Week 8 - It's our last week!!!

For this last week, which is week 8, you will put all of your work together in a 2-3 page literature review. This work will analyze the sources you have selected to best represent your research question. Please do not just recycle your old papers. While it is ok to specifically select citations and their corresponding passages, I would prefer you select new material more closely aligned with your new research abilities. 
You are able to re-use up to four of your previous citations, but I would encourage new information and paragraphs not just reusing your all your old assignments.

Not a research paper. Focus on the main articles in your field and how they assist your work.  2-3 page literature review, double spaced.

Short for a reason focused on what has been done in the field, who is the top players are and what still needs to be done. (Badke, 2015).

What is the best work for the topic or issue?

The condensed style should help you to focus answer your question and prove to me as the instructor reader how the articles assisted to answer your final paper.

6 sources required three of which are journals. You can use up to four of your previous articles.

Cover page  - Running head: AMERICAS WAR ON TERROR       

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In the introduction you should:

a. define or identify the general topic, issue or area of concern

b. point out overall trends in what has already been published

c. establish your point of view for reviewing the literature [Include your research question!]

d. indicate the organization of the review

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II. Body In the body you should:

A. group research studies and other relevant literature according to a common theme [for example, you may find prevailing theories and/or practices involved with your research; you can use these as thematic sections for the body of your literature review]

B. summarize each item of the literature appropriately according to its significance

C. compare and evaluate each item of the literature

D. provide topic sentences at the beginning of paragraphs and summary sentences at the end of sections to help the reader understand what the main issues are

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III. Conclusion

In the conclusion you should:

a. summarize the literature maintaining the focus presented in the introduction

b. evaluate the current "state of the art" [or state of the topic that represents your research question] [by] pointing out gaps in the literature, inconsistencies and issues that are important for future study

c. conclude by giving some insight into the relationship between your topic and a larger area of study or area of professional practice

Week 7 Annotated Bibliographies

To make sure this week’s assignment is in the correct formatting, review the APA Annotated Bibliography sample provided by OWL Purdue. 
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/03/

Also a great source:
Creating APA Style Annotated Bibliographies, 6^th Ed. Bethel University
https://www.bethel.edu/library/research/apa-annobib-sixth.pdf
from this source: “An annotation is different from an abstract. It should have several sentences summarizing the main points or ideas found in the item. It should then include your own statement evaluating the quality of the item and/or relating the item to your own research topic.”

You should have a total of 6 total sources for your Annotated Bibliography,
Focus on these points for the week:

What have you found through your research?

•          What is the question your research has pointed you too?

•          3 of the 6 journals.

•          Up to 4 sources from previous assignments.

•          Research your articles? Something in the field authors point too?

With all that you have learned throughout this class you may have found new articles that better reflect your new research abilities or new materials that are more closely related to your topic. You should expand on your previous weeks and find two new articles or books more closely related with the research question. 

REMINDER: NO BULLET STYLE RESEARCH NOTES THIS WEEK! Your research notes should be written into the second half of your paragraph or break into a second paragraph. The start of each paragraph should be an overview of the document and why it was selected and the second paragraph your CRAAP research notes

Week 6 Open Access Journals

Here is a listing of the top Open Access Journals that you can use for this week 6.

Important to note that some articles may be abstracts and not the full and complete text. A citation or article may lead outside the database to another source that requires purchase. Email me if you have problems navigating to find an article related to your topic.

Also you may have a broad range of articles at your disposal numbering in the thousands or very few that are not relevant to your topic. These databases are not as fluid as Leatherby Libraries and the databases like Academic Search Premier.

Make sure you choose a database closer to your topic. For week 6 both DOAJ -Directory of Open Access Journals & OAJSE - Open Access Search Engine, are your best bet to find articles across multiple subjects.

OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES  

Open Access: This definition means researchers/students have means free, open, unrestricted access, to peer-reviewed and scholarly journals.

Core 
CORE (COnnecting REpositories) aims to facilitate free access to scholarly publications distributed across many systems. As of today, CORE gives you access to millions of scholarly articles aggregated from many Open Access repositories.

(DOAJ) - Directory of Open Access Journals 
Welcome to the Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

F1000Research
Open access journal in biology and medicine.

OAJSE 
Open Access Journals Search Engine.

PubMed 
PubMed is the publicly accessible version of MEDLINE developed by the National Library of Medicine. It contains citations from over 3,900 international biomedical journals. Journal coverage is provided from 1966 through the present. In most cases, an abstract is included with the citation.