Write & wrong: writing within criminal justice : student workbook

A comprehensive workbook that guides students through the entire process of writing an academic paper, by teaching them how to conduct library research, how to take notes without plagiarizing, how to cite in proper APA style, and how to complete a final draft of a paper--Cover.

"This workbook is designed specifically to help criminal justice students improve their research and writing skills. It can be used as a class text and as a reference guide for students to use outside class"--Page xi.

Unit 1. Introduction : Writing a paper: an overview : Academic writing: general rules ; The importance of good content and good presentation -- Library research: an overview : The research paper: primary versus secondary research ; Academic (scholarly) sources ; Identifying academic (scholarly) sources ; Nonacademic sources ; Rules to follow for selecting sources ; Suggested databases for library research -- two styles of papers : The analytical paper (informative paper) ; The argumentative paper (persuasive paper) -- Unit 2. Performing library research: an overview -- Getting started: research maps : Creating a research map -- Conducting criminal justice abstracts ; ProQuest criminal justice ; National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) ; Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) ; National Institute of Justice (NIJ) -- Unit 3. Plagiarism: a definition and an overview of the problem : Prevalence of plagiarism ; The three most common forms of plagiarism ; Why students plagiarize -- Rules of avoiding plagiarism : General rule ; Specific rules for avoiding plagiarism ; Review of actions that constitute plagiarism and cheating -- Paraphrasing material : Paraphrasing statistics ; Rew…