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Write & Wrong: Writing Within Criminal Justice: A Student Workbook

Author(s): Caroline W. Ferree, JD, MS, University of Baltimore
Heather Pfeifer, PhD, University of Baltimore
Details:
  • ISBN-13: 9781449626815
  • ISBN-10:1449626815
  • Spiral/paperback    150 pages      © 2013
  • Will Publish: 8/1/2012
Price: International Sales $44.95 US List
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Overview

Written reports and other types of writings by criminal justice and social science professionals can directly affect people's lives.  Thus,  it is crucial for the writer to effectively convey his or her message in a coherent and organized manner. Write & Wrong: Writing Within Criminal Justice: A Student Workbook aims to improve undergraduate students' writing quality through hands-on writing exercises and reference guides.  This comprehensive workbook guides the reader through the entire writing process and teaches them how to conduct library research, how to take notes without plagiarizing, and how to complete a  final draft; also included is a chapter with discussions on preparing students for the job market.
 

An Instructor’s Manual (978-1-4496-2682-2) is available for adopting institutions and contains lectures corresponding to the chapters of the Student Workbook.  Every lecture includes detailed lesson plans, Notes to the Instructor, PowerPoint presentations, in-class exercises with answers, and reference guides.  Also contained in this in-depth teaching tool are a sample syllabus, grading rubrics, homework assignments with answers, and a mid-term exam with answers.

ShowKey Features

  • Teaches students how to navigate discipline-specific databases to find academic sources, and how to determine whether sources are academic and on-point.
  • Teaches students how to avoid committing plagiarism.  Includes in-class exercises designed to help students to recognize plagiarism and to correctly paraphrase information and statistics.
  • Contains reference guides for at-a-glance rules to follow to avoid committing plagiarism, commonly used transition words and phrases, common grammatical and mechanical rules to follow, and common grammatical and mechanical errors to avoid.
  • Includes in-class exercises designed to encourage students to practice writing topic sentences, choose correct transition words for a sentence, and recognize and correct in-text grammatical and mechanical errors.
  • Covers the fundamental elements of APA citing style and demonstrates to students how to correctly create a reference list and properly include citations in the text.
  • Includes in-class exercises designed to allow students to recognize and correct in-text APA errors and APA reference list errors.

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ShowTable of Contents

Chapter  1  Introduction
Chapter  2  Criminal Justice Library Research
Chapter  3  Plagiarism
Chapter  4  Organizing a Paper: From Note-Taking to Creating an Outline
Chapter  5  Mechanics of Writing: From the First Draft to the Final Paper
Chapter  6  Writing an Annotation
Chapter  7  Creating a Reference List in APA Style
Chapter  8  Citing in the Text in APA Style
Chapter  9  Preparing for the Job Market
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ShowAbout the Author(s)

Caroline W. Ferree, JD, MS-University of Baltimore

Caroline W. Ferree is an adjunct professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Baltimore. She received her J.D. from the University of Denver and her M.S. from the University of Baltimore.  She practiced law in Colorado and clerked for a judge on the Colorado Court of Appeals.  She has had two articles published in the Journal of Criminal Justice Education focusing on teaching research and writing to criminal justice students. Her research interests are issues in criminal justice education.   

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Heather Pfeifer, PhD-University of Baltimore

Heather L. Pfeifer is an associate professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Baltimore and serves as the director for the Masters in Science in Criminology program. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Criminal Justice from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and her Ph.D. in Criminology from the University of Maryland-College Park. She has had two articles published in the Journal of Criminal Justice Education focusing on teaching research and writing to criminal justice students. Her primary research interests center on criminal justice education and juvenile delinquency and victimization.

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ShowAppropriate Courses

This Student Workbook is ideal as a primary resource for undergraduate and graduate-level writing courses in criminal justice and social sciences. It is also the perfect supplement for a research methods course, and an introduction to criminal justice course.

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