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Research Paper Assignment 3: The Annotated Bibliography (20 points)

Research question is: Do felons of African-American race convicted of non-violent crime receive longer prison sentences than their White counterparts?

Students must evaluate and report on 6 sources related to your research question identified in Research Assignment 1. At least 4 these sources must be peer reviewed journals. You may use the article you analyzed for Assignment 2. Refer to the Resources area for info about peer reviewed journals, which are available in our online library. This should follow the basic outline of your Research Paper Assignment 2 when you analyzed a peer-reviewed article. Requirements for Assignment 3: For each of the 6 sources, complete the following information: 1. Provide citation of source in APA format 2. Identify the research question 3. Identify and describe the hypothesis 4. Describe the methodology briefly - sample size and characteristics? How was the data gathered? 5. Identify the main independent and dependent variables 6. Discuss the key findings 7. Close by describing how it relates to your research question These seven steps should be accomplished in a couple of paragraphs for each source - so at the end you should have approximately 12 paragraphs. Or, you can chose to use a table format that has cells for each of the seven requirements ... for each of the 6 sources. Papers must be in APA format with all sources properly cited.

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