APA Style is a standardized writing format, established by the American Psychological Association, which you may need to follow when submitting projects or papers. If you have questions about APA formatting, look at our APA Style Guide.
Evaluating Sources
"When faced with a flood of information, misinformation, and conflicting sources, how do you know what to trust?”
Need help finding good sources of information? Our Evaluating Sources Guide provides tools and strategies for finding and evaluating sources.
About this Research Guide
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:
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:
Write and Wrong by Caroline W. Ferree; Heather PfeiferTeaches 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.