Once Dr. Cooley has approved of your topic choice for each of these two assignments, you should create keywords for each of those specific topics. Keywords, which will be your search terms, should not be too broad or too narrow. The purpose of keywords is to induce a database to return search results that are relevant for your search.
For this assignment, you must analyze the good and bad leadership traits of a particular person. Developing keywords for this assignment is a much simpler process. Select the name of your leader and the word leadership. So, for example, if you are researching Oscar Munoz, your keywords would be:
Should you add the words "good" and "bad"? This may work for specific people on the list that Dr. Cooley has provided. But it's more likely that you will look at news stories about the leader's decisions and make your own judgments.
Credo Reference is a database of reference books. It's a great place to begin many research tasks because the brief, concise articles in this database can teach you about your research topic before you explore more complex and detailed information sources about your topic. You can also use the articles in Credo Reference as sources of information for your research paper. The above video shows you how to search it.
Look down for a link to the database.
Most of the library's resources, including news articles, journal articles, videos, ebooks, and print books, can be searched through this single search portal. This video shows you how to use it.
This is our video that introduces APA documentation. I urge you to watch the entire video carefully before starting to write your paper or annotated bibliography. It is much easier to cite correctly as you go along, rather than try to fix your documentation after you have written your paper.
This is our complete APA guide, which goes into more detail about citing sources and formatting correctly.
It includes our sample paper. When you're writing a paper, you can model the formatting of your paper after this one.
If you are unsure how to set up the formatting in Microsoft Word so that it fits the requirements for APA formatting, you could instead download this blank Word document that has the formatting already set up for you.
