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WGST 695: Principles of Feminist Inquiry: Research Process

Digging into your topic

What Makes a Good Research Question? - Handout from Duke University's (yes, Duke) Thompson Writing Program Writing Studio. Has good guidelines and examples of research questions.
Concept Mapping - Brainstorming technique that helps you visualize your topic, narrow it down, and think about the relationships between your concepts. Tutorial from Appalachian State University Library.
Three questions about your topic - Write down three questions you have about your topic. You may ask yourself: Who are you centering? Whose voices are you including? Where can you find this information?
Narrow down your topic - What time period? What location? What population of people?

Sage Research Methods
Research methods toolset designed to help researchers develop research projects, understand or identify particular methods, conduct research and write up their findings; library of more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and the Little Green Book and Little Blue Book series focusing on quantitative and qualitative methods.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.

Text and Data Mining guide
Learn about text and data mining, including tools for textual analysis and texts the library has access to for text mining.

Click through this web page to see the elements included in a scholarly article.

Ulrichs Web Online
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory is a bibliographic database providing detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on serials published throughout the world. Note: Users will need to register for a free individual account to take advantage of the full functionality of this resource.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: Varies by periodical

UNC Writing Center Offers in-person and online consultations.

The Writing Center also has tip sheets to help with writing techniques, such as:

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