SOC 121: Research Capstone (Lopez-Aguado)

Welcome! In these workshop activities, you will have the opportunity to:

• Develop and practice strategies for mapping capstone questions to databases
• Utilize reference management tools to organize citations and appropriately give credit to original authors
• Identify strategies for growing your literature review (cited by, pearl growing, works cited)
• Critically evaluate sources in your discipline to identify the contribution that particular source makes to 

Library Workshop Goal:

Find and evaluate at least 1 scholarly article studying similar phenomena with respect to your social issue that you might use in your literature review. 

In this activity, you'll spend some time finding potential sources for your capstone project. 

1. In the tab, "Find Scholarly Articles", select a subject database that relates to your capstone question.
2. Using the subject database, conduct your initial search (Tip: make sure you have identified your keywords)
   • Consider using filters
3. Identify at least 2-3 sources

In this activity, we will use the Source Matrix as a tool for analyzing the references you've chosen for your capstone project. We will look at one example and then you will complete at least 1 analysis of your resource to share out to the class via this Padlet. The remainder of class will be spent searching for more sources and completing the Source Matrix.

Example: 

Complete the tutorial to the best of your ability: https://scu.libwizard.com/f/zotero