ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ASSIGNMENT

DUE _______BY ______ ON LEARNING SUITE

POINTS: 100 points

Number of Sources: At least 10 peer-reviewed scholarly articles

Now that you have completed thorough research of your approved research topic, you will create an
annotated bibliography. The annotated bibliography assignment is meant to motivate you to take good
notes about both the main ideas of the sources you find and their potential application in your own paper.

An annotated bibliography requires you to list your sources in APA format and then document in 3-4
sentences both the source’s insight and major content as well as the source’s relevance to your topic and
research question.

I strongly suggest that you work on this source-by-source. Ideally, this allows you to quickly synthesize
your source material and work through the pain of APA citations well before your paper is due.

See Learning Suite (Content  Literature Review) for an example annotated bibliography from my days
as an undergrad. Use it as a model for format and approach. In that example, I divide my sources into
“online” and “print” sources. You can establish your own categories or ignore categories, your choice.

GRADING RUBRIC
I will grade using the following two criteria:
 To what extent does each entry document the source in APA references format both by individual
source and holistically? (30 pts.)
 To what extent does each entry adequately describe the content of the source and the source’s
relevance and application to your literature review? (70 pts.)

PAGE INFORMATION (PURPOSE, AUDIENCE, GENRE, EXPECTATIONS FOR LEARNING)

P: to organize your research and to prove that you have read and understood all sources
A: yours truly
G: APA annotated bibliography
E: Learning Outcomes Met by This Assignment:
1. Rhetorical Purpose
2. Style
3. Genre
4. Sources

EXAMPLE ENTRY
The entry below can be used as a model. Notice that the citation comes first (making it easy to find and
then Copy/Paste into your final paper). Immediately afterwards, the annotation begins. It demonstrates
understanding of the source’s main points, and then shows their application to the student’s project.

Börstler, J., Caspersen, M. E., & Nordström, M. (2016). Beauty and the beast: On the readability

of object-oriented example programs. Software Quality Journal, 24(2), 231-246.

doi://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11219-015-9267-5 This article presented a new model for

measuring readability based on an experiment that used object-oriented programming

examples. The new model is termed SRES (Software Readability Ease Score) and is

based on the code equivalents of average word length and average sentence length. The

authors found that the SRES model performed better than other models at predicting

readability for object-oriented examples. They recognize that their model is similar to the

model produced by Posnett. It will be of use when I evaluate different methods of

predicting readability as well as in my discussion of readability versus comprehension.