Annotated Bibliographies

POLL:
Where are you in the process of creating your annotated bibliography?

Annotated Bibliographies

POLL:
Where are you in the process of creating your annotated bibliography?

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

Major Elements for EdD

• Excel sheet
• Intro Essay
• POP Statement
• Citations
• Annotation

Tonight's focus is on the annotations.

Tonight

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

What are we not doing?

• Mechanics
• Formatting
• Writing Style
• Instructor-specific guidelines.

This session has been prepared using the assignment guidelines, rubric and resource provided to us by the EdD program. If your instructor has additional or different guidelines, always defer to the rules of the person grading you.

CHAT:

What is an annotated bibliography?

An annotated bibliography is a list of citations on a particular topic followed by an evaluation of the source’s argument and other relevant material including its intended audience, sources of evidence and methodology.

Steps to Completing the Annotated Bibliography Assignment

Get it done!

• Find sources
• Read sources
• Cite sources.
• Write annotations
• Review annotations.
• Put it together

Find your sources

Where?

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

What NOT to include?

• Books and book chapters.
• Reports and gov docs
• Non-peer reviewed sources
• Anything listed in course reserves or syllabus

Anything else?

• Anything not related to your POP
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• Anything that does not add to the dialogue of your POP.
• Information on solutions or interventions

Exceptions? Questions?
Ask your professor.

Remember you already have at LEAST 8 from DAE Reflection Papers

Read your Sources

Read each source AT LEAST twice.

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

Read 1: Take notes as you are reading.

Read 2: Review criteria from Excel template, then re-read. Focus on areas you already highlighted/annotated.

Excel Template

Remember: You need 40 sources in the template
(20 per class).

Cite your Sources

APA Resources

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

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Write your Annotations

Parts of an Annotation

• Description
• Evaluation

What goes where?

Refer to the Excel Template!

Summary: Paraphrase

Don't forget the
bottom line:
How does this add to or inform your POP?

Use of the First Person

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

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Practice Time

Instructions

• Open url (next slide)
• Find your group by last name
• Read the annotation
• Read the coding protocol
• Code the annotation
• Communicate with your group in Google docs
• Answer the question

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Discussion

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Put it together

Put it together

• Follow instructor guidelines
• Check and double check APA style.
• Write POP statement
• Write intro essay

Cannot duplicate sources for DAE and CAE courses.

You must choose.

Get it done!

• Find sources
• Read sources
• Cite sources.
• Write annotations
• Review annotations.
• Put it together

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lit-review/summarize

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

Remember why you are doing this...

Purpose

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

Don't forget...

You need 40, peer reviewed, empirical, primary sources...

You need to read, evaluate, cite, and annotate each of these sources...

These are the 40 MOST RELEVANT sources, not the first 40 you found...so...

You will need to find and read many more than just 40.

Get to work!

Action Steps

• Pull citations from reflection papers - add to Excel sheet.
• Start doc for annotations. Review text from reflection papers.
• Write annotations for sources you've already used in assignments.

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