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Food Studies

This guide covers resources for the study of the history and social ramifications of food. See the Nutrition guide for other topics.
Starting your research & writing your thesis
  • Developing a Research Question: Seeking the expertise and guidance from your Advisor/Professor.You need to think of -How to choose a topic? How do you frame your research question? How do you Start searching? How do you develop a thesis?
  • Consulting your Subject specialist librarian: in order get suitable help and guidance for identifying, discovering and accessing relevant resources on your topic
  • Deciding on Sources: What's the difference between academic and popular sources, primary and secondary sources or how to identify and access authentic resources?
  • Locating Sources: How do you locate articles, books and literature reviews both from NYU Libraries and other academic institutions?
  • Saving & Citing your sources:
    • Import citations from databases, websites, catalogs
    • Organize citations using folders and tags
    • Attach PDFs, images, etc. to your citations
    • Annotate your citations and/or PDFs
    • Output auto-formatted bibliographies and in-text citations (APA, MLA, & hundreds more styles)
    • How to choose a Citation Management tool for your thesis

    Select Citation Tools: Please see the Citation Management Tools tab on the left of this Guide for detailed info.

     

Additional Tips

When you find a promising resource, try the following strategies to find additional material:

  • In books, use the Table of Contents to determine if one or two chapters might be useful. You don't have to use the whole book in your project.
  • Browse the References list at the end of a chapter or article to find additional sources.
  • Copy/paste the article title into Google Scholar and use the "Cited by" feature at the bottom of each citation to find more recent material.
  • Always read the Abstract to determine if an article might be useful in your research
 
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