”

(Colman, A. M. (2006). A Dictionary of Psychology. Oxford; New York, NY: Oxford University Press.)

Questions?

Finding Databases• UCLA Library

– Frequently Used DBs– DBs by Subject– DBs A-Z

• GE80 Research Guide for Class

PsycINFO• Topics: Psychology & Related

Fields• Items: Journal articles, book

chapters, dissertations, conference proceedings

• Time: 1806-present

Try it!

Differences in perspectives of death and grief and in pre- and post-death practices of various U.S. minority cultures (primarily East/South Asian, Latin American, Native American)

Don’t Pay for Articles!!!

Abstracts & Annotations

• What’s an abstract?• What’s an annotation?

Internet Public Library• www.ipl.org

Questions?

Citation Style Help• APA Publication Manual (print--

2001)• KnightCite (APA 5th ed.)• SourceAid (APA 5th ed.)

Review: Save Time & Effort!

• Your Assignments• 7 Research Steps • Topic Narrowing/Broadening• Identifying, Locating & Evaluating

Articles• Annotating & Citing References

•Think Critically!• and…

Ask Us!

Answer a few questions…

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What will you do differently?

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Research Your Own Topics…