Reference no: EM132392362
Topic - Global Warming
You must complete the mini-research project before starting your annotated bibliography. It is a pre-requisite to this project.
An annotated bibliography provides you with the opportunity to conduct research on your topic, summarize your research, and use APA formatting style to record references for your research.
Each entry for an annotated bibliography includes both bibliographic information and a descriptive summary. To write your annotated bibliography, you must find at least eight sources of information on your proposed research topic.
There are several reasons why we write annotated bibliographies:
It proves there is information available, which then ensures you have chosen a researchable topic.
It's an opportunity to practice your summarizing skills.
It insures that you have completed your research early in the report writing process.
As you research, keep your topic in mind. You will be searching through a lot of information, and your problem question should help you do a more efficient search.
First, place your expanded thesis statement at the top of your annotated bibliography.
Second, find eight (or more) sources of information related to your research topic; try to use a variety of sources:
- four sources must be peer-reviewed academic articles
- other possibilities include databases, books, interviews, etc.
- from websites, social media platforms, YouTube, etc.
Third, following your APA citation, write a descriptive summary; a descriptive summary simply describes the content of the article or site. Each summary should be between 175-225 words. Comment on how relevant and useful this source will be for your research.
Some guidelines for your description include:
Provide an overview of the source.
Explain the application of the source with regard to your topic/subtopics.
Who is/are the author(s)?
When was the source written? Is it current with regard to your topic?
What is argued in the source? What is the thesis?
What is left out? What are the source's limitations?
How is the source useful to your topic?
How will you apply it logically to your overall thesis and a specific subtopic?
How does this source support/contrast your other sources?
Fourth, choose one source to post about in the relevant Canvas discussion. Your post must be multimodal, that is, it needs to include links, images, and/or video content to help explain the content of your source. Your post should do the following:
Describe your source in 1-2 sentences (do not copy your paragraph from the annotated bibliography!)
Provide multimodal content to help a reader understand your source.
Describe your research process. How would you describe your experience of the annotated bibliography? What were the challenges? What was easy?