Annotated Bibliography- AMA Format

Criteria

Level of Performance

Novice

0-31

Point Range

(must be whole numbers)

Competent

32-36

Point Range

(must be whole numbers)

Advanced

37-40

Point Range

(must be whole numbers)

Article selection

The student has not provided 20 references or more than two of the provided references do not meet assignment criteria.

The student has provided the required 20 references; however, one or two of the references are from sources that do not meet the assignment criteria.

All 20 articles presented meet assignment criteria:

· Peer-reviewed journals or government documents from the past 5 years

· NO WEBPAGES

· NO ENCYCLOPEDIC SOURCES (Wikipedia, WebMD, etc)

· NO LAY LITERATURE

· NO FACT SHEETS

Novice

0-21

Point Range

Competent

22-27

Point Range

Advanced

28-30

Point Range

Format

Articles are not arranged in a sequentially numbered list or have significant formatting errors.

Articles are arranged in a sequentially numbered list but have minor formatting errors.

Articles are correctly formatted in AMA style as found in AMA Manual of Style chapter 3. References are numbered as a sequential list.

Novice

0-21

Point Range

Competent

22-27

Point Range

Advanced

28-30

Point Range

Annotations

Summaries for each article reflect a lack of understanding of article and are insufficient for inclusion of the article content in the future development of the writing project, or the summaries are not numbered to match the numbered reference, or the length of the summary is less than 100 words or more than 200 words.

Summaries for each article reflect a fair understanding of article contents or contains extraneous material. Further article review will be needed to provide sufficient information to allow development of future writing project. The summaries are numbered to correspond to the appropriate numbered reference, but the length of some summaries is slightly outside the 100-200 words limit required.

Summaries for each article reflect a thorough understanding of article contents and does not include extraneous information. The given notation will provide significant information to allow the student to recall information learned from the article for development of future writing project. The summaries are numbered to correspond to the appropriate numbered reference. The length of the summary is between 100-200 words.