Annotated Bibliography For the Literature Review Paper, you are building an argu

Annotated Bibliography
For the Literature Review Paper, you are building an argument to
persuade readers to accept your interpretation of the existing scientific
literature pertaining to your topic. At this point in the process, you have
selected a topic and received feedback from your instructor about its suitability.
Now, you need to further explore the scientific literature concerning your
topic. The purpose of the current assignment is to ensure that you obtain a
truly comprehensive overview of the scientific research that exists on the
topic that you selected. To write a comprehensive literature review of any
topic, you need to read lots of the existing research on the topic. For the
present assignment, you are going to find and read at least 15 potential primary, peer-reviewed sources directly related
to your topic, and then you are going to look for issues or themes that are
common to all of your sources.
Then you will create an annotated bibliography of the at least 15 primary, peer-reviewed sources
that you found. An annotated bibliography is an APA-formatted references list
that includes a brief summary and analysis – the annotation – under each
reference entry. Creating an annotated
bibliography is a useful step in the process of publishing a research paper,
especially a comphrensive literature review paper. For the current assignment,
the annotation for each source in your references list will be 2 sentences long
and will address:
· the main findings and
conclusions/observations reached by the author(s)
· the relevance of the research study to your thesis
(i.e., an explanation how the study findings/conclusions directly support your
proposed thesis)
Please note that the abstract of a paper is not the same thing
as an annotation. For this assignment, please do not simply copy information
from the source’s abstract. The annotation needs to be in your own words
and it needs to explain the relevance of the source to your particular thesis.
Thesis Statement
To formally present the argument in your paper, you will need to create
a thesis statement—a single sentence that serves as a summary of the argument/rationale
that you intend to present in the rest of your paper.
In order to create a credible thesis statement, you will need to read extensively
about your topic and give significant thought to what you have read. This
process involves collecting, reading, organizing, and analyzing evidence. As
you read, you will look for possible relationships between known facts (e.g., recurrent
patterns of finding, surprising contrasts or similarities), and think about the
significance of these patterns or relationships. As you do this reading and thinking,
you will formulate a “working thesis,” an argument that you think you can
support with evidence, but that ay need some adjustment along the way.
Remember, one key feature that distinguishes a
literature review paper from research papers that students typically are used
to writing is that with literature review papers, you allow the existing
literature to guide the formation of your thesis rather than formulating a thesis
and then looking for research to support it.
Practically speaking, when writing a literature review, you explore the
published research on a specific topic (often hundreds of articles) then look
for themes or patterns that are recurrently observed in the literature, and
your thesis will emerge from the themes/patterns that you observe.
Strong arguments have at least 3
main points supporting them. When
writing your thesis, please ensure that the (at least 3) main points of the
argument that you intend to present in your paper are made clear to the reader. For example, if you look at the thesis
provided in the Thesis and Annotated Bibliography Example assignment, you will
see the three main points of the intended argument… Development of
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is related to neuroanatomical and neurofunctional
abnormalities in specific brain pathways involved in: 1) information
processing, 2) behavioral initiation and 3) behavioral inhibition.
Content Requirements
· Provide a current APA-formatted title page
that includes a descriptive title for your paper.
· Write a thesis statement (a single sentence,
not an entire paragraph) that summarizes the argument that you intend to
present in your comprehensive Literature
Review Paper.
· Create an annotated bibliography that is
formatted according to current APA guidelines and contains the bibliographic
information for and brief annotation of the at least 15 potential primary, peer-reviewed sources that you found
while exploring the scientific literature on your topic.
Though not required, you also may utilize no more than 3 secondary so