AnnotatedBibliography Assignment Instructions
Overview
The foundation for sound scholarship is a solidcommand of the academic literature in your field. A scholar builds thisfoundation by reading and evaluating one academic source at a time.
Over time, you will read many, many sources. It isvitally important for you to keep a record of what you have read, along withimportant annotations so that you remember how each source is relevant to yourresearch. These citation records include:
Basicbibliographic details: Author, Title, Publication Name, Date, Page Numbers.
Abrief summary of the source: What was the key argument? What were its strengthsor weaknesses? Was anything in the piece applicable to your future research?
Tagsor Keywords: You should consider how to organize your sources so that you caneasily recall sources that are relevant to various research projects you may bemanaging, and sources that are relevant to different parts of a researchproject.
This Annotated Bibliography Assignment willintroduce you to the process of identifying, recording, and annotating sourcesfor later use. It will also introduce you to a citation management tool calledRefWorks that is available to all Liberty University students. (See AnnotatedBibliography Resources section.)
NOTE: If you are already accustomed to using anothercitation manager, you are not required to use RefWorks, but you are stronglyencouraged to do so.
Instructions
For this assignment, you are required to submit an AnnotatedBibliography Assignment in which you:
Identifyat least ten sources that are relevant to a public policy issue that you may beinterested in researching for your dissertation.
o Stateand briefly describe, in a few sentences, the public policy issue you intend toexplore in this assignment.
o Notethat these sources can be used for your Literature Assessment Assignment,so be thoughtful in selecting them.
o Createan entry for each source in RefWorks, or your chosen citation manager.
Annotateeach source with a summary of at least 50 words. (If you use RefWorks, writeyour annotation for each source in the Abstract field of your record for thatsource.)
o Eachannotation should state the central thesis of the source being cited.
o Eachannotation should explain how the sources author(s) support their thesis.
o Eachannotation should evaluate the relevance or applicability of the source to yourresearch interest.
Producean Annotated Bibliography Assignment document according to currentTurabian format. (See the Liberty University Writing Center for a sampleAnnotated Bibliography see Annotated Bibliography Resources section).
o Ensurethat you have a properly formatted Title Page with your name, the course name,the instructor name, and the date of your document.
o Ensurethat your citations are properly formatted and alphabetized.
o Ensurethat your full annotation of each source is included beneath the sourcescitation.
Be sure to view the Annotated BibliographyResources section under the Annotated Bibliography page.
Reading materials
Lowi chapter 1-2
Birdland chapter 4,5 and 6
