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Check My Assignment!Length:400-600 words. 4-6 entries; about 60-120 words per sourcePurpose/goals of the assignment: develop your ability to conduct scholarly research and relate the results of this research to a specificinquiry develop your ability to translate specialist information into non-specialist language draft building blocks for the final report practice APA citation style (or MLA if you are majoring in a humanities field)Assignment Introduction:Answering a research question involves seeking out and processing information that helps you answerthat question. This is true whether you are researching insurance plans or conducting academic research.In developing the Library Research Report, you will seek out scholarly articles relevant to your researchquestion, extracting ideas from them that you will later synthesize into a final report (i.e., the final versionof your project) and an answer–however tentative–to your research question.On its face, the library research report may seem to resemble what is sometimes called an “annotatedbibliography.” Please note, however, that your goal in developing this report is not simply to summarizesources. As you write your summaries, you will be producing “building blocks” for the first draft of yourResearch Project . This means that you should be summarizing only content that is directly relevant to yourresearch question. Your writing should also be clear and accessible to non-specialist readers.A carefully constructed Library Research Report will significantly lighten your workload when you reachWeek 3, since you’ll be able to construct your draft from writing you’ve already completed rather thanproducing an entirely new document.Assignment SpecificationsYour finished Library Research Report should include: Your name at the top of the document. (You can follow strict APA if you’d like and include aseparate title page, but this is not required.) Your research question (at the top of the report) Complete and correct citations for 4-6 scholarly/peer-reviewed journal articles accessedthrough NU Library databases A 60-120 word paragraph on each source that answers the following questions:o WHO? Who stands behind the information? Your entry should identify (quickly andconcisely) the background/credentials that connect the article’s author/s to the topic.(See the Week 2 reading on identifying scholarly sources for guidance and examples:http://nu.adobeconnect.com/id-part2/ )o WHAT? Identify a claim (or claims) presented in the article that is relevant to your inquiry.(Remember, your task is not to summarize the entire article, but to summarize the articlecontent that is relevant for your own inquiry. In some cases, of course, the entire articlemay be directly relevant to your project.)o HOW? what support is presented for the claim? How do the authors back up the claim?(Don’t go nuts here and summarize every detail of the methodology. Instead, strive forthe kind of concise, general summary one might find in a news account of recent researchfindings.)o SO WHAT? What is the relevance of the claim for your inquiry? (Sometimes you’ll be ableto express the “what” and “so what” at the same time, in which case you shouldn’t try toartificially separate them. Just make sure that your paragraph addresses all of thecategories–WHO, WHAT, HOW, and SO WHAT? And remember that your answer to the“so what?” question should point to your own research inquiry.)Tip! If you’re having trouble getting started, tackle each of the above questions—Who/What/How/SoWhat? —one at a time. Before you know it, you’ll have written—or at leastsketched out–your first paragraph.**Limit your use of direct quotation**Quote only when you need to call attention to key terms or phrases.Use complete sentences, correct spelling and punctuation, etc.Please review the following Sample Library Research Report: http://nu.adobeconnect.com/sample-lib-rr/ – Sample Library Research Project PDFSource-selection checklist:This assignment requires you to engage with specialist sources–specifically, peer-reviewed journalarticles. If a source you’ve found is a peer-reviewed journal article, you should be able to answer “yes” toall of the questions below: CONTENTDoes the source read like a scholarly article? (If it sounds more like a news article or a review, it’sprobably not a scholarly article.) CITATIONS/REFERENCESDoes the article include in-text citations and end references? Is the Reference list fairly substantial(i.e., more than just a handful of citations)? CREDENTIALSIs the author’s institutional affiliation noted? (For example, does a university or government email address accompany the byline? Or is there a bio that explains the author’s area/s of expertise?) PEER-REVIEWEDIs the journal listed in Ulrichsweb as peer-reviewed? (For a review of how to use Ulrichsweb, seethe Journal Databases Activity. Remember that you search Ulrichsweb by journal title, not byarticle title.)Citation helpFeel free to use citation-generator tools such as those found in library databases; just remember to checkthese computer-generated citations carefully. Here is a short APA reference sheet you may find helpful: http://nu.adobeconnect.com/apa-ref – APA Reference PDFYou’ll notice that APA no longer requires that you identify the database from which you retrieved anarticle. It’s fine, though, if you want to include this information. (Some instructors still prefer to see thisinformation included.)If you are having trouble finding peer-reviewed sources relevant to your topic… Widen the lens. Remember, a “relevant” source is rarely a source on your exact topic. As noted inthe Journal Databases Activity and in this week’s video lecture on “The myth of the perfect source,”a relevant peer-reviewed source is any source that can help you bring a scholarly perspective toyour topic. Ask for help from an NU reference librarian: library.nu.edu Where appropriate, bring in one or two (1-2) in-depth, high-quality sources that are not peerreviewedjournal articles. For example, your searching may uncover an in-depth piece ofinvestigative reporting or a major government report that is relevant to your topic. For a review ofhow to distinguish between a regular news report and an in-depth news report, see the Week 1reading on news sources (specifically the sub-section titled “News sources sometimes offer original,in-depth reporting on a topic.”) For each source you include in your week-2 report that is not peerreviewed,take extra care to establish who stands behind the information and why the informationcan be regarded as reliable.
