Ed Scholarship Library Session

CHAT:
What is your proposed question?

MEHP Librarian

YOUR ASSIGNMENT

GOAL:
Take a strategic approach to tackling the annotated bibliography and better understand the qualities of a strong annotation.

Tonight

• Annotation Break Down
• Examples
• Practice
• Final tips.

CHAT:

What is an annotated bibliography?

Citation + Annotation.

YOUR ASSIGNMENT

• Lit search, 4-6 peer reviewed articles
• 2 review articles,max
• 4 annotations

YOUR ASSIGNMENT

• Full citation (APA or MLA).
• 2 review articlesmax
• Summary (3-4 sentences)
• Relevance (3-4 sentences)

Steps to the Annotated Bib

• Find Source
• Read Sources
• Identify Most Relevant Sources
• Cite Sources
• Write Annotations
• Put it together

Find your sources

POLL:
Where do you typically go for literature?

CHAT:

Where do you think is the best place to go?

Where?

• Education Guide
• Databases used for other assignment
• Sources you found for other assignments.

Where not?

• Course readings/reserves.
• Sources listed in your syllabus
• Google.
• Non-scholarly sources.

Peer Reviewed

Read your Sources and Commit

Read each source AT LEAST twice.

Take notes as you are reading.

Make the commitment.
Do it.
Give yourself plenty of time.

guides.library.jhu.edu/
lit-review/summarize

Identify the best sources

Cite your Sources

APA Resources

• APA Manual
• APA Blog
• RefWorks
• Purdue Owl
• APA Style Central

MLA Resources

• MLA Handboo
• RefWorks
• Purdue Owl
• MLA Style Central

Write your Annotations

YOUR ASSIGNMENT

• Full citation (APA or MLA).
• 2 review articlesmax
• Summary (3-4 sentences)
• Relevance (3-4 sentences)

CHAT:

What should be included in the summary?

Summary

• Highlight the main points or findings
• Describe the accuracy and quality of the source
• Note the methods, data collection and analysi

Comment on intended audience

Summary: Paraphrase

Relevance

• Authority of the author
• Strength and relevance of the argument, evidence, sources, methodology, conclusion

Bottom line:
How does this add to or inform your topic?

Use of the First Person

• Allowed by APA
• Encouraged to avoid awkwardness
• Use sparingly
• See APA Manual pp. 69-70.

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Put it together

Put it together

• Start with proposed question
• Check and double check APA/MLA style.
• Read, revise, rewrite

Steps to the Annotated Bib

• Find Source
• Read Sources
• Identify Most Relevant Sources
• Cite Sources
• Write Annotations
• Put it together

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POLL:
Do you feel more confident in creating your annotated bibliography after participating in this workshop?

Remember why you are doing this...

Purpose

• Explore topic.
• Appraise issues or factors associated with your professional practice and topic.
• Help you get started with the literature review for your capstone.
• Think critically about your topic, and the literature.

Will help identify and articulate:

• Relationships between practical problem,
• theoretical constructs
• design of the project,
• available measures and analysis tools,
• conclusions drawn from research findings.

Get to work!