Week 8- Literary Review

When writing my 2 pages this week, I can see how all of these steps prepared me for this weeks assignment.  After doing the annotated bibliography last week, I knew which article gave me which portion of my research, based on my outline, which we also went through this week.  I was able to piece the paper together pretty easily since I already had the references set up per the annotated bibliography.  Placing the outline was a little different for me.  I usually place the pieces together in a different way, not as organized, but I still hope to be as coherent as if I had an outline.  I have learned certain things in this class that I definitely will be applying to future assignments.  I'm also glad to have accomplished this class at the beginning of my time at Brandman.  I think everyone should so they can apply what you learn from this and the Analytical Thinking course.  They taught me a lot to have a successful career as a student.

Annotated Bibliography

Upon finding the sources I needed for the Annotated Bibliography, it was a little more challenging.  I had to go back to the previous sites and refresh my memory of them.  Plus the new sites I looked at.  Most of the information out there on Laissez-Faire leadership is basically repeating each other.  As a matter of fact, most the information on all the different types of leadership styles, mirror each other.  It doesn't give me much room to elaborate.  I can compare and contrast a bit.  And ultimately, I've learned which leadership style I want to stay away from.  Laissez-faire leadership really seems to hurt the organizations more than anything.  You can have successful laissez-faire leadership in very small companies, with very motivated employees that already each know what their roles are.
With the annotated bibliography, I moved out of our Leatherby Libraries and extended out into Google Scholar.  I found some interesting and different articles that I am able to use.  This will help me for the entire research project as a whole.

Academic Integrity

After this weeks assignment, I can see how people can accidentally plagiarize.  I have definitely done that before.  Properly siting their sources will definitely help that, and when in doubt, I have learned, site the source.
Another form of plagiarism, and also academic integrity, as well as copy right, is when you buy papers online.  You are knowingly trying to pass another person's work off as your own.  Sometimes people think that because they buy them, it's theirs, but it is still not your work.  It's a really horrible way to hurt your career as a student, so I hope people think about what they are doing and try to make the right decisions.
Copy right is something I never really thought of while working on my classes.  I never realized that when I build a project and I may copy something off of the internet, without the company's permission it's copy right infringement.  As well as watching a movie in class for the purpose of learning, is copyright if again, without the company's permission.
I will definitely be double checking my work in the future to make sure I am not making any of these mistakes, because I care about academic integrity, as well as my career as a student.