Gather 30 or more possible resources into what is called an annotated bibliography. This is simply a list of sources which, by their titles and their abstracts, you think may be worth reading. In this stage, you are not actually reading them through, but merely looking at their abstracts or summaries and skimming their content to judge whether these will be worth your time to read later.
For each of these 30 sources, compose your own three to five sentence summary that will concisely remind you and inform others of the article’s content. To come up with this many, assume you will need to skim through a hundred or so of the items found by your database search(es). Use what you have learned about search strategies, database selection, and key words to narrow down the references to those most relevant to your particular research statement/question. You can select many items then go through them all at once, deleting those which upon closer scrutiny don’t really pass the test for relevance. Alternatively, you can scrutinize them as you go. Either way, you are encouraged to create an account within the database if, as EBSCOhost’s Academic Search Premier database allows you to, so that you can save the results returned by a search and even an entire search along with its search criteria. Google Scholar searches can be saved by saving the url from a refined search. Articles found in Google Scholar have a number of options listed below the article name and description you may find helpful for this assignment.
Specifics
• Include your research question.
• Group your 30 or more sources by type books, articles, newspapers, or magazines
• Use APA formatting for your reference. Number your sources at the beginning of the reference for this assignment (1)
• At least two (2) of those 30 must be books.
• At least six (6) of those 30 must be from peer-reviewed journals.
