LPL 775: Statistics and Research: Getting Started

Begin your research by asking questions, such as:

• What is the experience of gender in Muslim women’s identity formation?
• What is the nature of the relationship between Muslim women’s identity and their pursuit of higher education?

To find answers to your questions, search for books, articles, and other types of information on the LWLC's website. Choose the most important words and/or phrases in your research question and connect them by using Boolean Operators.

Search Terms: muslim women AND gender AND identity

Notice the following:

• Your search terms appear at the top of the page.
• 874 results were found (745 articles and 43 books).
• The system expanded this search to include related terms. You can continue like this, or you can search only for muslim women AND gender AND identities.
• On the left side of the screen, you can see how many items are located at other libraries by selecting Libraries Worldwide.

Scrolling down the list of results, #3 looks promising. Read the summary or abstract, and click View full text to see more.

This article seems useful, so let's check the author's References to find additional useful sources of information.

This title sounds interesting:

Kaschak, Ellyn. 1992. Engendered Lives: A New Psychology of Women's Experience. Basic Books, Harper Collins. pp.90-91,87,106-111.

Let's search WorldCat Discovery to see if the LWLC has this book.

The LWLC has this book. You can tell by the call number that it is available and is located on the 4th floor of the library.

You can check out this book by visiting the LWLC with your student ID card. As a graduate student, you can check out up to 25 books at a time.