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COMPLETE THE ATTACHED DOCUMENT AND THEN PROCEED TO CREATE THE ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY.
For this assessment, complete your annotated bibliography with 10 scholarly, empirical research sources, published within the last five years.
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Introduction
Annotated bibliographies serve as an overview of the research. They help with summarizing and organizing key points from the research literature so that the role of the published research can be critically evaluated against the research topic. It is an important step prior to embarking on the literature review. A good annotated bibliography will help bridge main ideas from the research and your own independent ideas related to your research topic.
In this course, the annotated bibliography is the next step in the course project after the literature search. Your annotated bibliography will contribute to the research question as you use it to build the literature review. Addressing each source specifically and in detail allows key aspects to emerge. Furthermore, it enables the understanding of each researcher’s point of view. A complete annotated bibliography should result in clear themes that inform the research topic.
For this assessment, you will complete your annotated bibliography with 10 scholarly, empirical research sources, published within the last five years.
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Overview
Before completing this assessment, ensure that you have finalized your Research Topic Template (ATTACHED) and your research organization tool. Your topic should include psychological concepts and a population. Populate your research organization tool with 5-10 scholarly, empirical research sources. Completing the media pieces will enhance your understanding.
You have a choice to create a literature map as outlined in the course text or use the research organization tool provided through the Capella library’s Staying Organized & Keeping Track: Research Tools page.
This assessment consists of an annotated bibliography. However, it is important to see the trajectory of your work. Developing the research topic, the literature search question, and dissecting the literature are all part of understanding how you develop your annotated bibliography.
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Instructions
Use the media pieces to understand the components of the annotated bibliography. Make sure to number each source. Include 10 scholarly research sources, published within the last five years, for this assessment. Make sure to apply proper APA style and formatting. You will submit your annotated bibliography, research topic template, and your research organization tool of choice, as a single submission, but separate files.
NOTE: Your assessment will be returned if the topic template and research organization tool are not submitted.
Number each source.
Include a minimum of 10 empirical research sources.
Apply current APA formatting. Each annotation should include the citation of the source, just as it would appear in the reference list.
Identify the journal’s impact factor. (See Psychology PhD Library Research Guide: Source Quality.)
Identify the research question.
Identify the research problem that the author or authors hoped to resolve.
Identify the methods the authors used to investigate the research question.
Provide a summary of the findings.
Evaluate the work.
You can do this by addressing the arguments and counter arguments from research and that were made in the research study, or discussing the value that the research study findings have for the field—how it advances the knowledge base. Also, consider the strengths and areas were the research could expand.
Finally, discuss how the study supports your research topic.
To successfully complete this assessment, make sure to:
Finalize your research topic template. Check to make sure that the template has all sections filled out and that the topic has been narrowed as much as possible.
Finalize your research organization tool. At this point it should include 10 research articles. You have a choice to create a literature map as outlined in the course text or use one from the Capella library’s Staying Organized & Keeping Track: Research Tools page.
Understand the components of the annotated bibliography. Revisit the media to understand what you need to know. Make sure to include the content that has been outlined above.
Note: your literature review will require 20 sources because you will need to include theoretical research sources. You may exceed 10 sources for this assessment but you must include no fewer than 10.
The annotated bibliography assessment should contain 6–8 pages, including the cover page.
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Competencies Measured (address al competencies)
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment rubric criteria:
Competency 1: Determine the scientific merit of the professional literature.
Identify and describe the research problem that the author(s) hope to resolve.
Evaluate the research.
Discuss how the study supports the research topic.
Competency 2: Apply theoretical and research findings from the discipline of psychology to professional and academic activities.
Restate the research question in the article.
Identify the methods used to investigate the research question.
Summarize the research findings.
Competency 3: Apply ethical principles and standards of psychology to academic and professional activities.
Identify the source of the article as a peer-reviewed journal article reporting research.
Competency 5: Communicate psychological concepts effectively using the professional standards of the discipline.
Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
Exhibit proficiency in writing and use of APA (7th edition) style. Include a minimum of 10 scholarly research articles. Include the research topic template and the literature matrix.
