Sociology: Starting Your Assignment

• What does your instructor want you to accomplish with this assignment?
• What topic(s) are you interested in?
• Which topics will fit the instructor's criteria as listed in the syllabus?
• How many scholarly/peer-reviewed sources will you need?
• Are you allowed to also use "other" online sources?
• Looking at the timeframe of the assignment, when should you start your research?
• Will you need any assistance in either a) doing research or b) writing/editing your paper?

A keyword list can help you to focus your topic AND gives you a great place to start when searching for books and journal articles!

• A keyword list is simply a group of terms related to your specific topic and/or within the field of early childhood education
• An example is listed below

family 

marriage 

kinship

custom

status