Research Paper: Annotated Bibliography Instructions

Overview

An annotated bibliography is a collection of one paragraph summaries of sources you intend to use for a paper. Writing the annotated bibliography gives you the opportunity to evaluate the usefulness of the resources you have collected and shows potential gaps in the information you need to complete a research paper.

Instructions

To complete the annotated bibliography, you will gather a minimum of 10 sources you intend to use in the final research paper. The sources must be within the past 10 years. If you intend to use resources older than 10 years you must obtain permission from your professor. At least 50% of your resources must be from empirical (research study) peer reviewed journal articles. You may use up to 2 textbooks. All resources must be from professional sources. You may not use web sites, blogs or other non-professional sources of information.

Annotations must be a summary of the article that is in your own words. You may NOT paste the abstract from the articles into the summary. The summary must include the findings of research that was included in the article.

The annotations include the full current APA-formatted citations of the source, and the annotations are listed in alphabetical order based on the first author’s last name. The assignment must include a title and reference page in current APA format.

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the SafeAssign plagiarism tool.

Example:

Grice, R. (2011). The value of university writing centers. Journal of Counseling, 23(1), 56–58.

University writing centers can be very helpful in learning APA format. Grice found in a study of 100 graduate students in a graduate-level writing course that those receiving assistance from the university writing center demonstrated marked improvement by reducing errors by 25% in comparison to the “self-taught” group. The author concludes that university writing centers can be very helpful to graduate students.

Requirements:

1. Include a current APA-formatted title page with all the required components.

2. List the annotations in alphabetical order according to the first author’s last name.

3. All sources must be from academic and peer-reviewed journals or books such as the course resources.

4. Resources must be dated within the past 10 years unless permission to use older resources is given by the instructor.

Submit the assignment as 1 Word document through the assignment link in Module/Week 4.

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