Portfolio Project: Annotated Bibliography
Format APA Volume of 2 pages (550 words) Description
Assignment type : Annotated Bibliography
Becoming a college student means that you have a responsibility to apply knowledge to advance your field and to make the world a better place. Through practicing critical thinking skills, we learn not only to avoid being manipulated in our thinking, but to fully support and provide evidence for our ideas. Your critical thinking journal, if you kept one, will help inform your final project. This option, if selected, will enable you to delve deeply into the literature on a specific problem you want to understand, examine, or analyze.
Write an 8-10 page critical thinking essay (not counting required title or reference page).
Summarize
Some annotations merely summarize the source. What are the main arguments? What is the point of this book or article? What topics are covered? If someone asked what this article/book is about, what would you say? The length of your annotations will determine how detailed your summary is.
Assess
After summarizing a source, it may be helpful to evaluate it. Is it a useful source? How does it compare with other sources in your bibliography? Is the information reliable? Is this source biased or objective? What is the goal of this source?
Reflect
Once you have summarized and assessed a source, you need to ask how it fits into your research. Was this source helpful to you? How does it help you shape your argument? How can you use this source in your research project? Has it changed how you think about your topic?
http://guides.library.cornell.edu/annotatedbibliography
Instructions
Begin the process of constructing your annotated bibliography by choosing a particular issue or problem. It could be related to your personal life or career path. The goal is then to align this problem or issue with a specific logic model from the text and/or other critical thinking tools you have been learning throughout the course. As you construct your presentation, utilize critical thinking tools to evaluate your data and your credible research, interpret this data, and understand your specific problem or issue from a broader, deeper, and more focused perspective. Accessing and implementing credible research from the CSU-Global Library is vitally important in the process of constructing your final presentation (and it will also be important in all your future coursework). Be sure to incorporate summary information from your Journal work to note questions and ideas that may have been clarified along the way for you. This is a place to synthesize your journaling efforts.
In constructing your annotated bibliography, you will utilize and integrate the Elements of Thought from Chapter 5, p. 104-122.
Your annotated bibliography must:
Take into account the scope: What types of sources should you use? (Books, articles, primary documents, websites, and non-print materials may be included.)
Include a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 30 scholarly peer-reviewed sources; if in doubt, get feedback from your instructor.
It is expected that you do not repeat scholarly peer-reviewed sources that you have cited in discussions and in previous papers. If you decide to include a credible website, refer to this resource the same way you locate academic and credible sources. (The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find these resources. You may cite the textbook, but that does not count as one of the scholarly peer-reviewed sources.)
Be formatted according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA.
Keep in mind the following preliminary deliverables throughout the course that will go toward completing your project:
Week 1: Submit Portfolio Project Outline (worth 25 points)
Week 4: Submit Portfolio Project Topic (worth 25 points)
Week 6: Submit Portfolio Project Outline (worth 25 points)
Refer to the Portfolio Project grading rubric found in the Module 8 folder to understand how you will be graded.
