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Creating a plan
Never tackled a big project like this before? Sage Research Methods is a JMU database that can help.
- SAGE Research Methods This link opens in a new windowProject Planner tool can help you think through the process of writing your honors thesis, from choosing a topic to writing up the results.
Review some samples from past JMU honors students
- JMU Scholarly Commons: Honors CollegeThis link will let you browse the thesis projects submitted by previous Honors students.
What are people writing about in your subject area?
Dr. Connolly mentioned looking at recent issues of the top journals in your major to get ideas for what topic to investigate in your thesis or capstone.
- How to: Finding influential journals in ScopusThis handout was created by the University of Sheffield. You must access JMU's subscription to Scopus using the link below.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowIndexing, abstracts, and citation searching for science and social science scholarly literature.