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Student Research Guide Template: Top 10 Resources

This is the template for how students should create their research guides.

Top 10 Resources

DIRECTIONS: In this tab, list the 10 best scholarly sources that you found, in addition to the "Start Here" Foundational references listed on the Home page. List them alphabetically.  These sources should be either scholarly (a minimum of three scholarly articles are required) or substantive (examples include Wall Street Journal, Frontline, Slate, TED, etc.). 

You can organize them however you want  - all together in one box or within individual boxes- for example, by subtopic or by format (videos, books, research articles). Be sure to include your FULL CITATION in APA format and the ANNOTATION for each. The annotation should be a 2-3 sentence summary of the sources, with an explanation of why this source is authoritative and how it addresses your topic and specific research question or questions.

NOTE: Please do not repeat sources that you list on the "Start your research here" box on the front page of this guide.

EXAMPLE (NOTE: ANY LINK TO SVC DATABASE SOURCES SHOULD INCLUDE THE PERMALINK OR DOCUMENT URL THAT HAS skagit.idm.oclc.org):

"Climate Change". directed by Kate Conway. produced by Kate Conway. Pumpkin TV. 2014. Alexander Street video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/climate-change-2. 12/13/2019.

Add your annotation here. Summary of this article. I liked it for this topic because...

Edenhofer, O. (2014). Climate change 2014 : mitigation of climate change : Working Group III contribution to the Fifth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . New York, New York: Cambridge University Press.

Godlee, F. (2014). Climate change. BMJ : British Medical Journal (Online), 349 doi:https://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g5945

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