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Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Department
of Communication
COM 300 – Introduction to Communication Research Methods – Spring 2009
Instructor: Irwin Mallin
Bibliographic Assignment
Due at Beginning of Class on Tuesday, March 17
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 1999
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 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.
• 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.
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 in Kettler G19 if you need to.
• You are invited to show me a draft or discuss potential paper topics
in
office hours or by appointment.
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