- TOPIC- Racial discrimination in employment
- Resarch your topic, compile a list of references, annotate your references list, and organize and outline your essay.Some places to start researching include WikipediaChatGPT Google Scholar and the Marriott Library Another great place for advice on finding sources/references is this research guide from our communication librarian, Dale Larsen, at the Marriott Library. As a student you also can contact Dale directly to ask questions about research and finding useful materials through the library.
- Note that Wikipedia is not generally accepted as a credible/reliable source in academia. ChatGPT is currently unproven for credibility/reliability and raises a variety of ethical and potential legal issues.
- Wikipedia can be useful for getting a general sense of a topic and/or finding more suitable references by looking through their references list.
- ChatGPT can be useful for getting a general sense of a topic. Note that using ChatGPT to generate portions or all of your writing may be considered academic misconduct and possibly a copyright violation. Use with care.
You will need to include at least eight (8) sources directly related to the social issue/problem you chose. At least four (4) of those sources need to be from academic sources. Also, at least four (4) of those sources cannot be from our course readings/materials.
- "Academic sources" means from a book published by a university or other academic press (e.g., Oxford University Press, SAGE Publications) or from a peer-reviewed academic journal (e.g., Journal of Communication). Academic sources tend to have high credibility and reliability. Google Scholar and the Marriott Library will primarily provide academic sources.
- "Non-academic" sources can include news/magazine articles, YouTube videos, weblogs, etc. Non-academic sources are less credible/reliable. This does not mean that they are inherently faulty or should be avoided, only that we need to take additional skeptical caution when citing them.
Annotate every reference on your list. Annotations are your notes and thoughts about each reference, and might include relevant quotes (with citations), relevant paraphrases (with citations), your thoughts on how ideas from the reference connect with other references/the social issue/problem, and/or other notes to yourself that will help you structure and support your arguments.
Include a bullet-point outline of the main points you anticipate developing for your project.
Your outline should include the following items:
- Introduction
- Literature Review
- Analysis
- Contribution
- Conclusion
Each of these points should include a few additional points where you might briefly write out a thought, organize citations, expand a section (i.e., your analysis might have more than one category of analysis), etc.
Your annotations and outline do not need to represent a finished essay draft. However, you do need to submit a fully annotated references list and an outline that shows you have put some thought into organizing and developing your ideas.
Here is an example of an annotated bibliography.
NOTE: This example does not include a research question or outline.
FORMAT REQUIREMENTS
Double-space, use 1" margins, and use an appropriate font and size (e.g., Times New Roman 12pt, Arial 11pt).
Follow APA 7th edition styleLinks to an external site. for any citations/references you might include. For this phase, citations/references are not required unless you use another person's words (quote) or ideas (paraphrase).