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UNIT III ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY INSTRUCTIONS

Posted on: Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Unit III Annotated Bibliography “HEADS UP”! (Instructions located in course “Syllabus” in Blackboard):

To help you see what is ahead in Unit/Week 3, carefully read the directions below for the completion of the Annotated Bibliography assignment for Unit III due TUE 17 FEB 2015.

If you have questions, email your professor for assistance by THUR 12 FEB 2015. as always, you may also seek out the guidance of the Success Center; the tutors are always there to assist you with your writing and comprehension, and your course Success Center Specialist, Megan Skinner, is only an email away!

You may submit writing assignments to the Success Center by using a “Writing Center Request form” located on the myCSU Student Portal. To submit a “Writing Center Request form,” log into the myCSU Student Portal, click on “Success Center,” and then click on “Tutoring.” With questions concerning APA or your assignment, you can contact the Success Center at [email protected] or by phone at ext. 6538.

Purpose:

The purpose of the Annotated Bibliography is to summarize the sources that you have gathered to support your Research Proposal project.

NOTE: Your research sources must meet the “Research Requirements” posted in the Unit III discussion AND in the “Ask the Professor” discussion thread. Please also see the “Library Research Instructions” posted for your assistance as well.

These summaries help you to think about the complex arguments presented in your sources and the massive information therein in terms of short, digestible articulations. In addition, these summaries will likely form the basis for Draft 1 of your Research Paper (the review of literature) that you will complete in Unit IV, which is largely comprised of summaries that are transitioned together and that form a conversation about the issue.

Description:

In this assignment, you will create an Annotated Bibliography consisting of five (5) authoritative sources.

Each annotated entry will consist of an APA reference list citation that precedes a 100-150 word summary of the source. If each of the five entries is less than the word count, it is likely you have not fully developed your summary, and this lack of development can severely impact your grade for this assignment. Your Annotated Bibliography will include the elements listed below.

Elements:

Your Annotated Bibliography must contain specific elements. Your grade is largely based on your inclusion of these elements, as well as your ability to summarize your sources. For assistance, you may want to refer to the example in Chapter 20, Section 20f, of Strategies for Writing Successful Research Papers (pp. 436-438). The elements include the following.

1. Cover page and APA formatting:

You will include an APA-style cover page for your Annotated Bibliography. See the example in The CSU APA Guide (6th edition) on page 16. Your cover page should include the following: the title, your name, and the name of your university (Columbia Southern University). Your title will appear in the running head which should include up to 50 characters from the title of the paper, along with a sequential page number in the upper right-hand corner.

The following conventions should be followed as well. See the Annotated Bibliography Template for guidance (Link is located in your “Syllabus”):

• The entries should be ordered in alphabetical order according to the first substantive word in the reference list citation.

• The entire Annotated Bibliography should be double-spaced, with no additional spaces between entries.

• No reference list should be included with the Annotated Bibliography, as the entries themselves will contain the reference list citation information.

• The first line of each reference list citation should be flush left with the left-hand margin, and the second and proceeding lines should be indented ½” from the left-hand margin.

• The summary paragraph should align with the .5” hanging indent of the reference above. The first line should be indented.

2. Entries:

Each of the five entries should begin with a reference list citation in APA format and be followed by a 100-150 word summary of the source’s information. An Annotated Bibliography summary should include the most important information from the text. Sometimes, this means that you will broadly summarize larger portions of text (as in main ideas of a whole essay); other times, this means that you will focus on summarizing one paragraph out of an entire source. Whenever you quote information, use APA in-text citations.

Annotated Bibliography Template:

The purpose of the Annotated Bibliography Template located through a link embedded in your “Syllabus” in your course in Blackboard is to help you with the formatting of the Annotated Bibliography, which can be confusing.

Replace the text on the Annotated Bibliography Template with your own information, using the document formatting as a guide. The APA formatting within the template is considered an example. If assistance is required, see The CSU APA Guide (6th edition), or contact the Success Center or your professor.