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Greetings, Spring 2025 Students!
This guide includes resources to support your Capstone course for Sociology 191. The theme of the course focuses on U.S. undergraduates and their success. This page contains some pre-work including 1) a link to the "Using Sociological Abstracts" tutorial 2) the "Introduction to ASA Style Tutorial", and 3) information about downloading and installing the campus VPN.
Please begin by completing the "Using Sociological Abstracts" tutorial before class by February 3.
Thanks!
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me, your librarian.
Click on the image below or the link at the bottom of this section to be taken to the tutorial start screen.
Through this tutorial you will learn how to:
access Sociological Abstracts
construct a search
apply useful database limiters
access full-text of articles
generate citations in ASA format
1. Connect to the campus network via the VPN if you are off-campus. You will need this connection to access one or more library databases while taking the tutorial.
2. Take the short quiz at the end of the tutorial. Enter your email address AND your professor's email address. Afterwards locate the email confirmation. These emails often go to your SPAM folder, so be sure to check there. It is often easiest to search in your email account for the phrase "Results for Using Sociological Abstracts" to find your email confirmation.
3. You are ready! Click on the link above to start the tutorial. Follow the instructions on the left hand of the screen and, as directed, complete activities in the main screen.
Welcome to a quick tutorial on attribution and citation in American Sociological Association Style (7th edition) for Sociology. This tutorial is a brief introduction to the practices of attribution, citation, in ASA style. It should take you approximately 15 minutes.
This tutorial is intended as an introduction to ASA style only. ASA style is more fully explained in the ASA Style Guide, which you can find via UC Merced Library Search:
American Sociological Association Style Guide, 7th Ed. by As a result of completing this tutorial, you should be able to:
You will receive feedback on the interactive questions as you go through the tutorial. After receiving feedback, you will have to click "Next Slide" button a second time to advance to the next screen. We hope this tutorial helps you become more familiar with these topics!
Ensure that you have set-up your VPN connection in order to access library resources from off-campus location.
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