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Research Topic Template
Using this template, you will write your first draft of the research topic you would like to develop
into a dissertation topic. The template will guide you step by step in doing so.
Step 1: Starting Out—Getting It on Paper
In each of the spaces below, write the elements of your research topic as directed. A successful
research topic:
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Names the key concepts to be investigated.
Describes the relationship (if any) between them.
Identifies the target population of interest.
Is sufficiently narrow and focused to permit research.
Is a phrase, not a complete sentence.
1.1 What are the key concepts you wish to investigate? Use terminology appropriate to your
specialization and discipline.
1.2 What are the relationships (if any) that you want to explore between or among your key
concepts?
1.3 What is your target population? Be as specific and descriptive as you can.
1.4 Good work. Now, combine all three elements into a single phrase. Write it as carefully as
you can and do not hesitate to rewrite it as often as needed. Your phrase should be clear,
well-worded, and articulate the topic statement.
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Step 2: Narrowing and Focusing the Topic
Here you will use an exercise to narrow your topic’s key concepts and population at least four
times. A helpful resource for this exercise is keyword searching. You can reach out to a
librarian for help with keyword searches.
As you try to focus your concepts more tightly, using keyword searching or subject searching in
the library databases will help you find alternative concept words. For instance, if you search on
a key concept term such as “management,” finding an article on management will also provide
you some new keywords used by that author or journal.
Please realize that once you get deeply into the literature and begin doing the multiple searches
you will ultimately carry out, your key concepts will become increasingly focused and powerful.
You may easily change them many more than four times, as you grow toward mastery of your
topical and methodological literature. For now, four iterations of the exercise will get you to a
fairly focused place, and will prepare you for your initial literature searches.
Follow the instructions below; complete the steps in sequential order.
Analysis, Findings, Discussion, and Ethics
2.1 Enter the first concept from your research topic in 1.4 in the first left-hand cell of the grid.
Enter the second key concept below it in the second cell. Continue entering all your key
concepts (if you need additional rows, click in the last cell and then press the Tab key to add
new rows).
2.2 For each concept, fill in the second column with a narrower term for that concept. Ask
yourself what you mean by the broad term, and try to find a term that is more focused. For
example, if your concept is learning, do you mean rote learning (learning by memorization)
or adaptation (learning by trial-and-error) or some specific kind such as learning to read or
learning to drive a car? If a concept is educational instruction, do you mean a level of
instruction (such as high school), a modality of instruction (such as lecture or audiovisual), or
some particular approach to instruction (such as experiential learning). Do not rush
yourself. Keep reflecting on what you really mean and want to know. Push yourself to be
as specific as possible.
2.3 Move to the third column when you are satisfied with the second column. For this iteration,
we recommend that you visit the library and start searching using the terms in the second
column. Do not link them; just search as broadly as you can on the single term. For
instance, if in the second column your key concept is now experiential learning, search just
on that term, and look for keywords or subjects. This will probably provide you with a
number of new terms from the literature, and you can browse them and decide which term
will allow you to further focus and narrow your key concept.
2.4 Lastly, when you are satisfied with the third column, go through the process a fourth time.
Once again, use the library and search on the term in the third column. Here, you may want
to make use of the database’s thesaurus or controlled vocabulary list. When you obtain a
variety of new terms, reflect carefully on them. Choose the term that both takes you where
you want to go and clearly expresses the key concept that you wish to investigate.
2.5 Enter the Target Population in the “2.5 Target Population” rows.
Refining Key Concepts
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Step 2.1
Step 2.2
Step 2.3
Step 2.4
Broad Term
Narrow
More Narrow
Most Narrow
2.5 Target Population
Step 3: Writing the New Research Topic
In the space below, write—as a single phrase—your research topic, using the words in the
fourth column. Leave out extra words, omit any verbs (unless they are key concepts), and use
no modifiers. Work to craft a clean, concise, and very clear phrase. Even if it is in quite specific
terminology used by your discipline, it should be immediately understandable to a member of
your specialization.
Once approved, this will be the topic that you will use to conduct your literature search, literature
review, and concept paper.
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