The purpose of this assignment is to ensure that you have made significant progress on the research for your project.
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Description
Summary
Research Report Assignment
Due: Summary Research Report must be
uploaded to Blackboard by March 13th at 11:59 pm
Weight: Assignment is worth 10% of your final
mark.
Purpose
The purpose
of this assignment is to ensure that you have made significant progress on the
research for your project. The Summary Research Report will be an annotated bibliography in APA format,
and it will capture a preliminary understanding of the research that you have
completed so far.
Please note
that the APA Reference Page entries
can/should be reused for your formal report’s Reference Page.
Format
The Summary
Research Report will feature the following structure: you will list at least eight to ten (8-10) sources, written in
their APA Reference Page entry
format, and each entry will be followed by a brief summary (100-200
words) of the main ideas of the source. Make sure that the summaries are
well-paraphrased, and that you do not use quotes or the original text. In other
words, the summaries should be in your
own words.
In each
summary, you will include the correct in-text
citation. The sources can be print, electronic or in-person, but they will
be appropriate and relevant. In other words, they should follow the guidelines
mentioned in our library session. If you have any questions or concerns about the validity of your sources, please
check with me first.
Follow the formatting for APA References Pages. If
you have forgotten, the OWL Purdue website and the Seneca APA website have some
examples. Please note: most of the
samples on the Internet do not include an APA in-text citation in the summary;
you will need to include an APA in-text citation in each summary so that I can
ensure that you know how to do it. Consult the attached rubric for further
details.
Please note that any plagiarism can
result in a mark of 0%.
Summary Research Report Rubric (Value: 10% of Final Mark)
VG = Very Good: it
was completed, and it was done very well
ME = Meets
Expectations: It was completed, and it is competent.
NI = Needs
Improvement: it’s getting there, but needs further work
IN = Incomplete or
missing: component is not included.
Sources /10
Are eight to
ten relevant sources listed? IN NI ME VG
Are the sources
credible? IN NI ME VG
Summaries /50
Is each source
followed by a summary of the source of approximately 100-200 words? IN NI ME VG
Does
each summary provide an objective overview of what the source is about?
Are the main ideas from each source captured?
IN NI ME VG
Do
the summaries avoid inessential details and opinion? IN NI ME VG
Are
the summaries well-paraphrased/avoid quotes? IN NI ME VG
Is the grammar and punctuation
of the summaries generally correct?
IN NI ME VG
APA Citations / Reference Entries /40
Is each source
written in its correct APA Reference Page entry format?
IN NI ME VG
Is there a
correct APA in-text citation in each summary? IN NI ME VG
Total: = %
