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What is an Annotated Bibliography?
An annotated bibliography is a list of sources, each with two parts: a citation and an annotation. The citation gives full details of the source, while the annotation summarizes the source’s content and evaluates its value, credibility, and any potential bias.
What Does an Annotated Bibliography Assess?
An annotated bibliography helps evaluate several skills:
- A student’s ability to find and manage information
- A student’s ability to research, analyze, and understand information
- A student’s ability to organize, summarize, and paraphrase information
- A student’s ability to compare different sources and collect relevant data
- A student’s ability to correctly reference sources
How is an Annotated Bibliography Assessed?
Professors may assess the bibliography by looking at how well students evaluate sources based on criteria like value, credibility, bias, reliability, and timeliness. They may also ask for additional information, such as a list of related sources.
Annotated Bibliography
Each student will:
- Choose one of the shared theories presented in McEwen & Willis Chapters 13-18, or identify another from the current nursing literature for review in nursing research. (Note: if you select a theory not discussed in the text, please check with your faculty).
- Access CINAHL and identify two nursing research studies that used the theory in their work (maybe as a conceptual framework, but maybe testing the theory). Be aware that since these are non-nursing theories, much of the research that uses them is from other disciplines. For this assignment, we are interested in how nursing researchers use them (i.e. select nursing journals).
- Create an annotated bibliography (if you are unfamiliar with this term, please look it up and an example is also provided here). Focus your notation on how the theory was used for the study-not the process, methods, or findings of the study!!!
- Create a reference list and title page (APA)
Reference
https://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/cite-write/citation-style-guides/annotated-bibliography
Rubric
| Criteria | Ratings | Pts | ||
| Two Primary Nursing StudiesTwo Primary Nursing studies selected for bibliography | 2 ptsFull Marks | 1 pts1 primary nursing study selected 1 primary nursing study selected | 0 ptsNo MarksArticles selected are not of primary nursing studies | 2 pts |
| Description of how non-nursing theory was used in nursing research.Description for each study must be at least 3-4 sentences per article.Student describes the researcher’s use of the theory. | 2 ptsFull Marks | 1 pts1 markOne description adequately describes how the theory was used in the study | 0 ptsNo MarksDescription do not reflect how theory was used by the researchers | 2 pts |
| Spelling, Grammar, FormattingFree from spelling, grammatical, and formatting (APA 7th edition) errors, included reference list and the title page in APA 7th edition | 1 ptsFull Marks | 0.5 ptsHalf MarkLess than 3 spelling, grammatical, and formatting errors. | 0 ptsNo MarksGreater than 3 spelling, grammatical and formatting errors | 1 pts |
| Total Points | 5 | |||
