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Assignment 1: Annotated Bibliography About Learning Communities. An annotated bibliography is a very efficient tool for selecting appropriate professional literature for literature reviews and research. For this assignment you will select 8-10 sources to review learning communities (communities of practice) in the Topic/Organization (education, business, service agency, etc.) to analyze in this course. It is recommended that you review current (1-5 year old) full text professional journals for this assignment. You may use the Internet, but no more than 5 sources should be from web sites. Annotated bibliography is different from a literature review in that it is not a running narrative. Instead, it is a collection of summaries of selected works IN A SELECTED Topic. In other words, each listing in the annotated bibliography will have complete bibliographical information and a short summary of the content. The notion is that an annotated bibliography acts as a pre-cursor to a literature review, or a source of first phase of information for a research project (Assignments 2 & 3 in this Course), etc. There is no need for a reference list at the end of the assignment. The rubric for grading follows. Note: It is highly recommended that you read chapters 2, 3, 4 and 5 in Using Sources Effectively by Harris, R.A. (2014) listed in Section VI, Materials and Resources of the MSL 685 Syllabus.
See Rubric in Syllabus & attached.
ASSIGNMENT 1 ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography: The Annotated Bibliography http://guides.library.cornell.edu/annotatedbibliography Assignment 1: Annotated Bibliography about Learning Communities.
An annotated bibliography is a very efficient tool for selecting appropriate professional literature for literature reviews. For this assignment you will select 12-15 sources to review related to learning communities (communities of practice) or themes related to learning communities. It is recommended that you review current (1-3 year old) full text professional journals for this assignment. You may use the Internet, but no more than 5 sources should be from web sites. Annotated bibliography is different from a literature review in that it is not a running narrative. Instead, it is a collection of summaries of selected works. In other words, each listing in the annotated bibliography will have complete bibliographical information and a short summary of the content. The notion is that an annotated bib acts as a pre- cursor to a literature review, or a source of first phase of information for a research project, etc. There is no need for a reference list at the end of the assignment. The rubric for grading follows.
Note: It is highly recommended that you read chapters 2, 3, 4 and 5 in Using sources effectively: Strengthening your writing and avoiding plagiarism (4th ed.), by Harris listed in the required supplemental materials for this course.
Grading Rubric for Annotated Bibliography
18-20 points: The Annotated Bibliography is well-organized and well-written. All references are relevant to the topic and are correctly cited, using APA format. The reference list is in correct APA format. Only references that are cited in the Annotated Bibliography are listed in the reference list and all resources that are cited in the review are listed in the reference list. There are at least eight primary, research- based journal articles cited. There are no errors in grammar or spelling.
17-15 points: The Annotated Bibliography is organized and coherent. Most of the references are relevant to the topic and are correctly cited, using APA format. The reference list is in correct APA format. Only references that are cited in the Annotated Bibliography are listed in the reference list and all resources that are cited in the Review are listed in the reference list. There are at least eight primary, research-based journal articles cited. There are no errors in grammar or spelling.
14-10 points: The Annotated Bibliography is somewhat rambling. Most of the references are relevant to the topic and most are correctly cited, using APA format. The in-text and reference list citations have few APA formatting errors. There are fewer than eight primary, research-based journal articles cited. There are few grammar and no spelling errors. This assignment should be redone.
9-6 points: The Review is disorganized. There are fewer than eight primary, research-based journal articles cited and many of the items cited are not relevant to the student’s topic. There are significant spelling, APA, and/or grammar errors. This assignment must be redone.
5-1 point: The Review is disorganized and rambling. Most of the items discussed in the Review are not relevant to the topic. There are significant spelling and/or grammar errors and no compliance with APA manual. This assignment must be redone.