1. Purpose:
The
purpose of the Annotated Bibliography is to summarize the sources that you have
gathered to support your Research Proposal project. These summaries help you to
think about the complex arguments presented in your sources and the massive
information therein in terms of short, digestible articulations. In addition,
these summaries will likely form the basis for Draft 1 of your Research Paper
(the review of literature) that you will complete in Unit IV, which is largely
comprised of summaries that are transitioned together and that form a
conversation about the issue.
Description:
In
this assignment, you will create an Annotated Bibliography consisting of five
sources. Each entry will consist of a reference list citation that precedes a
100-150 word summary of the source. If each of the five entries is less than
the word count, it is likely you have not fully developed your summary, and
this lack of development can severely impact your grade for this assignment.
Your Annotated Bibliography will include the elements listed below.
Elements:
Your
Annotated Bibliography must contain specific elements. Your grade is largely
based on your inclusion of these elements, as well as your ability to summarize
your sources. For assistance, you may want to refer to the example in Chapter
20, Section 20f, of Strategies
for Writing Successful Research Papers (pp. 436-438). The elements include the
following.
1.
Cover page and
APA formatting:
You
will include an APA-style cover page for your Annotated Bibliography. Your cover
page should include the following: the title, your name, and the name of your
university. Your title will appear in the running head which should include up
to 50 characters from the title of the paper, along with a sequential page
number in the upper right-hand corner.
The
following conventions should be followed as well. See the Annotated
Bibliography example (linked below) for guidance:
·
The
entries should be ordered in alphabetical order according to the first
substantive word in the reference list citation.
·
The
entire Annotated Bibliography should be double-spaced, with no additional
spaces between entries.
·
No
reference list should be included with the Annotated Bibliography, as the
entries themselves will contain
the
reference list citation information.
·
The
first line of each reference list citation should be flush left with the
left-hand margin (no indentation),
and
the second and proceeding lines should be indented 1⁄2” from the left-hand
margin (hanging indent of
one-half
inch).
·
The
summary paragraph begins on the line following the end of the reference. It
lines up with the indented
portion
of the reference, with the exception that the first line is indented an
additional one-half inch. (Look at the example to see how this formats.)
2.
Entries:
Each
of the five entries should begin with a reference list citation in APA format
and be followed by a 100-150 word summary of the source’s information. An
Annotated Bibliography summary should include the most important information
from the text. Sometimes, this means that you will broadly summarize larger
portions of text (as in main ideas of a whole essay); other times, this means
that you will focus on summarizing one paragraph out of an entire source.
Whenever you quote information, use APA in-text citations.
Annotated Bibliography Example:
The
purpose of the Annotated Bibliography example is to help you with the
formatting of the Annotated Bibliography, which can be confusing.
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