For this class, several of your assignments require scholarly research as a core component of the project. This guide will provide suggestions of specific resources, databases, and library tools that will help you with the research process.
The proposal and annotated bibliography are designed to get you thinking about your critical thinking analysis early. You assignment description contains detailed instructions on how to compose your annotated bibliography. For this assignment, you must select at least one scholarly resource that you will use in your critical thinking assignment. You may also select one popular media article.
For your final assignment, you are to compose a 1000-1500 word research reflection that:
Using your annotated bibliography as a starting point, you must interact with at least one scholarly resource in the course of your research reflection.
When we use the terms scholarly resource, academic resource or peer-reviewed resource we are often talking about the same thing. Scholarly resources include books, ebooks, or scholarly (peer-reviewed) journal articles. Popular media resources include newspapers, magazines, films and movies, television shows, podcasts, and many of the free resources you find online. For all the sources you find, think critically about the information presented and how that information will help your analysis. A well researched paper draws from a number of different sources, so read widely and deeply. While Wikipedia can be a good place to get general background and help wrap your head around a topic, you are discouraged from directly referencing Wikipedia in any of your assignments. This is because it is difficult to determine exactly who has written or updated a Wikipedia article; to conduct proper research at the post-secondary level, it is important to know who is writing a resource, why they are writing it, and how they intend the resource to be used. For more information, see our guide here.
