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.
To find articles for your persuasion speeches, you will need to access the library's databases. If you don't have recent experience with our library's databases, then I suggest first watching this introductory video.
The next video shows you how to search US Major Dailies, which is a database of articles from several US national newspapers. I suggest using to find information for both of your assignments.
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.
