FINDING ACADEMIC ARTICLES VIA THE ECU LIBRARY

Step 1: Go to the “Library” link at the bottom of the ECU homepage (scroll all the way down—on the lower right side)

Step 2: Choose “Articles” and type your search terms in the box; this will give you access to thousands of academic journals rather than performing random web searches

Step 3: If I type “wearing the veil” I will get a number of articles, one of which is “The Influence of Social Networking Technologies on Female Religious Veil-Wearing Behavior in Iran” by Young, Shakiba, etc. I can access the PDF of this article for free, as well as examine the abstract, save or print the article, and learn how to cite it. Other search terms for this paper might be “Native American traditions,” “loss of traditional cultures,” “whaling in Alaska,” “chiefing in Native cultures,” “taboos in foreign cultures,” “cultural faux pas,” “adapting to foreign cultures,” “Americans in China,” “Americans in Islamic countries,’ etc.

Citing the Article in Your Paper

After skimming the article, I found this interesting passage: “Results suggest that use of Facebook can affect Iranian women’s perceptions about and likelihood of engaging in a traditional Iranian religious behavior—the wearing of a head veil. These findings support research suggesting that social media users value personal identity, individualism, and avoiding traditional factors such as religion and culture” (319).

When using this in my paper, I would say: In the 2014 article “The Influence of Social Networking Technologies on Female Religious Veil-Wearing Behavior in Iran,” the authors point out that “the use of Facebook can affect Iranian women’s perceptions about and likelihood of engaging in a traditional Iranian religious behavior—the wearing of a head veil. These findings support research suggesting that social media users value personal identity, individualism, and avoiding traditional factors such as religion and culture” (Young 319). [Be sure to respond to the quotation in your paper!]

WORKS CITED: To cite an article found on-line, you list all the basics: author, article, source, and where you accessed it from. If you use EBSCO, you can click on the “Cite” link and it does it for you (scroll down to the MLA option):

Young, Sean D., et al. “The Influence of Social Networking Technologies on Female

            Religious Veil-Wearing Behavior in Iran.” CyberPsychology, Behavior & Social

            Networking, vol. 17, no. 5, May 2014, pp. 317–321. EBSCOhost,

            doi:10.1089/cyber.2013.0338

For more information about citation in papers, please visit the Purdue On-Line Writing Lab, or the Purdue OWL, at this address: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/purdue_owl.html [click on MLA Guide under Suggested Resources on the bottom left-hand corner]