Your
written assignment is intended to test your understanding of important concepts
and discover how to sharpen your intellectual skills of analysis, synthesis,
evaluation, and application. The intent of the written assignment is to provide
an opportunity to more fully describe, explain, and analyze the books and other
sources. Here are several resources that can help you successfully complete
written assignments:
Empire
State College’s Library and Research Resources
takes you to the online Library’s home page with links to many database
resources and other library services.
Empire
State College’s Online Writing
Center offers writing tips and assistance.
Research
Tips for Distance Learning Students offers
recommended online research resources.
Please read the SUNY Empire State College statement
on Academic
Integrity before submitting any
work for this course. Be sure to cite any and all sources correctly so that
your academic integrity is not called into question.
Research Tips
Don’t
wait until the night before your assignment is due to begin to search for
information such as journal articles, books, websites, etc. to support your
work in this course. The Empire State College’s Online Library can help you
locate much of the information you need.
Documenting Sources
In most social science classes, you will be asked to use the American
Psychological Association (APA) system for documenting sources. Documenting
means showing where you got source information that’s not your own. Remember, a
research paper blends your ideas with ideas and information from other sources.
Documentation shows the reader what ideas are yours and what information and
ideas you’ve taken from a source to support your point of view. For more
information, see APA’s (http://www.apa.org) website and consult the
organization’s style manual, the Publication Manual of the American
Psychological Association.
Link to ESC’s Writer’s Complex – Documenting
Sources http://www.esc.edu/esconline/across_esc/writerscomplex.nsf/3cc42a422514347a8525671d0049f395/b44bd96a6da3c83a852569d9006ea235?OpenDocument
Manuscript
Preparation
APA guidelines for formatting a paper are endorsed
by many instructors in the social sciences.
Link
to Diane Hacker’s Social Sciences: Documenting Sources at http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/social_sciences/manfor.html
Creating
APA In-Text Citations
APA recommends in-text citations that refer readers to a list of
references. An in-text citation names the author of the source (often in a
signal phrase), gives the date of publication, and at times includes a page
number in parentheses. At the end of the paper, a list of references provides
publication information about the source; the list is alphabetized by authors’
last names (or by titles for works without authors). There is a direct connection
between the in-text citation and the alphabetical listing.
Assembling
the APA Reference Page
Documenting sources at the end of the research paper consists of listing
all of the sources from which you quoted, paraphrased, or summarized. In APA
style, the sources in a paper are listed alphabetically on a separate page
headed References. It follows the final page of the text and is numbered.
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