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CRJ 215: Criminal Justice Technical and Report Writing (Lynn)

Resources for your annotated bibliography and research paper assignments

Reading Research Articles

This video provides tips for reading research articles, including:

  • Identifying the different parts of a research article
    • Abstract
    • Introduction
    • Methods
    • Results
    • Discussion
    • Conclusion
  • Suggested order of reading
    • General sections
    • Detailed sections

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Annotated Bibliographies

Literature Reviews

Avoiding Plagiarism

This video discusses plagiarism and how to avoid it when using and citing resources, including:

  • What is plagiarism?
  • How to properly cite your sources
  • Your ideas vs. other people's ideas
  • Context
  • Summarizing
  • Paraphrasing
  • Quoting
  • Writing resources for on-campus and virtual students

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  2. In Blackboard, create and name an Item (or any other Blackboard tool that includes the standard Text Editor) 
  3. Click the HTML button at the bottom right of the Tool Buttons to open the HTML editor 
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