Wk5-Journal: Notetaking and Avoiding Unintentional Plagiarism
Taking notes & avoiding unintentional plagiarism is addressed in Pan, Chapter 6 and summarized in the Checklist #6 on p. 127. Which points do you find particularly helpful regarding notetaking as you sift through the literature? What is your biggest learning about unintentional plagiarism and how to avoid it?
Journal Assignments 1-7: Journals for the Literature Review
Journals for Literature Review are found in Modules 1-7. Select a topic for the literature review from the course readings that expand your research interests already in progress in your Graduate Repository. The weekly journals are personal interactions with the Pan Book to support your understanding of how to create a literature review.
Unlike Discussion Boards, your academic journal entries will not require citations. The rationale for the design of these journal entries is intended for you to discuss and share with your professor your efforts to identify a research topic from course readings, gain sufficient knowledge of the topic through selecting pertinent research, search the literature and build an outline that reflects the critical components of your topic through formulating subheads on what you discovered the literature is saying about your topic that will result in creating a strong literature review. In short, you will learn the rules of academic writing.
As doctoral students, this process will give you the tools to build your literature review for the major assignment in this course. This process will also prepare you to craft a literature review for your dissertation which is the most important foundational piece of your original work. In each journal entry, a new step in the process of creating your literature review will be discussed each week. After writing your journal responses, your professor will offer personal feedback and individual guidance in the comment section. Journal topics are discussed in each of the Modules.only used the provided reference
Pan, M,L, (2017). Preparing Literature Reviews (5th edition). Routledge Publishing. ISBN 978-1-936-52339-9
