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"When faced with a flood of information, misinformation, and conflicting sources, how do you know what to trust?”
-- Book Review: Printer’s Error: Irreverent Stories From Book History
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This Research Guide provides information about library resources available to Franklin University students who are seeking their M.A. in Criminal Justice Administration.
It includes the following information will help you conduct research:
Additionally, you can find information on
For more information about using library resources to conduct library research as you pursue your degree, view the videos below. You can also scroll down to find information to help you with criminal justice writing and graduate student writing.
The Graduate Student Academic Writing Guide was created specifically for graduate students as a step-by-step overview of the research writing process.
It contains sections on how to
It also provides writing tips and resources, as well as resources for preparing an annotated bibliography and conducting a literature review.
Communications and Report Writing for Law Enforcement Professionals by
This book introduces students to writing and communicating in law enforcement by clearly explaining the essentials of note taking and report writing.
Write and Wrong by
Teaches students how to navigate discipline-specific databases to find academic sources, and how to determine whether sources are academic and on-point. Teaches students how to avoid committing plagiarism. Includes in-class exercises designed to help students to recognize plagiarism and to correctly paraphrase information and statistics. Contains reference guides for at-a-glance rules to follow to avoid committing plagiarism, commonly used transition words and phrases, common grammatical and mechanical rules to follow, and common grammatical and mechanical errors to avoid. Includes in-class exercises designed to encourage students to practice writing topic sentences, choose correct transition words for a sentence, and recognize and correct in-text grammatical and mechanical errors. Covers the fundamental elements of APA citing style and demonstrates to students how to correctly create a reference list and properly include citations in the text. Includes in-class exercises designed to allow students to recognize and correct in-text APA errors and APA reference list errors.
