Understanding Your Assignment
Before you begin looking for information you should make sure you understand your assignment. Some good questions are:
Your professor is your best resource to answer these questions.
Community policing is a tool for establishing a police-community partnership to aid in identifying, prioritizing, and resolving crime problems and maintaining order. It involves a collaboration of police, community residents, and corporations in fostering trust, respect, and collaboration between police officers and citizens. (Crime and Punishment In America: An Encyclopedia of Trends and Controversies in the Justice System)
Writing an argumenative paper on a controversial issue requires that you look at both sides of an issue and take a position on one side or the other. You not only take a stand on an issue, but you must defend it against opposing points of view. Therefore, your argumentative research paper will involve advocacy and persuasion.
What to do:
Breaking Down The Research Process
The following outline gives a simple and effective strategy for finding information for a research paper and documenting the sources you find. Depending on your topic and your familiarity with the library, you may need to rearrange or recycle these steps. Adapt this outline to your needs. We are ready to help you at every step in your research.
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