HSC 420 Occupational Health Annotated Bibliography

An annotated bibliography is an organizing tool that is helpful when working on a research project. The work you do for this assignment connects directly to and informs your mini-literature review paper. For this assignment, you will construct a formal annotated bibliography that includes APA citations for your sources with summary and evaluation information for each. The annotated bibliography is worth 20% of your final grade.

Your annotated bibliography will consist of journal articles that are peer-reviewed reports of empirical research that you identify through a systematic search of the library databases. The articles your select must be relevant to the issue and research question that you have selected to focus on for the semester and that I have approved. While you may encounter sources that are not relevant or do not fit the scope of your project while researching, for the purposes of this assignment, you will only include the ones that you find useful and relevant.
You are to identify 7-10 journal articles that are peer-reviewed reports of empirical research that you have deemed relevant to your issue and question of inquiry. Be certain to print the articles or save them to your computer or in the cloud. You will need to refer to the articles for your mini-litearture review paper.
For each article, create an APA citation. This is one of the central components of the grade for this assignment. The citations should be organized in alphabetical order by author just as in an APA reference page. Failure to follow APA format exactly will harm your grade.
Follow each article citation with a brief annotation that summarizes the source (150-200 words). The annotations for each source should follow an academic style. This includes using discipline related and research-specific vocabulary and correct grammatical sentences that effectively summarize what each source has to say. Additionally, you should explain how each source is relevant to the issue that you have selected and what it adds to your knowledge about your issue.
Do not copy and paste the abstract. Ideally, all of the annotation should be in your own words. If you quote from the source, the quote must adhere to APA conventions, without exception.
The assignment must be typed and double-spaced.