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Resources and strategies that apply generally to ELPS research can be found in the Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Guide.
SAGE Research Methods provides information on writing a research question, conducting a literature review, choosing a research method, collecting and analyzing data, and writing up the findings. SAGE Research Methods’ coverage spans the full range of research methods used in the social and behavioral sciences, plus a wide range of methods commonly used in science, technology, medicine, and the humanities.
Looking at examples of other dissertations can be helpful. The following databases allow you to explore the full text of dissertations from other universities and from fellow CSUN students.
The Learning Resource Center in the University Library, 3rd floor, East Wing, offers a variety of helpful resources for graduate students, including individual consultations.
Citation Managers are bibliographic management programs that will help you keep track of articles and books as you find them, organize your references and create bibliographies in 100s of citation styles (e.g., APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, etc.)
They will also allow you to:
The most popular citation managers are EndNote and Zotero.
Details and comparisons are here.
Several CSUN librarians have extensive experience working with EndNote and can help answer specific questions:
Marcia Henry -- mhenry@csun.edu
Christina Mayberry -- christina.mayberry@csun.edu
Note: EndNote Basic (formerly known as EndNote Web) is the free online version of EndNote. It has limitations on storage and sharing. Get a detailed comparison
Apple has released macOS Catalina which affects EndNote users. Details about this change are available online from Clarivate Analytics
