Additional report criteria and recommendations

Step 1:  if you make any claims, then back them up with citations

--citeless claim:  "Its been proven and can also be physically seen that violence learned by children and subjected to children can also have effects on that child's family."; "Children raised in high crime areas are often encouraged to rise above the standard of people from their particular area."; "Children are generally easily influenced creatures and will take things in as they are seen, rather than thinking them out or questioning them."; "There are many forms of deviancy, but the most common among our community is crime."

--Answer the question, "According to whom has it been proven?" "Who made this claim?"
– You can only say with the data (i.e., evidence) or text allow you to say.  So be able to answer the question, "Which data allow you to make this claim?"

--If I say that gender is at least partially produced by the speech of those directed at a body to be gendered (e.g., the “genderless baby”), then I need to show in the data or in the existing theory support for this claim.

Step 2:  avoid speculation or guessing without data
– E.g., "Although it is alive and well in all walks of life, I do believe it doesn't effect children in all walks of life the same. A murder, for instance, committed in a high-class neighborhood with a low crime rate witnessed by a child of that neighborhood surely couldn't have the same effect on a child in that same scenario except it occurring in a crime-rich environment... could it?"

--The question asked in this example is actually a good possible starting point for a specific question or hypothesis.  A starting point not a stopping point.  It is characteristic more of a 1st draft than a final draft.

Step 3:  avoid flourish

--e.g., "That statement couldn't be more true."

Step 4:  avoid quotations and drawn out citations
– E.g., "David Croteau and William Hoynes says "Crime exists in all societies," in the book "Experince Sociology.""
– Alternative example: "If it is true that crime is found in every society (ES, 12), then..."

--[for controversy analysis]--

Step 5:  Use the native idiom
-- try to use the language of the people observed, particularly if they name their side or describe their perspective (e.g., "Pro-choice" or "pro-life")