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Annotated Bibliography - Sunday June 16th An annotated bibliography is an organized way of taking notes. You are going to conduct background research on your topic. You will need to search for scholarly articles through the online library system and gather relevant data (e.g., information, statistics) about your topic to support your arguments/hypotheses. For each of the 5 scholarly sources, you will need cite the article in correct APA style and you will also need to answer the following:

1. The authors felt it was important to conduct this study, and write this article, because _________? (State the relevant background information used to justify their work.)

2. The main purpose of this article, or study, was ____________? (State as accurately as possible the author’s purpose for writing the article.)

3. The key questions the author is addressing are __________? (Identify the key questions in the mind of the author when they wrote the article.)

4. The methods used to answer their key questions were __________? (Describe the general approach used and include details that assist in evaluating the quality of the results – sample size, etc.)

5. The most important information in this article is ____________? (Identify the facts, observations, and/or data the author is using to support their conclusions.)

6. The results can be put into context by comparing them to _________? (Place the results into an easily understood context by expressing as %s or by comparing to an intuitively understood value - e.g., 2x the size of a football field)

7. The main inferences/conclusions in this article are __________? (Identify the key conclusions the author presents in the article.)

8. If we take this line of reasoning seriously, the implications are ___________? (What consequences are likely to follow if people take the author’s reasoning seriously?)

For the annotated bibliography, I encourage you to copy and paste the questions into your document and elaborate on them. Please also keep the numbering in place so that I can easily identify each component. There is not a required length for the annotated bibliography, but it must be clear that you read the article, answered all of the above questions, and correctly cited the article in APA style.

After the 5 articles you will write a one page paper summarizing the research that you found in an organized and coherent way. At the end of this paper, you will need to formulate a hypothesis or research question based on your research (e.g., those who engage in more conflict experience higher/lower relationship satisfaction). Please think back to your Comm 228 days in terms of developing your hypothesis or research questions (i.e., what two variables are you interested in? is it a variable – i.e., does it vary? Is it a positive or negative relationship?)

This one page summary should start on its own page but be in the same document/file as the annotated bibliography. It should be less than EXACTLY one page, but it cannot exceed a page and a half. Your paper should be free of grammatical errors and typos (points will be deducted as necessary for poor grammar and typos. Please do not use direct quotes – learn how to summarize – as points will be deducted each time you use a direct quote. This page should be double-spaced, have one-inch margins, and use 12 pt. Times New Roman font (Mac Users: the default margins are NOT 1 inch, so you mush change this manually; additionally, Times New Roman is NOT default either, so you must also change this manually).