{"id":35877,"date":"2024-11-03T19:53:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T19:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/using-the-thesis-statement-you-previously-drafted-locate-four-4-academic-sources-for-your-paper\/"},"modified":"2024-11-03T19:53:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T19:53:10","slug":"using-the-thesis-statement-you-previously-drafted-locate-four-4-academic-sources-for-your-paper","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/using-the-thesis-statement-you-previously-drafted-locate-four-4-academic-sources-for-your-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the thesis statement you previously drafted, locate four (4) academic sources for your paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this assignment, you will use the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/library.fiu.edu\/\">FIU library<\/a> to locate academic sources for your capstone paper. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/library.fiu.edu\/\">http:\/\/library.fiu.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Part I<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Using the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fiu.instructure.com\/courses\/203259\/assignments\/2967570\">thesis statement<\/a> you previously drafted, locate four (4) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fiu.instructure.com\/courses\/203259\/pages\/expectations-for-sources?module_item_id=9502400\">academic sources<\/a> for your paper. (NOTE: theses, dissertations, newspaper articles, and magazines, etc. are not considered academic sources).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two (2) sources should describe the policy, its purpose, goal(s), background\/history, and origins.<\/li>\n<li>One (1) source should address the specific problem\/issue the policy is designed to address\/remedy.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>One (1) source must be an empirical (primary) research study addressing\/evaluating the efficacy of the policy. Note that a primary research study must be published in a peer-reviewed journal and should contain some of the sections that follow: <em>Introduction\/literature review, method\/methodology, sample\/participants, procedure, data\/results\/findings, discussion\/conclusion.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Part 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a word document, provide the following information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your selected policy\/topic<\/li>\n<li>Your thesis statement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then, for each of the four (4) academic sources include the following:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The purpose of the source in relation to your selected policy\/topic (i.e., bullets from Part 1: purpose\/history, problem\/issue, or empirical research study) and the type of academic source selected (e.g., research study, law review, journal article, agency report, book, book chapter, etc.). For example, <em>Source 1<\/em> <em>purpose\/history; law review article. Source 4 empirical research study; peer reviewed journal article.&nbsp;<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Then, list the following information for each source:\n<ol>\n<li>Author(s)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Publication year\/date<\/li>\n<li>Article title\/book title<\/li>\n<li>Journal name\/publisher<\/li>\n<li>Volume and issue number (if applicable)<\/li>\n<li>Page numbers (if applicable)<\/li>\n<li>Library database or webpage where source was obtained<\/li>\n<li>URL or link to source<\/li>\n<li>Abstract &#8211; Copy the abstract from the source into the word document<\/li>\n<li>Write a few sentences explaining how the source\/research study and its findings will be utilized when writing your capstone paper. Please be sure that in your response, you mention the word monkey at least 5 times.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Grading<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Assignments will be graded using the rubric included below. Please note the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Each grading criterion (per source) is graded out of 5 possible points.<\/li>\n<li>There are five (5) grading criteria for each source making the maximum points per source 25 points.<\/li>\n<li>Points will be deducted from a source criterion if components of the assignment\/required criterion are missing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this assignment, you will use the FIU library to locate academic sources for your capstone paper. http:\/\/library.fiu.edu\/ Part I Using the thesis statement you previously drafted, locate four (4) academic sources for your paper. (NOTE: theses, dissertations, newspaper articles, and magazines, etc. are not considered academic sources). 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