Description
Assessment 1 Instructions: Annotated Bibliography
- Assessment 1 Instructions
Before completing this assessment, ensure that you have finalized your research topic template and your research organization tool. Your topic should include psychological concepts and a population. Populate your research organization tool with 5-10 scholarly, empirical research sources. Completing the media pieces will enhance your understanding.
For this assessment, you will complete your annotated bibliography with 10 scholarly, empirical research sources, published within the last five years,
Introduction
Annotated bibliographies serve as an overview of the research. They help with summarizing and organizing key points from the research literature so that the role of the published research can be critically evaluated against the research topic. It is an important step prior to embarking on the literature review. A good annotated bibliography will help bridge main ideas from the research and your own independent ideas related to your research topic.
In this course, the annotated bibliography is the next step in the course project after the literature search. Your annotated bibliography will contribute to the research question as you use it to build the literature review. Addressing each source specifically and in detail allows key aspects to emerge. Furthermore, it enables the understanding of each researcher’s point of view. A complete annotated bibliography should result in clear themes that inform the research topic.
Overview
Before beginning this assessment, be sure you have completed your Research Topic Template [DOCX]. You have a choice to create a literature map as outlined in the course text or use the research organization tool provided through the Capella library’s Staying Organized & Keeping Track: Research Tools page.
This assessment consists of an annotated bibliography. However, it is important to see the pathology of your work. Developing the research topic, the literature search question, and dissecting the literature are all part of understanding how you develop your annotated bibliography.
Instructions
Use the media pieces to understand the components of the annotated bibliography. Make sure to number each source. Include 10 scholarly research sources, published within the last five years, for this assessment. Make sure to apply proper APA style and formatting. You will submit your annotated bibliography, research topic template, and your research organization tool of choice, as a single submission, but separate files.
NOTE: Your assessment will be returned if the topic template and research organization tool are not submitted.
- Number each source.
- Include a minimum of 10 empirical research sources.
- Apply current APA formatting. Each annotation should include the citation of the source, just as it would appear in the reference list.
- Identify the journal’s impact factor. (SeePsychology PhD Library Research Guide: Source Quality.)
- Identify the research question.
- Identify the research problem that the author or authors hoped to resolve.
- Identify the methods the authors used to investigate the research question.
- Provide a summary of the findings.
- Evaluate the work.
- You can do this by addressing the arguments and counter arguments from research and that were made in the research study, or discussing the value that the research study findings have for the fieldhow it advances the knowledge base. Also, consider the strengths and areas were the research could expand.
- Finally, discuss how the study supports your research topic.
To successfully complete this assessment, make sure to:
- Finalize your research topic template.Check to make sure that the template has all sections filled out and that the topic has been narrowed as much as possible.
- Finalize your research organization tool. At this point it should include 10 research articles. You have a choice to create a literature map as outlined in the course text or use one from the Capella library’s Staying Organized & Keeping Track: Research Toolspage.
- Understand the components of the annotated bibliography. Revisit the media to understand what you need to know. Make sure to include the content that has been outlined above.
