PSY 3320 Time & Impact on Attitude & Behavior Changes

This week you will complete an Annotated Bibliography, which is due Sun. 3/14 at 11:59 PM. The purpose of the annotated bibliography assignment is to create a citation and summary of written works that have a theme or topic in common. Please review the Annotated Bibliography Guidelines located in the Research Paper Info folder on the left side of Blackboard for directions on what to include in your bibliography. This assignment requires that you: 1) Develop/revise a research question; 2) Find at least 10 research articles related to your research question; and 3) Write a 1 paragraph summary of each of your selected articles. Your assignment will be submitted to be checked for issues. While I understand that there will be some similarity/overlap with the articles, please make sure that your summaries are written in . Quotes are not allowed in any of your written assignments and everything should be written in with proper credit given to authors in APA format.

This week’s assignment is the beginning of writing your research paper, so please don’t delay in getting started. Developing a research question and finding 10 articles on PsycINFO can take a significant amount of and effort. You will then need to read and summarize each of the articles you select. As you are thinking about your research question and selecting your articles, please spend some thinking about how you will be putting this information together and writing a Lit Review followed by a Research Paper. I strongly recommend that you look over all the info and guidelines provided in the Research Paper Info folder. As you are summarizing your 10 articles for the Annotated Bibliography this week, keep in mind that you will be using these summaries for your Lit Review in a few weeks. Therefore, I recommend that you write your summaries in a way that you can easily use them in your Lit Review. One of the biggest problems students have when asked to summarize an article is that they tend to provide too much of the irrelevant details (such as where the study was conducted or the breakdown of participants) and not enough information related to what the results were and why they are important.