Annotated Bibliography Assignment Instructions

Annotated Bibliography Assignment Instructions

Overview

The foundation for sound scholarship is a solid command of the academic literature in your field. A scholar builds this foundation by reading and evaluating one academic source at a time.

Over time, you will read many, many sources. It is vitally important for you to keep a record of what you have read, along with important annotations so that you remember how each source is relevant to your research. These :

Basic bibliographic details: Author, Title, Publication Name, Date, Page Numbers.

A brief summary of the source: What was the key argument? What were its strengths or weaknesses? Was anything in the piece applicable to your future research?

Tags or Keywords: You should consider how to organize your sources so that you can easily recall sources that are relevant to various research projects you may be managing, and sources that are relevant to different parts of a research project.

ThisAnnotated Bibliography Assignmentwill introduce you to the process of identifying, recording, and annotating sources for later use. It will also introduce you to a citation management tool called RefWorks that is available to all . (SeeAnnotated Bibliography Resources section.)

NOTE: If you are already accustomed to using another citation manager, you are not required to use RefWorks, but you are strongly encouraged to do so.

Instructions

For this assignment, you are required to submit anAnnotated Bibliography Assignmentin which you:

Identify at least ten sources that are relevant to a public policy issue that you may be interested in researching for your dissertation.

oState and briefly describe, in a few sentences, the public policy issue you intend to explore in this assignment.

oNote that these sources can be used for yourLiterature Assessment Assignment, so be thoughtful in selecting them.

oCreate an entry for each source in RefWorks, or your chosen citation manager.

Annotate each source with a summary of at least 50 words. (If you use RefWorks, write your annotation for each source in the Abstract field of your record for that source.)

oEach annotation should state the central thesis of the source being cited.

oEach annotation should explain how the sources author(s) support their thesis.

oEach annotation should evaluate the relevance or applicability of the source to your research interest.

Produce anAnnotated Bibliography Assignmentdocument according to . (See the Liberty University Writing Center for a sample Annotated Bibliography seeAnnotated Bibliography Resources section).

oEnsure that you have a properly formatted Title Page with your name, the course name, the instructor name, and the date of your document.

oEnsure that your citations are properly formatted and alphabetized.

oEnsure that your full annotation of each source is included beneath the sources citation.

Be sure to view theAnnotated Bibliography Resources sectionunder theAnnotated Bibliography page.

Reading materials

Lowi chapter 1-2

Birdland chapter 4,5 and 6