Assignment instructions

This assignment is for CCJ6704 - Research Methods in Criminal Justice

Annotated Outline

Develop an outline for a literature review that is relevant to your topic you chose. Locate an appropriate number of independent and reliable sources on your topic. Identify the important parts of each source that you want to use in your literature review outline. Using these parts, annotate your outline (see exercise #3a below). Try to be as discursive as possible, being sure to include the origin of the source (i.e., author's last name and the year following the citation).

You must have at least 18 sources in APA format for this outline

Provide a title as well for the topic you choose

develop the outline from the intro, Body Paragraphs, and Conclusion.

This assignement intended to be 5 pages when its time to develop the outline afterward. Provide the outline that will cover 8 body paragraphs Intro and conclusion. in total 10 paragraphs.

(completely write down the introduction that can be half of the page and provide and outline for the introduction as well follow with outline for the 8 body paragraphs and the conclusion) Do not fully write the body paragraphs and the conclusion just the outline.

Exercise #3aBrainstorming the Literature Review Outline (Optional--but Useful) The overall objective of the literature review is to summarize the available research on a particular topic. Immediately after writing the introduction but before actively looking for the research on your topic you should create an outline for the literature review. This outline should represent your initial perception of how you would like to arrange information so that it communicates to the reader: What previous researchers have learned about a particular topic (what we know). What previous researchers have not learned about a particular topic (what we don't know). The issues previous researchers agree on. The issues previous researchers do not agree on. There are a number of effective outlining tools available. Some of these are even available online. You might even have a favorite outlining method, and if so, you should follow whatever method works for you. But, in case you don't, one of the most effective outlining strategies is sometimes called a bubble sheet. Here is how it works. 1. On a blank sheet of paper write down as many sections of your literature review you can think of. Sometimes it helps if you think about the controversies of your topic. You will likely want to include a section on the history of your topic. You might also want to include a section on the legal issues relating to your topic. At this point don't be overly concerned with how the outline will look in the end. Just allow your mind to wander and fill up the entire page even if you have to write sideways and in the margins. 2. Circle each item you have written down. These are the bubbles. 3. Draw lines to connect similar items. This will produce groups with similar topics. Eventually, these will become the sections and subsections of your outline. 4. Transfer the groups of similar items into a standard outline format. 5. Look over your new outline to see if it makes sense to you. Each of the sections should be distinct. For example, if you have one section on the 'history' of your topic and another section on the 'development' of your topic you might consider combining these two sections into a single section called 'history and development.' 6. At this point do not be concerned about a section having only one subsection. You likely learned in high school English that you are not supposed to do this. But, you are in college now and, besides, this is only a preliminary outline anyway.