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CM223Unit 7

USING EVIDENCE

UNIT 7 SEMINAR AGENDA

Welcome to our seventh seminar. In this session, we will:

Discuss the project for this unit

Review the parallels between using evidence in CJ and “academic” writing

Discover ways of integrating sources

Practice summarizing & paraphrasing

UNIT 7 PROJECT

This week you will be writing a first draft based on your chosen topics within the

following categories:

Gender Issues in Criminal JusticeTerrorism and Border Control

Criminal Justice and Technology

Please look under Unit 7 Project, to see the complete requirements.What concerns you most about this paper? Other questions?What can I do to support you?

CJ VERSUS ACADEMIC WRITING

INTEGRATING EVIDENCE

PARAPHRASING & SUMMARIZING

EXAMPLES from p. 482 of Hacker, D. (2008) Rules for writers, 6e. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s.

EXAMPLES from p. 482 of Hacker, D. (2008) Rules for writers, 6e. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s.

Is This Plagiarized?

Original:

In everyday situations, behavior is determined by the combination of internal knowledge and external information and constraints. [From Norman, D.A. (1988). The Psychology of everyday things. New York: NY: Basic Books.]

According to Norman (1988), in everyday situations, behavior is determined by the combination of internal knowledge and external information and constraints (p. 55).

Is This Plagiarized?

Original:

In everyday situations, behavior is determined by the combination of internal knowledge and external information and constraints. [From Norman, D.A. (1988). The Psychology of everyday things. New York: NY: Basic Books.]

Norman (1988) has observed that “behavior is determined by the combination of internal knowledge and external information and constraints” (p.55).

Is This Plagiarized?

Original:

People routinely capitalize on this fact. They can minimize the amount of material they must learn or the completeness, precision, accuracy, or depth of the learning. [From Norman, D.A. (1988). The Psychology of everyday things. New York: NY: Basic Books.]

Norman (1988) has pointed out that people try to reduce the amount of work they have to do to learn new information (p. 55).

Is This Plagiarized?

Original:

People routinely capitalize on this fact. They can minimize the amount of material they must learn or the completeness, precision, accuracy, or depth of the learning. [From Norman, D.A. (1988). The Psychology of everyday things. New York: NY: Basic Books.]

Norman (1988) has pointed out that people routinely minimize the amount of material they have to learn or they minimize the completeness, precision, accuracy, or depth of the learning (p.55).

Is This Plagiarized?

Original:

People routinely capitalize on this fact. They can minimize the amount of material they must learn or the completeness, precision, accuracy, or depth of the learning. [From Norman, D.A. (1988). The Psychology of everyday things. New York: NY: Basic Books.]

Norman (1988) has pointed out that people routinely minimize the amount of material they have to learn or they minimize the completeness, precision, accuracy, or depth of the learning (p.55).

References Page

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www.ganglife.edu/54/09/8

http.://people.howstuffworks.com/police-interrogation.htm

www.counterpunch.org/nader

http://psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/55/1/19

APA: SAMPLE REFERENCE PAGE

References Page

References

Barlow, M., &T. Clarke. (2003). Blue gold: The fight to stop the corporate theft of the world’s water. New York, NY: New Press

Pearce, F. (2004). Water: An imminent global crisis. Geographical, 76(8), 34-36. Retrieved from http://www.geographical.co.uk/

Retrieving an Article

Usually when you access an article from the Kaplan library, all of the information you need for your references page will be there:

• Title: Early intervention to prevent juvenile delinquency.

•  Authors: Zigler, Edward

• Source: Harvard Mental Health Letter; Sep94, Vol. 11 Issue 3, p5, 3p

•  Document Type: Article

•  Persistent link to this record (Permalink): http://search.ebscohost.com.kaplan.uah.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hxh&AN=9409230384&site=ehost-live

• **There is a place to click on HTML Full Text. This will bring up the article.

Conversion to APA Format

This is the way you would put that information into APA format:

• Author, year, article name, journal name, volume(issue), retrieved from…

Zigler, E., (1994). Early intervention to prevent juvenile delinquency. Harvard Mental Health Letter, 11(3), Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com.kaplan.uah.edu/login.aspx?dire ct=true&db=hxh&AN=9409230384&site=ehost-live