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SOC 250 Intro to Social Work

This research guide will assist students writing the Steiss SOC 250 Career Research Paper.

Finding Scholarly Sources for the SOC 250 Career Research Paper: Virtual Library Instruction

This interactive tutorial focuses on locating scholarly sources for the SOC 250 Career Research Paper. It takes about 30 minutes to complete and contains an optional completion certificate that can be emailed or uploaded to an assignment in your eLearning course shell, providing a credit/no credit grade.

This course covers the following topics:

  • What scholarly sources and peer reviewed articles are
  • Why you should use library databases to find scholarly articles
  • Accessing the SOC 250 Research Guide
  • Developing keywords using your research topic
  • Searching for peer-reviewed articles in OneSearch
  • Accessing eBooks
  • How to request an article from Interlibrary Loan
  • Contacting the library for help