Departmental Guides to Research & Writing

Sociological and Anthropological Resources in Musselman Library
This guide is for both sociology and anthropology students. It offers an overview of how to find bibliographic materials in Musselman Library relevant to sociology and anthropology, with a list of relevant journals and hot links to MUSCAT and periodicals indexes. Click here to upload Word doc 

Basic Strategy for Library Research in Anthropology
This guide is for anthropology students. It shows them how to access library resources (reference materials, books, journal articles, and Internet resources) for research papers. It contains direct links to relevant databases available to Gettysburg students through Musselman Library. Click here

Department Style Sheet
This guide is for both anthropology and sociology students. It provides information on how to organize and present term papers. The department expects all students to adhere to these standards. Click here to upload Word doc

Writing a Research Proposal
This guide provides an overview on how to organize a formal research proposal. Click here to upload PDF file

Anthropology Citation Conventions
This guide is for anthropology students. It explains how anthropologists cite sources in their texts and format bibliographies. Click here to upload PDF file

Sociology Citation Conventions
This guide is for sociology students. It explains how sociologists cite sources in their texts and format bibliographies. Click here to upload Word doc

Guides to Audio Recording
All sociology and anthropology students are encouraged to use IT's (Information Technology's) collection of digital recorders, along with the Transcriber program that is available on co-lab computers for transcribing interviews. This link provides you with information on what these resources are, how to access them, and how to use them (including printable guides). UNDER CONSTRUCTION

The Gettysburg Honor Code
All sociology and anthropology students must adhere to the Gettysburg Honor Code. For a refresher on our college's standards for academic integrity, click here.

Avoiding Plagiarism
A) A website from the University of Victoria called "Acknowledging Your Sources" discusses plagiarism and how to avoid it through proper citations.  Other useful sites discuss paraphrasing and summarizing and using evidence from published sources. Click here

B) Another useful website on plagiarism, "Plagiarism in Colleges in U.S.A.," explains what plagiarism is and why it constitutes fraud that violates copyright laws. Click here

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources
Before using information from the Internet for your term paper, did you ever pause to wonder if it's reliable?  Check out this set of criteria for evaluating Internet resources, with hotlinks to examples of pages that pass or fail each criterion. Click here