Alan Anderson- APA Documentation Exercise

The APA documentation exercise allowed the class to practice writing our own sentences.  We then used action verbs for example, suggested, reported, and argued to portray what the author was talking about. Then we wrote the reference entry for the quotations.

Alan Anderson--Research Process

     I initially chose the research topic on interracial adoption because soley I found it to be intresting.  I am a sociology major and have had previous sociology classes such as sociology of the family along with contemporary issues.  Interracial adoption fits both of those categories so personally, I decided to seek the research topic out.  I have developed this topic from both sides of what people think.  There are the adopters, the adoptees, and the audience who may have there own opinions.  I will ask a general population who are relatively niave on the topic, they will take a survey from there own persepectives.  I will then survey and interview adoptees along with the parental adopters.  The survey will reflect with both expierences and the data collected with in turn answer the questions within the research topic.  If I were the population who have never in fact been interracially adopted or have been the parents of the adoptee, I am sure I would have a different stand on the topic.  I would assume that the children may be more distrcutive, harder to control, and less of a personal connection due to obvious biological characteristics. After reading sources I completely changed because most of the sources were from adoptees and adopters which in fact had postive expierences and gave statistics of them doing it again, and not having there childhood or childrearing expierence any other way.

Alan Anderson March 29th Exercise for paraphrasing

Many students end up with there final research papers consisting of to many quotations. Only 10% of your final copy should be roughly on direct quotes.  In conclusion your goal should be to minimize the size of percise quotations while note taking.  (Lester 1976)