Examine how the article relates to your topic, healthcare setting, and/or research question and write a few sentences on your findings

Annotated Bibliography

At this point, you should have an approved topic and research question for your final project and know how to use RefWorks for saving and organizing library resources. Now it’s time to start collecting research articles from quality peer-reviewed journals that you will use in your final paper. An annotated bibliography supports research paper writing by helping you to focus on the relevance and quality of the research in the articles you find.

In this week’s assignment, you will start gathering, summarizing, and examining peer-reviewed articles that are relevant to your topic and research question. From these articles, you will select 5, one of which directly addresses your topic’s defined healthcare delivery setting; the other four should be related to the topic or research question. For each of the five articles:

Write a brief summary of the article.

Examine how the article relates to your topic, healthcare setting, and/or research question and write a few sentences on your findings. Consider the following in your examination:

Background or authority of the author(s)

How the research relates to your topic or contributes to your thesis

Submit an APA style, Annotated Bibliography as a word document. See the UNE Library web page on Writing an annotated bibliography for assistance. Refer to the Annotated Bibliography Rubric in the syllabus or under the assignment in My Grades for submission guidelines.