Introduction to Reading, Evaluating & Citing Scholarly Research

Assignment Goals Students will be able to: -identify scholarly research sources -read and understand scholarly research sources -evaluate and summarize scholarly research sources -cite scholarly research sources in an Annotated Bibliography

Purpose of Assignment Prepare for 12th grade English with focus on research writing (first assignment of next year) Prepare for college, majority of assessments are research papers (across disciplines, not necessarily related to literature)

Defining Scholarly Research Sources A scholarly source is written by scholars or professionals who are experts in their fields and are reviewed before publication. Scholarly sources also contain specific, credible, accurate, and reliable information. Wikipedia and similar sources are NOT an example of a scholarly source because it is community-edited and can be changed by anyone who may not be an expert in his/her field. Sources used in research writing generally do NOT include news articles, rather articles from scholarly journal publications (American Psychology Journal, Journal of Social Sciences)

Identifying Scholarly Research Sources Scholarly research sources are different from news sources such as newspaper or magazine articles News articles are published with the purpose of reaching a wide audience at an easy reading level Characteristics of Scholarly Research Sources: Long, complex vocabulary, different sections, often studies, contain many references

Quiz Identify the scholarly source based on the descriptions of the two articles below: Article 1: From Washington Post, 2 pages long, no references Article 2: From American Journal of Psychology, 30 pages long, multiple editors, 40 references, different sub-headings (abstract, results, conclusion)

Places to Find Scholarly Research Sources -Google Scholar -KPHS Virtual Library (go to kingphilip.org, click on high school up at the top, click “departments” on left-hand panel, click library, and click “KPHS Virtual Library”) -Jstor.org -www.eric.com (education and psychology related) -www.oxfordjournals.org

Reading Scholarly Sources Scholarly journal research usually broken into sections Identify which parts of the source are going to be most important to your paper Because scholarly sources are typically studies, there are sections heavily based on data and the methods used to gather information What will generally be most useful to you is the background, discussion, results, and conclusion section Other sections should be skimmed

Reading Scholarly Sources Always keep in mind your general thesis you would be using the scholarly research to defend While reading, highlight/underline/annotate the parts you will likely use in your writing *Although we will not be actually writing a research assignment for this unit, you will be asked to describe how you would use an article to defend a given thesis as part of your Annotated Bibliography

Works Cited/Annotated Bibliography Rules for the Works Cited/Annotated Bibliography page must be followed EXACTLY. Uniformly double spaced Alphabetical Order Works Cited OR Annotated Bibliography should be written at the top in the same 12 point, Times New Roman font as the rest of the page (Works Cited is for when you are simply listing sources, Annotated Bibliography is for when you have to explain how you used your sources) If a citation goes to the second line, the second line and every line after is indented Citations must follow format exactly…punctuation matters