Resources+and+References

Use this page to keep track of the resources that you are reviewing about your topic.

Remember, in your final product, I'm going to want each team to **//list the sources that you actually used in your presentation//**. (You may have reviewed a lot of different materials, which you can list on this wiki page, but for your presentation, you'll only include the actual sources used.)

While your Team Project is not going to produce an academic research paper, **//you are conducting academic research of a topic//**. Once of the features of academic work is citing your sources. When others look at your work (your instructor or classmates), they should be able to track down the information you used. This way we can verify your work or we can determine if, by looking at your sources, we'd come to the same conclusions. Providing information about your reference material also helps students avoid **//plagiarism//** (presenting someone else's ideas as your own). Plagiarism is a major violation of the standard of academic honesty in college (you can get in big trouble for it).

I want you to list your sources at the end of your presentation. Since this is a psychology class, your citations should be formatted using American Psychological Association (APA) format. This won't be a major chore unless you are using lots of sources. You can find out how to format your reference material in APA format from a number of sources. One online source I recommend is the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University:

[] Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on 'Reference List' for the type of document you are listing as a source: book, article, electronic sources (including web pages).