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Choose a communicable disease that you are interested in. Find five academic journal articles that discuss your disease of interest.   Upload an APA formatted annotated bibliography for your articles. The annotation should summarize the article (2-3) sentences per annotation.

Be sure to save the articles that you find.  You'll use these articles in a future assignment. 

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WHAT IS AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY?

An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents. Each citation is followed by a brief (usually about 150 words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph, the annotation. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited.

 

ANNOTATIONS VS. ABSTRACTS

Abstracts are the purely descriptive summaries often found at the beginning of scholarly journal articles or in periodical indexes. Annotations are descriptive and critical; they expose the author's point of view, clarity and appropriateness of expression, and authority.

 

THE PROCESS

Creating an annotated bibliography calls for the application of a variety of intellectual skills: concise exposition, succinct analysis, and informed library research.

First, locate and record citations to books, periodicals, and documents that may contain useful information and ideas on your topic. Briefly examine and review the actual items. Then choose those works that provide a variety of perspectives on your topic.

Cite the book, article, or document using the appropriate style.

USE THE ABSTRACTS OR THE SUMMARY IN THE ARTICLE Write a concise annotation that summarizes the central theme (WHAT THE PAPER IS ABOUT) and the article. Include one or more sentences that (a) evaluate the authority or background of the author (SOURCES OF DATA- WHAT MAKES THE PAPER A GOOD ONE OR A VERY RELIABLE ONE), (b) comment on the intended audience (WHO WAS THE AUTHOR TALKING TO), (c) compare or contrast the this work with another you have cited (between the articles 5 of them) , or (d) explain how this work illuminates your bibliography topic.TAKE TWO ARTICLES AND COMPARE BOTH.

EXAMPLE: THE AUTHORS IN ARTCLE A USED DATA FROM XXX TO DO THEIR RESEARCH WHEREAS AUTHOR C RELIED ON INTERVIEWS TO COLECT DATA.

In this article, the authors discussed Japan’s national official surveillance for influenza performed at about 5,000 sentinel hospitals/clinics by their National Official Sentinel Surveillance of Infectious Diseases (NOSSID). They compared the regional variation of influenza incidence among prefectures between the NOSSID and NDBEMC and were extracted data from NOSSID and the NDBEMC for the 2010/2011 through 2013/2014 seasons. They also compared the data of both datasets season by season by using Spearman's rank correlation in each season. Spearman's rank correlation values for the four seasons were 0.7823, 0.3907, 0.4961 and 0.4543, and concluded that Japan’s regional variation of influenza incidence in NOSSID is not imprecise, though it correlated with the NDBEMC dataset at a low level.