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Annotated Bibliography
Purpose
Leaders make informed decisions. We take many perspectives into account, weighing various values, ethical considerations, and reasoning. Through this annotated bibliography assignment, we will practice working in groups to find multiple types of resources, to assess the credibility of each of those resources, and to produce summaries and analysis (what’s called an “annotation”) that help our team to move efficiently through the research-collection process.
Form & Audience
Technical Requirements: 15 sources per group, submitted as a group, 10-12 pages double-spaced, 75 points
Audience: The audience for this annotated bibliography is you, your PSP group, and the teaching team. Each summary and analysis can help you to determine how your source might be related to other sources or your topic, and those summaries can help your teammates to determine if their sources address a similar or different perspectives. When the full assignment is completed, your group can determine if you found a full range of perspectives, identify themes, and address lingering questions about the primary dilemmas of the topic. By reading your annotations and citations, the teaching team can help you to build your knowledge and confidence in summarizing a source, looking for credibility from a variety of authors, and using citations to give credit to others for their ideas and hard work.
Cohesion & Flow: Each summary and analysis should be written as a complete paragraph. Each source and annotation should stand alone, and there does not need to be flow between each paragraph or each source. Please use complete sentences and consider sentence length, formation, and punctuation as part of sharing your annotations succinctly.
FIRST STEP: COLLABORATE (You do not need to write or record this part of the assignment). Your goal is to seek out the huge range in arguments to address the 3-5 research questions you developed during the PSP Group Norms assignment. As a group, work to identify 15 different sources to represent diverse arguments and a variety of constituencies regarding the issue. The PSP Ethical Analysis you completed may help you to identify a wide range of perspectives and motivations connected to your topic.
We hope you feel encouraged to approach this work with curiosity and the intention of seeking to understand your topic statement and research question. This paper will be submitted as a group on Canvas.
| Please include the following types of sources in your annotated bibliography. | |
| QUANTITY | SOURCE TYPE |
| 6-9 | Peer-reviewed article
● Original research published in a peer-reviewed journal; type of primary source.
Examples: ● Articles published in a peer-reviewed journal (indicated by a referee jersey icon when searching the journal in Ulrich’s Periodicals Database); usually includes abstract, introduction, literature review, methodology, conclusions, bibliography |
| 1-3 | Scholarly, but not peer-reviewed, source
● Informative source written by a scholar or researcher that includes references to other primary or peer reviewed sources. ● May be primary sources (if describing personal experience or research) or secondary sources (if synthesizing the words or research of others).
Examples: ● Working papers, theses or dissertations (research not yet in peer-review) ● “White papers” (topical outline published by organizations or lobbying groups – be mindful of the bias of the organization) ● Scholarly book or book chapter (books go through a different editorial process and are not generally considered peer-reviewed) |
| 2-3 (beyond your peer- reviewed and scholarly sources) |
Primary source
● Presents original material and thinking; may be written or shared from a first-person perspective (ex. uses word “I”).
Examples: ● Personal reflection blog, opinion essay, poem, photograph, speech, diary, autobiography, TedTalk of personal experience, newspaper article written immediately following specific event |
| 1-3 (beyond your peer- reviewed and scholarly sources) |
Non-scholarly secondary source
● Summarizes or analyzes primary sources; references those primary sources ● In general, try to find the original source as a primary source
Examples: ● Textbook chapter, book review, newspaper article on history of a topic or issue |
| 1-2 | Non-scholarly government-generated source
● Created or collected by a government entity ● May be primary source (ex. census data) or secondary source (ex. report on themes in census data trends)
Examples: ● Regulations and laws, census data, survey results, informational websites |
Work together in order to:
- Identify areas you can each research to ensure you have a wide range of views represented in order to deepen and complicate your understanding as a group
- Ensure that your sources represent a broad range of perspectives to promote a comprehensive understanding of the topic.
For each source:
- Identify the source type with 1-2 words (see above table).
- Cite the source in APA style.
- Include a link to the source so the teaching team can confirm or offer feedback on your citation.
- Identify the overarching argument the source is making (~5-15 words)
- Summarize key insights that further your group’s understanding about the topic (~75-100 words)
- What are the compelling key points? How do key points connect to the group’s topic?
- What data or evidence is present in this source that tells the story behind the article?
- Note: This is not the place to give a general report on all the topics discussed in the source, rather for you to pull out the pieces that may be meaningful for your group and audience.
- Analyze strengths and weaknesses of the source (~75 words)
- Consider a few of these aspects:
- Year of publication and relevance to your topic
- Methodology of research (sample size, rigor)
- Potential bias of the researchers, author(s), producer(s), etc
- Inclusivity of different groups of people in the research
- Consider a few of these aspects:
Refine
Review your paper before submission. The strongest Annotated Bibliographies are those that:
- Use APA style, including consistent APA citations
- Strive to summarize and analyze in own words (mostly avoiding quotations)
- Avoid simply reporting and instead make new meaning from the different pieces of information
- Make meaningful connections between other sources, class, experiences, or readings (with citations) to reveal complexity of understanding of a concept or themselves
- Are organized, making it easy for the reader to follow along to reach understanding
- Are written in a consistent voice, use formatting to enhance readability, and include minimal grammatical or technical errors
- Include your group name and the names of each group member.
- Are submitted by one group member on Canvas
