Developing an Annotated Bibliography
In Assignment 4, you will:
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- Continue the research — you started in Assignment 3. Here, you will use St. Thomas University E-library (and databases) to find 5 additional research studies on your research problem/topic. You will use those 10 studies (including the 5 in Assignment 3) to create an annotated bibliography focusing on the problem at your workplace or community. You are not allowed to use GOOGLE as a database or your research source for this assignment. Information on how to access the STU databases is included in the Supplementary Readings Folder.
- Re-name the topic which best describes that problem—that you identified in Assignment 3 regarding your workplace. This will be your revised Research Topic. Although you named the topic in Assignment 3, now you will refine and re-write the topic based on the new information that you uncovered since you started the research on your Topic. The revised description of the topic should contain no more than 12 words. Consider this to be the final Topic of your research.
- Create an Annotated Bibliography— use the 10 publications (in #1) to create this Annotated Bibliography, following the specific steps that are described below:
Steps for Developing an Annotated Bibliography
For purposes of this Assignment #4, the Annotated Bibliography should be written as follows:
- Use the databases in the STU E-Library
- Use the Template for Annotated Bibliography to create each Annotated Bibliography
- Identify the 10 research studies by the title of study, the author’s name, place, and date of publication.
- Each citation should be written in appropriate APA Manual Style with complete sentences.
- Each citation should contain two paragraphs, no more than 300 words, and contain any information you choose to include based on the Template.
- Paragraph One should contain about 6 to 8 complete sentences.
- Paragraph Two should contain 2 to 3 sentences that describe how the citation supports your research topic. This support may be in the form of research data, research results, or specific claims that relate to your topic.
- The Bibliography should be organized in order of importance for your action research topic.
Your 2 paragraphs must include the name of the author and or publisher and should reflect some of the following topics below, not all! Include only those that are most relevant and best strengthen your argument:
- Description of the research cited.
- Statement of the main argument (i.e., explain what the research is about).
- Summary of the main points presented in each study (may include at least one key quotation that highlights the summary).
- Summary of the results of each study.
- Statement of the Problem and the Purpose of the Research.
- Evaluation of the usefulness of the study for your research problem.
- Note the highlight or “take-away’ of this research.
Attention: Submit the assignment by 11:59 PM ET Friday.
