GENERAL REQUIREMENTS: Annonated Bibliography
1) The
bibliography should consist of at least 10 records of publications, each
of them containing the following information:
publication] [title of publication] [journal/book title] [issue/volume]
[pages]. All records should follow the same format, the APA style is
recommended. See All Examples – APA – Referencing Guide – Help and
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2) At least five of the annotated texts should be published in the last 10 years.
3) Each record should be supplied by an abstract of 130-250 words.
These abstracts should be done by yourself, which means that they
should not be copies of the official abstracts provided by the authors
or the publishers of the cited publications.
STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS
STEP 1 Choose a topic
STEP 2 – Search the available e-resources for relevant publications
It is advisable to start the search using the search engine of Google Scholar.
Once you have found one or several articles which are particularly
interesting for you, you may find useful to continue by tracing the
papers which have cited them, using the facilities of Google Scholar.
STEP 3 -Select a list of (at least) 10 publications and write a short abstract for each of them
Depending on the topic, you may find at the beginning more than a
hundred publications which are relevant to your topic. That means that
you should select a more accountable subset of texts (consisting,
however, of no less than 10 titles). To facilitate your later task to
write a literature review on this topic, you are advised to abstract
publications which are interconnected – e.g. to select publications
which refer to other titles from your list or share references with
some of the other papers from the list.
Read the selected papers and
take notes of what they have contributed to the study of the topic of
your research. Then use your notes to create a short but meaningful
abstract for each paper. Remember that these abstracts should contain
useful hints to what to read again when, during the second semester,
you’ll be asked to write a literature review on the selected topic.
