Showing posts with label Articles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Articles. Show all posts

Monday, 10 March 2014

Compare and contrast the Articles of Confederation with the U.S. Constitution, showing the strengths and weaknesses of each.

What areas of importance will you stress in attempting to get it passed unanimously?
Give good well-reasoned arguments in a report of 400 words.

Friday, 14 February 2014

Application: Topics in Educational Psychology: Delving Deeper

Week 3: Writing Summary Drafts
This week, write a one-page summary of each of the articles you have chosen. Before you begin, review the Required and Optional Resources about scholarly writing and plagiarism, and consider ways to target your writing for improvement.
Submit your one-page summaries to your instructor for feedback. (Note: You will be required to incorporate this feedback into the final versions of your article citations and summaries, which are due in Week 6 of this course

Wednesday, 22 January 2014

An APA-formatted reference list/ Annotated Bibliography

Prepare the following for this part of the assignment.

An APA-formatted reference list entry for each of the eight articles that you have found.

A one-paragraph summary, following Creswell's guidelines, of each article that you have found.

A brief rationale for the selection of each item. Within each rationale, identify any gaps in the knowledge or deficiencies that justify your research and whether not the article supports or detracts from existing research.

When you go through your introduction check on the follwing:

Make sure it is brief, direct and clearly stated. Don't try to get too much inoformation in the Introduction.

EXAMPLE: The importance of this study is to . . . ."

"The purpose of this study is to . . . ."

Does the Introduction identify a specfic problem.

Is the importance of the study stated directly?

Are underlying theories established?

Are logical transitions?

Are key terms defined?

Is a brief purpose statement given that clearly is derived from the background information?