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Annotated Bibliographies are an academic way to formally do and record research results using a specific format. As described in the week two assignment, an annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents where each citation is followed by a brief (usually about 100 to 150 words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph, the annotation. This assignment requires that you do five annotated bibliographies PLUS an introductory and a concluding summary. The focus of this bibliography is to gather information about your proposal or new business that will assist you to be more successful and have facts to back you up. Instructions for this Assignment: As stated above, there are three distinct sections to this assignment. The introductory paragraph. This is to tell the reader what you hope to accomplish/learn with the research you are doing for your proposal. It includes your research question. There is a description of what makes a good research question in our library section: https://library.csp.edu/BA-BUS Describe what it is, why you think it’s important, what you hope to accomplish by answering questions about it and/or digging deeper into what others know about it. (These will be headers in your paper) The five separate paragraphs – annotations. A concluding summary paragraph of what you learned from the research for this assignment. NOTE: If any of the three sections are missing, you will receive a grade reduction of 33% for each missing one. More information To be successful with this assignment, follow this process: First of all determine your research question or questions to be answered to help inform you of how to go about making your proposal or starting a business. Review at least five sources that are professional or academic related to your proposal. Do NOT use such sources as: Wikipedia, Google, or Investopedia. There will be more on this in class. There is currently a Concordia librarian, Dan Hoiland, assigned to this class who can help. I strongly suggest you contact him for help with your topic. Here is the link to our library source: https://library.csp.edu/BA-BUS. Find sources related to your topic in a professional or academic source. Read the sources. Determine if the information is helpful for your proposal/problem or not. If it is helpful, write one summary paragraph about what it says, as it pertains to your topic. This can either prove or disprove your idea for your proposal Follow the example for setting up your annotated bibliographies. Be sure to follow the template structure. Watch the proper indents. The Outline of how the paper should be laid out is as follows: Begin with an Introduction paragraph to your research question/topic Describe what it is, why you think it’s important, what you hope to accomplish by answering questions about it and/or digging deeper into what others know about it. Summary of Research: this is where your annotated bibliography paragraphs go. Summarize/discuss each of the major themes you have uncovered about your topic from the literature review No more than one paragraph for each theme Write a Conclusion paragraph as it relates to your topic. Summarize the conclusions drawn from the data and describe what they mean in relation to the research question and the problem or question addressed in the project The conclusion will explain how this information can be used to inform your topic/question resolution or plan. This will probably be one page in length but no more than two. Tips that former students have told me to pass along: Thoroughly read through each source in order to complete the most useful summary possible. This is incredibly beneficial when writing the final paper in order to find the sources again that pertain to the specific section of the paper. Another student said the most difficult part is finding five or more sources that were useful to his/her research Below are two examples of what the formatting should look like for your annotations. Please use the following format for each of your five summaries. Note the reference at the top is a hanging indent format, bold, and italic. If you do not know how to create a hanging indent, let me know. Your paragraphs do not need to be double spaced. Annotated Bibliography format Examples Pourchot, T., & Smith, C.M., (1998). Adult learning and development: perspectives from educational psychology. New Jersey: Lawrence Eribaum Associate, Inc. (These citations will have hanging indents. If you do not know how to do one, contact the instructor) This book is divided into overlapping parts containing current theory and perspectives on adult intellectual development, cognition and learning with implications for the improving instructional methods. Another section distinguishes between learning and development as not being separate processes and focuses on Granott’s summary of a study on adult problem solving in collaborative groups. Piagetian theories of life-span development are discussing as well as research on sociocultural theory to account for adult learning. There is an overview of Vygotsky’s theory of cognitive development and sociocultural perspectives on adult learning and the implications for learning activities of young, middle-aged, and older adults. Metacognitive skills are also explored. Daloz, L., (1988). Beyond tribalism: renaming the good, the true and the beautiful. Adult Education Quarterly, 38, 234-241. The author, a mentor for adult students with the Johnson College External Degree Program, and faulty advisor with Lesley College, uses the term tribalism to describe the ethnocentrism that develops when someone is reared within the confines of a certain culture with limited exposure to varying view points, and so holds all the values and beliefs of that tribe as certain truths, and sees other ways as inferior. The article also explores balancing one’s identity with the tribe; how heightening consciousness may stress adults, and the value of a “second crossing” and “inner voice.” Adult educators are in the unique position of being participants in the growth process, as they observe and assist adults who are struggling with this movement toward self-actualization. This theory is aligned with that of Mezirow who, in the following article, illustrates the strain that gaining new perspectives may put on the learner in diverging from the known.