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Assessment - Annotated bibliography

Introduction to Research Methods

This assessment task is aimed to build your skills in identifying and reporting on scientific literature. Literature Is the academic term for peer reviewed research and scholarly texts.

Select ONE topic from the list below.

These topics are very broad; you will need to narrow the focus to a specific area of interest.
• Wellbeing in minorities
• Social media and activism
• Mindfulness and health
• Barriers to higher education
• Artificial intelligence and human development

At the top of your response, write the topic area you have chosen, and briefly describe a focus area that you have narrowed down to.

An annotated bibliography is a series of short summaries of selected literature or reference material (typically Journal articles and edited books) existing on the topic. There are a few goals of an annotated bibliography that we will be looking for you to include:

• Show your awareness of the topic - it is crucial to find literature that is relevant to the research topic. One criteria used to evaluate your work is the relevance of scientific sources you used.

• Narrow the topic - You will start by choosing a broad area for a research paper (from the topics listed above). Doing an annotated bibliography requires studying various issues of the topic. It will help you to identify a research gap in the topic area. Hence, an annotated bibliography is a way to build your understanding and then narrow your focus within the topic area. You don't want to use the first five articles you find, choose articles that together focus in on a specific topic area.

• Find gaps in current knowledge - And last but not the least find gaps of a research topic. Gaps are aspects, problems or questions that have not been covered or solved yet. What does scientific enquiry need to do next to have a stronger and more useful scientific knowledge in this topic area?

Ultimately, the purpose of your annotated bibliography is to summarise relevant literature to help Identify a gap that you could focus on in your own future research.

This is a skill that takes time to develop and will be very important throughout your psychology degree, SO we are going to Introduce you to this early by having you conduct your own (small) annotated bibliography to identify a research gap.

Your annotated bibliography should include peer-reviewed journals articles or academic literature sources e.g. chapter from a scientific edited book. We call these journal articles, book chapters, scientific reports and similar scientific literature 'reference material.

For each of the reference materials you find, provide the citation as it would appear in an APA style reference list, then write an approximately 150-word paragraph summary of the study or literature. In the 150 words, try to briefly explain what the study is about, what the researchers did, what they found, and their interpretation of their findings. If you can within the short word limits, also identify any critique or limitations of their work, and possible research gaps. Comment on what the study adds to our understanding of the topic area. At the end of each summary paragraph include a word count for that paragraph.

Use APA referencing.