Assignment: Formal Annotated Bibliography

Assignment: Formal Annotated Bibliography

Assignment: Formal Annotated Bibliography

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DNP 801 Topic 5 Annotated Bibliography
Details:
The purpose of this assignment is to be able to actively search for relevant research related to your PICOT topic and present it in a formal annotated bibliography.General Requirements:Refer to the resource, “Preparing Annotated Bibliographies,” located in the Student Success Center, for additional guidance on completing this assignment in the appropriate style.
Doctoral learners are required to use Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.
Directions:

As you search the library for scholarly research, limit your search to identify empirical articles. You can use the “Empirical Research Checklist” to help with this determination. Upon finding an empirical study, assess the validity of the conclusion by determining if the conclusion answers your proposed research question and if the methodology is appropriate.

Using the “Empirical Research Checklist” and your knowledge of finding empirical research articles, locate six articles directly related to your proposed PICOT question. You may use the three you used for the assignment in Topic 4.

Write an annotation for each of the six articles that includes a concise summary in your own words and the correct APA citation for each article.

The Purpose of an Annotated Bibliography
The Purpose of an Annotated Bibliography
Literally, an annotated bibliography is a formal list of sources (hence the word “bibliography”) on a particular research topic that includes descriptive information about each source (this is what the word “annotated” means).

An annotated bibliography contains two basic types of information:

The first type is a formal documentation entry for each source a person collects, following a professional style for documenting and citing sources such as APA or MLA. The documentation entry that goes into an annotated bibliography is the same thing that goes on the a list of sources (e.g. a References or Works Cited page) in an academic paper.
The second type is an annotation, which, again, is provided for each source a person collects. Usually, each annotation includes a brief summary of the source. But often, it will also offer some other information, such as details about credibility of the source and an assessment of the source’s usefulness.
Example
Khazan, Olga. “The Simple Psychological Trick to Political Persuasion.” The Atlantic, 1 Feb.

2017, www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/02/the-simple-psychological-trick-to-political-

persuasion/515181/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2017.

In this article for The Atlantic, an internationally renown monthly magazine that publishes articles on social and cultural issues, staff writer Olga Khazan applies the concept of “moral frames” to explain why voters often seem recalcitrantly fixed in their political views. “Moral frames,” are patterns of thinking about and understanding ethical issues. Conservatives and liberals tend to hold different moral frames and find political arguments more persuasive if they appeal to the moral frames that they hold. For instance, since conservatives highly value patriotism, they are more likely to be persuaded by a political argument aligning a certain political view with being patriotic. This article provides some insights on how political activism can be done in a more productive and persuasive way.

An annotated bibliography will contain several entries like the one above, all based on sources found related to a specific research subject.

Why Write an Annotated Bibliography?
The above gives you some perspective on what goes in an annotated bibliography. But you might also wonder, “What is an annotated bibliography for? What good is it?”

The annotated bibliography is an academic genre, a specific kind of composition that is written for academic audiences, with specific content and a form that is meaningful for those academic audiences. It’s also a kind of writing you usually only see written by people in higher education, especially by professors/scholars and students.

When professors or scholars write annotated bibliographies, they often are doing so as a service to other people in their profession. Since scholars and professors are in jobs where they do intense amounts of research on all sorts of topics, they will often produce annotated bibliographies on the topics they have researched and share those annotated bibliographies with others in the profession. This helps save other professors and scholars the time and energy of having to research these topics from scratch if they intend to conduct research related to that topic or if they just want to be more informed about that topic. For instance, the following link takes you to the Bedford Bibliography of Research in Online Writing Instruction, in which a variety of contributors documented and annotated over 370 scholarly articles on the topic of online writing instruction published in the last 25 years.

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

• Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
• Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
• One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
• I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.

Weekly Participation

• Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
• In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
• Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
• Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.

APA Format and Writing Quality

• Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
• Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
• I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.

Use of Direct Quotes

• I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
• As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
• It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.

 

LopesWrite Policy

• For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
• Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
• Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
• Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.

Late Policy

• The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
• Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
• If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
• I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
• As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.

Communication

• Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me: 
  • Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
  • Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.