Doing Research Judith Friedman, Rutgers Sociology

 

Locating Information

Locating articles using Rutgers' Indexes
J. Friedman, 2009

Using Rutgers Library E-reserves. See library website

Separating scholarly articles from popular literature
a Rutgers Libraries resource; go to the Index and Data Bases page

Multiple Submissions: Rutgers policies

Taking notes in class or at a meeting

Christopher Leo's suggestions

Collecting Data

Oral History Section II focuses on the interview

Content Analysis: a website that includes examples of codes

collecting and organizing data
J . Friedman for Sociology Honors

taking fieldnotes by Professor Cati Coe and other videos about research methods

Data files you can use

World and US data on many topics
Population Reference Bureau

US Census data down to census tracts; many years

GSS and other files

more files, U. of Maryland

arts and culture files from Princeton

urban filesfrom the Urban Institute

Papers on Methodology

Economic and Social Research Council


Grammar -- have you forgotten something?

Purdue Writing Center

Colorado State University Writing Center

Writing a report

Barry Wellman's guidelines

Suggestions for finishing a paper, J. Friedman


References

websites Purdue Owl's suggestions

Refworks, Rutgers Libraries

Writing a grant proposal

Social Science Research Council guidelines

Writing a journal article

Guidelines for ASA publications

Presenting Data

Effective Data Presentations
from Population Reference Bureau

Tables. See research methods page

Using SPSS to create tables

A basic guide to SPSS J. Friedman

Undergraduates:

Fellowships

Jobs for sociology BAs
ASA website; select "students"
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