Week+4+Initial+Bibliography

**Initial Bibliography** **Due: July 23, 2011**

Locate at least 4 research articles that are relevant to your research topic. For each, provide a complete correct citation, plus a sentence or two about why it is relevant for your topic. Looking ahead, you will need:
 * All of these articles need to be //research//, though a literature review might include non-research articles. A research article is one that contains actual data: look for a ‘method’ section which describes how the data was acquired.
 * If your topic is not a library topic, consult the instructor. This is not a good course to find out how to be a researcher in psychology, or biology, or history.
 * Relevant articles may be found in non-library journals.
 * Research articles //will// be peer-reviewed. (Some peer-reviewed articles are not research).
 * One article with quantitative data
 * One article with qualitative data
 * 4-10 articles for the Literature Review
 * Other articles possibly for the Final Project

**What makes an article relevant?** Research = contains empirical data Empirical = based on observations An article can be relevant for ANY of these reasons:

<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">1. It shows why the topic is **important.** <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Research articles provide empirical data about a problem’s size or urgency, or present one step and indicate that a next step is needed. <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">*Non-research articles indicate a stance, opinion or controversy. <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">//The absence of research on a topic can indicate that it is important.//

<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">2. It tells you (and others) what is already **known** about the question. <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Research articles will be about a part or element of your question; they will not match all elements of your question. <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">*Non-research articles indicate what is thought or assumed about your topic; they also may summarize other research: use their citations to go to that original research.

<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">3. It tells you what **might** be true about your question, and what needs to be tested. <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Research articles explore a situation that is parallel or comparable to elements of your question. <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">*Non-research articles say, in a memorable way, “Why haven’t we looked at X”?

<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">4. It shows that the **method** you propose can generate good data. <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Research articles have successfully used the method in comparable situations. <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">*Encyclopedia or review articles specifically examine the methodology itself.

<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">*Non-research articles can be used in a full literature review (the final project), but not for the initial literature review or for article analyses.

<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">__Example:__ <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">__Real life question__: Is doing a children-reading-to-dogs program in my library worth the time, effort, and cost? <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">__Research question__: Can reading to dogs help children improve their reading skills? <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">1. Importance: “<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Forty percent of low-income children are not reading by age 8.” (newspaper article: go to the data upon which it is based) “<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Correlation of reading ability with school drop-out rates.” (research article) <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">2. Known: “<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Relation of Time Spent Reading Aloud to Reading Skill Progression” “<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Performance Anxiety in Academically At-Risk Children” <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">3. Might: //if these are true, then so might dog-reading.// “<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Effect of Therapy Dog Sessions on Hospitalized Children’s Anxiety” “<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Children, Pets and Self-Esteem” <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">4. Method: “<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Use of the Short-Paragraph Test to Measure Reading Skills” “<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Parent Evaluation of Children’s Reading Abilities”

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