Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
CCJ 380
The purpose of this assignment is for each student to demonstrate an understanding of the
research skills covered by the library instruction component of this class and to use your new
research methods skills to critically analyze scientific writing. You must use the Portland State
University library resources to locate the majority of your sources.
You are tasked with completing an annotated bibliography of 6 sources, all of which relate to a
topic of your choice. Sources may include: books, scholarly articles, government documents, and
web produced reports (as long as they are scholarly), and other peer-reviewed or rigorous
scientific report. You will need to include at least 3 peer-reviewed journal articles (this
includes law reviews). Feel free to use the bibliographies of other articles as jumping off points
for locating other scholarly articles.
One of the main points of this assignment is for you to demonstrate a grasp of APA (American
Psychological Association) format and that you understand the scope of the material appropriate
for scholarly research. Consult the American Psychological Associations Guide to Formatting
for correct citation style. There is a quick guide to APA format on the Library website or you
can find the full text in the library.
All work that is a source of the ideas presented—whether quoted, paraphrased, or summarized—
should be cited properly. To summarize is to condense the original into a sentence or two in your
own words; to paraphrase is to follow the original statement or passage more closely but still
restate it in your own words. In paraphrasing, do not use whole phrases, many of the same
words, or sentence structures similar to the original. To quote a source is to extract a word,
phrase, sentence, or passage from the original and insert it into the text. Quoted material should
be enclosed within double quotation marks or, if lengthy (longer than three typewritten lines),
indented as a block quote.
If you use another writer's words or ideas without citing the source, you have committed an act
of plagiarism. Work is plagiarized even if it is in your own words, but is not properly cited; a
good rule is that every paragraph in a proposal should have at least one citation. Very few ideas,
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if any, will be original.
Documentation of sources should be presented in two places: (1) in the text, to identify and
credit the source immediately following its use; and (2) following the text, in a list of references
with more detailed information about each source. Cite the source whose ideas and/or words you
are using. If you are citing work referenced or quoted by another author (and you do not have
access to or have not read the primary source), cite the original author "in" the work where you
found it; for example, (Rossi in Singleton and Straits1999).
TIPS
Don't confuse abstracts or summaries with annotations.
Abstracts are the purely descriptive summaries often found at the beginning of scholarly journal
articles or in periodical indexes.
Annotations are descriptive and critical; they expose the author's point of view, clarity and
appropriateness of expression, and authority.
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Suggestions for Writing Annotations (To help you think about the sources, not a
“requirement”)
Ease of use – Can a “real person” use this resource? What is the reading level
of the resource?