Academic Research: The Annotated Bibliography

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Academic Research The Annotated Bibliography

• Writing in CSD

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Getting Started

• Do preliminary searching
• Decide on a topic

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Formulate Question/Statement

• I am studying ____________ because I want to find
  out __________ in order to understand
  _____________.

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Sample statement

• I am studying cochlear implants in children
  because I want to find out how language
  production is affected in order to understand
  what improvements may be expected in children
  implanted at a young age.

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Gathering Data

• Check a variety of sources
• Review the sources
• Actively read and take notes

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Documenting your information

• Why document?
• To avoid plagiarism and give credit to the
  author(s)
• To allow others to access your sources
• To validate your own work

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• Documentation in scholarly research appears as
  
• In-text citations
• References

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Compiling the Annotated Bibliography

• Alphabetize
• Check spacing and indentation
• Use proper format for individual entries

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Bibliographic Record FormatPeriodicals

• Bekerian, D. A. (1993). In search of the
  typical eyewitness. American Psychologist, 48,
  574-576.

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Nonperiodicals

• Cone, J. D., Foster, S. L. (1994).
  Dissertations and theses from start to finish
  Psychology and related fields. Washington, DC
  American Psychological Association.

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Part of a nonperiodical

• Kernis, M. H., Cornell, D. P., Sun, C. R.,
  Berry, A. (1996). Theres more to self-esteem
  than whether it is high or low. In H. L.
  Roediger F. I. Craik (Eds.), Varieties of
  memory and consciousness (pp. 309-330).
  Hillsdale, NJ Erlbaum.

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Annotations

• Brief notes
• Should be complete and useful
• Watch for plagiarism