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Course Project: Annotated Bibliography Sources 9 15 Assignment Instructions

Overview

You will complete the second annotated bibliography in this module.

Course Project: Annotated Bibliography Sources 9 15 Assignment (7 sources)

Instructions

Each annotated bibliography must follow the current APA format and include the number of scholarly sources required in the assignment title.

You are to include seven references with full citations and annotations in this assignment. You will need to continue taking notes on the references and moving them into your synthesis tables.

At least five of the scholarly resources you provide for each assignment must be current and published in the last five years. The others must have been published within the last 10 years. These must be empirical, peer-reviewed journal articles and professional books. All sources must be directly related to your research topic.

Place your topic at the top of the annotated bibliography. Write the full citation for the reference, followed by the annotation. The text in the annotations must be indented so that the authors last name is the only text that is flush left due to the hanging indent required in current APA format.

Each entry should include:

1.An APA formatted reference.

1. An annotation summarizing the main points in the reference.
2. A statement of how the information will be beneficial and contribute to the final draft you will be writing in the Course Project: Final Paper Draft Assignment and the final paper in Course Project: Final Paper Assignment. The explanation of how you will use the information in your final paper should be written in 1^stperson. What benefit does this source provide? What section might it contribute to? Do you see any interplay between this source and others you have selected? In what section of my paper can I use this information?

In the resources summary, focus on the purpose of the research study/reference and the findings/conclusions. You do not need to include the details of the research study, such as the number of participants or the research method used. The annotations are designed to help you and your instructor better understand how your sources connect to your research topic. The summary of the main points of the reference should be written in 3^rd person. No in-text citations are needed in the summary because all of the information is from the reference you are annotating, and the citation is above the annotation.

Note: Do not cut and paste from the references, as this constitutes plagiarism. Most of the time, this occurs as an innocent oversight on the part of the candidate. Regardless of the reason, in the event of plagiarism, you will receive 0 points for the entire assignment per Liberty Universitys policy on academic dishonesty.

Formatting Requirements

Each annotated bibliography must have a title page with a running head and page numbers, following the current APA professional format.

No abstract is required. No reference list is required.

Each annotation must be 150 words.

• Annotations must be organized alphabetically, by reference.

Important Notes

As you read and annotate references, you will start to see different themes or subtopics emerge. An effective way of documenting information for these different themes and subtopics is to use a note-taking method and then moving your notes into the table. This will assist you in synthesizing or combining the information from the different references when you write the final draft. This was explained in the Course Project: Develop a Topic Assignment. There are sample synthesis tables that you can use in this module or you can use an Excel spreadsheet. You can move the information from the synthesis table you created for the Develop a Topic paper into the synthesis table (or tables for this assignment).

Additional Information on Note-Taking and Synthesizing Reference Information

A research paper is not a summary of the main points of each source written in separate paragraphs. When information is synthesized, the reference information from all of the different scholarly references is combined. You put together the ideas and findings to put your voice (the writers voice) to the overall points being explained. You must keep track of and document the information used in each section of the paper by taking notes as you read.

As you gather your notes from each reference, organizing the notes according to the themes (sub-topics) will be beneficial. This can be done using a synthesis table, also referred to as a synthesis matrix. The synthesis table is a chart allowing a researcher to sort and categorize the arguments presented on an issue. Taking notes and then sorting and categorizing the notes in the synthesis table will help synthesize (or combine) the reference information in the final draft/final paper.

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