****NOTE: This project is expected to the instructions listed below. While the APA style expectations on this site aligns with our use of the 7th Edition, the content recommendations on this site (and other sites dedicated to helping you build a strong annotated bibliography) may not be consistent with what is required for this course. Therefore:
At minimum, for DIGI 700 each review must include the following items:
Current APA-formatted references
One paragraph including as many items below as possible:
o The Purpose of the study
o Research design
o Setting
o Number of participants and type of sample
o Data collection method(s)
o Data analysis procedures
o Summary of key findings
o Limitations and recommendations for future research
A second paragraph including:
o A clear topic sentence regarding how this paper will contribute to the overall study;
o Followed by a relevantly cited quote or statistic that could be directly applied to your research;
o And supporting information.
o Note: This should still be formally written with no first-person writing even though it is pinpointing what will be in your future study.
Papers turned in for Annotated Bibliography: Draft and Final Assignments should also include a cover page, running header, page numbers, a properly formatted abstract which explains what the study is going to be about, abstract keywords, and the annotations should be in alphabetical order.

Within the Instructions area of this course for the Annotated Bibliography a WORD document sample is provided called APA7_Sample Annotated Bibliography.
Annotated Bibliography: Draft Assignment
For this assignment, you will be required to have found/researched a minimum of 5 studies that may be relevant to your future research on your topic of interest. These five annotations are going to be a part of the final 25 that are required to be for the Annotated Bibliography: Final Assignment. This is NOT a rough draft and your 5 sources due in this assignment should be professionally completed. However, your instructor will review the first five and give feedback regarding your formatting, information being gathered, and relevancy. This should be corrected and items noted should be corrected for your Annotated Bibliography: Final Assignment.

Annotated Bibliography: Final Assignment
For this assignment, you will be required to have found/researched a minimum of 25 studies that may be relevant to your future research on your topic of interest. These 25 annotations will include the edited sources written the Annotated Bibliography: Final Draft Assignment.

Helpful Advice
Choose your topic carefully. This may eventually be the focus of your dissertation research.
Access the research journals through education databases within the library, such as Academic Search Complete.
The 25 sources should be data-driven research journal articles that contain traditional aspects of research: research questions, methods, findings, discussion, etc.
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the SafeAssign plagiarism tool.
Please use this checklist to self-verify that you have completed the assignment and organized it correctly. Have you:

Yes/No Checklist Item
Located AND Read the Annotated Bibliography Instructions Sheet?
Located AND Read the Annotated Bibliography Sample Bib Sheet?
Located AND Read the W2 and W7 Grading Rubrics?
Put your annotations in alphabetical order?
Written an abstract on page 2 even though the sample doesnt show one?
Does your abstract have Keywords? And is it formatted as APA expects?
Does your abstract describe the research study that you will be conducting if you were to write this research paper using these articles?
Written 2 paragraphs, in-depth, answering as many of the items in the lists as possible PER annotation?
Do you have clear topic sentences for all your annotations followed by quality research statements?
Does your cover page look like the sample provided?
In W2 do you have 5 annotations completed and W7 is there a total of 25?
Is the first line flesh-left of your Annotation and EVERY line subsequently indented as shown in the sample?
Do you have page numbers in your cites for all your statistics and quotes?
Did you double check all your annotations are done properly in APA EVEN though they may have come from the digital library.
Are you using the proper version of APA?
Did you eliminate all first-person writing?
Are all your annotations from peer-reviewed articles or empirical research?
Is your font APA approved?
Do you have your running header starting on page 2?
Do you have your page numbers properly formatted?
Did you review your grammar using editing and a grammar tool suggested?
Is your topic a Strategic Communication topic?
Did you use Times-New Roman, 12 point font or double checked that you have used APA approved font?