OVERVIEW
An annotated bibliography facilitates the gathering and assessing of materials for a topic to be studied. It is an evaluative and descriptive process that challenges you to refine your skills as a researcher and writer. The overall purpose of an annotated bibliography is to provide a foundation that informs and advances a research project at a graduate level. Specifically, an annotated bibliography will require you to:
Identify significant academic sources that relate to your research area of interests.
Provide a clear, concise review of often complex research.
Evaluate the sources to gain perspective and connections to your research.
Your annotated bibliography is one document with many sources. Though it follows APA style guidelines, this is not a typical research paper. Sources must remain independently, alphabetically listed and reviewed.
INSTRUCTIONS
As a lead-in to a larger Annotated Bibliography: Final Assignment, this Annotated Bibliography: Sample Assignment should align to the following requirements
Research a new media technology as outlined in class announcements and draft a currently formatted APA-style paper conforming to graduate and doctoral student rules.
Topic: Podcasts
o Include a cover with a topical title to the paper, abstract, and annotated bibliography body. You do not need the normal references pages that you would find in a research paper because the annotated bibliography body includes the citations.
Write an original abstract summarizing five (5) peer-reviewed journal articles published within the last 5 years.
Write an original annotated bibliography body consisting of the afore mentioned five (5) journal articles as the body section of your paper
Use the Jerry Falwell Library Advanced Search under Search Anything, and limit your search to Journal Articles.
Each citation should include a two-paragraph summary as outlined below. There is no page length requirement, though you should plan to include as much of the data in the paragraphs as is available for each source.
Format of Annotated Bibliography: Sample Assignment is the current APA standard for graduate and doctoral students
Five (5) total citations
Acceptable sources include scholarly articles published within the last five yearsANNOTATED CITATIONSAt minimum, each reference within the paper must include the following items:
The current APA-formatted reference. Use the MyBib website (see Resources section) for help structuring your references with current APA formatting standards.
Paragraph 1 (of 2 per citation) should include as many items below as possible:
o The Purpose of the study
o Research design
o Setting
o Number of participants and type of sample
o Data collection method(s)
o Data analysis procedures
o Summary of key findings
o Limitations and recommendations for future research
Paragraph 2 (of 2 per citation) should include as many items below as possible:
o A clear topic sentence regarding how this paper will contribute to the overall topic of study
o Followed by a relevantly cited quote or statistic that could be directly applied to your research
o Any relevant supporting information.
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