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Indiana University-Purdue University Fort
Wayne Department of Communication
COM 300 – Introduction to Communication Research Methods –
Spring 2012
Instructor: Irwin Mallin
Bibliographic Assignment
Brief Statement Due Thursday, February 16
Final Draft Due at Beginning of Class on Tuesday, February 28
There’s something about communication that made you decide to major
or minor or specialize in it. You’ve probably also picked up
some areas of interest in the COM courses you’ve already
taken. This is your opportunity to see what the published
research has to say about your area of interest within
communication.
For this assignment, you’ll do an annotated bibliography of three
sources – that is, three research articles – published since
2000 in scholarly journals on a question of interest to you in
communication. At least two of the sources (but preferably all
three) must have been published in one of the communication journals
listed on page 11 of Merrigan and Huston or on pages 10-11 of the Style Manual for Communication
Studies. One may be from scholarly journals not on
those lists. Use the Helmke Library handout entitled Is Your Journal Scholarly? to determine
whether a given periodical is a scholarly journal.
Picking the question
Think of the topic as a question about some aspect of communication
that you would like answered. So start by asking yourself
what aspects of communication or communication situations you
find particularly problematic or interesting. Then frame that
as a focused, specific question. You will use this question
and the articles you use here for later assignments in the course.
Preparing the annotated bibliography
• Prepare the annotations following the instructions for an
annotated bibliography on pages 25 and 26 of the Style Manual for Communication Studies
and the format of the sample annotated bibliography on pages 81-87
of the Style Manual.
• Write extended abstracts for each entry of 100-200 words
each. The extended abstract for each entry should contain the
information called for on page 26 of the Style Manual.
• Notice that there is a list of five things to include for
empirical studies and a list of four things to include for other
types of articles.
• The references for the articles should be done in APA style as
described on pages 60-70 of the Style
Manual.
• Your finished product should be grammatically correct, free of
spelling and punctuation errors. It should also be typed
(double spaced, with margins of 1" all around, and a font no larger
than 12) and stapled.
• Please keep a copy for yourself.
Things to avoid
• Do not choose as one
of your articles a convention paper (the terms EBSCO most commonly
uses for convention papers are "conference paper" and "conference
proceedings.")
• Do not choose as one of
your articles a book review or editor’s introduction.
• Do not choose as one of your articles an abstract of
another article, such as those appearing in Communication
Abstracts.
• Do not use the abstract for an article that is provided in
the article itself or by a database.
• Do not use the reference for an article provided by the
database.
• Do not choose as one of
your articles a convention paper (the terms EBSCO most commonly uses
for convention papers are "conference paper" and "conference
proceedings.")
• This is an individual assignment. Working with others is a
violation of academic integrity
Doing any of these things will result in a grade of zero
for this assignment.
Brief Statement of the
Bibliographic Assignment
On Thursday, February 16, you will turn in one page with the
following:
- one sentence about what links the three articles
- a proper APA citation for each article
Hints for success for this assignment
• Make sure you do everything called for in these directions.
• Don’t put this off! Start now, take your time, and
use the services of the Writing Center on the second floor of
Helmke Library if you need to.
• You are invited to show me a draft or discuss potential paper
topics in office hours or by appointment.
Denise Buhr is the subject librarian at Helmke Library assigned to
the Communication Department. You will find her helpful if you
run into challenges doing your research. To make an appointment,
e-mail her at buhrd "at" ipfw.edu or phone her at 481-5759
I will choose one of the three
articles for you to focus on for your next assignment. If
none of the three articles are acceptable, I will work with you to
find one that is.
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