Unit 2 - Overview

Overview of Annotated Bibliography

Student Outcomes: As a result of this unit and assignment, students will be able to:

• Choose an appropriate, focused research paper topic and questions and create a working thesis and rough outline for their research paper
• Collect sources for a specific research paper topic using the online library database.
• Evaluate sources for their relevance to the topic and reliability for research
• Create reference page citations and in-text citations to give credit to the author of the source, avoid plagiarism, and make locating the source later much easier Write an annotated bibliography for their 6+ sources including the 4 parts below for each source annotation:
• Citation information of the source (in APA or another citation style that is widely used in the students' disciplines)
• Summary of the source
• Evaluation of the source in terms of reliability (e.g. authorship and/or sponsorship, purpose, bias, currency and scope of information, research methodology)
• Evaluation of the source in terms of relevancy (e.g. how the source is related to other sources in the bibliography, how it helps answer your research question)

Assignment Description:

The annotated bibliography assignment is designed to help students choose reliable and relevant sources from the library database and organize them with annotations on their contents, reliability, and relevancy so that students can use these sources more easily when writing their upcoming research paper

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Sample Assignments:

Sample 1

Sample 2