1. Is the source published by a scholarly association or society, or a university, or a recognizedscholarly publisher? If it is not one of these, then it may not be a scholarly source. Mostwebsites are not scholarly – for example Wikipedia, ask.com, or other ‘crowd sourced’informational websites should not be used.2. Are the articles reviewed in some way? You may well find a statement in the masthead of thearticle, or on the website about reviewing policy. If the articles are sent out to “peers”, or othermembers in a field, for anonymous review, that’s a good indication that the source is scholarly.3. What are the articles like? Are they written for an academic audience, or for a popularaudience? How do they use evidence or support? Are the citations clear and abundant?You can find articles using the criteria above, or you can just follow the directions below, whichwill take you to dozen of journals that are acceptable.Directions – Research and Reading:1) Go to https://www.cypresscollege.edu/academics/divisions-specialprograms/librarylrc/library/ and click on Find-Articles. Under ‘147 Data Bases Found’you’ll see EBSCOHost. Click that and log in using your student # and your last name2) On that page, you’ll see that Academic Search Premier and MasterFILE Premier arealready checked. Click Continue.3) Under ‘Limit Your Results’, make sure Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals is checked.Make sure PDF Full Text is checked. Under Document Type make sure Article is checked.Make sure under Published Date, you enter January 20104) Enter a search term that you’re interested in from class and review what it finds for you.Suitable articles present archaeological or anthropological research, are more than 10pages in length, and have been published since 2010. I followed these directions andentered ‘northwest coast peoples’ and found several good articles. You can enterwhatever you find interesting from class though, and the articles don’t have to be aboutthe same topic.5) When you think you’ve found a good article, read the article, taking notes on it andlooking for ways to link your article to ideas presented in classDirections – Approval (20 points):1) When you’ve read through some articles and think you have two good ones, send thepdfs of the articles to me via e-mail, along with a couple of sentences about why youthink the articles relate to topics from class.2) You must have two articles sent to me for approval by noon on Monday April 20th.Having two articles to me by the 20th earns you 10 points toward your assignment.When I approve the two articles, you earn another 10 points on the assignment (for a total of 10 pts for each article). If I reject one or both articles, you’ll need to find newones to send to me. Articles for your assignment must be approved by me by noon onMonday April 27th in order to earn the full 20 points.Directions – Writing (80 points):1) Bibliography. Write bibliographic information for the article in the citation style for MLA(Modern language Association, APA (American Psychological Association) or SAA(Society for American Archaeology) style. There are tons of websites out there to helpyou with this. For SAA style, go go saa.org, then click ‘About the Society’ and findPublications from the drop down menu, hover over that and you’ll see Style Guide.2) Summarize: What is the point of this article? What are the main arguments? Whattopics are covered? If someone asked what this article/book is about, what would yousay? How are the main arguments supported by research and data? The summaryshould be about half of an annotation – between 500 and 600 words for each article.3) Evaluate: How does this source reflect, build on, or contradict what you already knowfrom class? Is there material in your textbook that you can use to interpret the author’sapproach? In this portion of your bibliography, you’ll be making links between what thesource says and the Neusius textbook, the Oswalt book, my lectures, and the moviesyou’ve seen.
