Using The Thesis Statement You Previously Drafted, Locate Four (4) Academic Sources For Your Paper

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).

• Two (2) sources should describe the policy, its purpose, goal(s), background/history, and origins.
• One (1) source should address the specific problem/issue the policy is designed to address/remedy.
• 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: Introduction/literature review, method/methodology, sample/participants, procedure, data/results/findings, discussion/conclusion.

Part 2

In a word document, provide the following information:

• Your selected policy/topic
• Your thesis statement

Then, for each of the four (4) academic sources include the following: 

• 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, Source 1 purpose/history; law review article. Source 4 empirical research study; peer reviewed journal article. 
  • Then, list the following information for each source:
    1. Author(s)
    2. Publication year/date
    3. Article title/book title
    4. Journal name/publisher
    5. Volume and issue number (if applicable)
    6. Page numbers (if applicable)
    7. Library database or webpage where source was obtained
    8. URL or link to source
    9. Abstract – Copy the abstract from the source into the word document
    10. 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.

Grading

Assignments will be graded using the rubric included below. Please note the following:

• Each grading criterion (per source) is graded out of 5 possible points.
• There are five (5) grading criteria for each source making the maximum points per source 25 points.
• Points will be deducted from a source criterion if components of the assignment/required criterion are missing.