An Annotated Bibliography will be developed including Five Annotated Citations. With the exception of the first, these references will be based on this topic : The effects of watching television for young children are detrimental to language development.
The First annotated citation will be on the Topic of the "Legal and Ethical Dimensions of the Use of Information." This information can be obtained from the Internet using a search engine such as ONE SEARCH on the CSUN Oviatt Library Home page, or Google. The annotated citation should be in APA format as much as possible, and should include the URL (address) of the of the Internet site; or a citation of the book or article if that was used. The annotation should provide a short overview of the article and/or list the most critical points. Please note that the subject of this article need not be associated with language Development. It only needs to address information delivery.
The second two of these citations will be full Text articles or books obtained through Databases of professional books and journals available at, or online through the CSUN Library. For more information on how to find these databases please see the discussion in the Class Requirements Section Online. These citations will be reported in APA format. Included in the annotation portion of each citation will be a paragraph, which briefly summarizes the article (you can usually get this information from the abstract), and answers following questions:
- What is the background of the author (viz., degree and type of education, affiliated institution, history of research in the area as perhaps reflected by past articles in the bibliography)?
- Who is the intended audience (i.e., professionals, laypersons, women etc.)?
- How does this work compare or contrast with others you may have cited or be aware of? If you are not aware of any others, simply state that as the situation.
- What is the scope and relevance of this work to the selected topic? What the heck do I mean by that? Well, is it highly or only vaguely relevant to the hypothesis; and is it of minor or major importance.
- The Last Two citations will be obtained through the Internet using any search engines provided online such as "Google Scholar." These citations will follow an APA format as closely as possible, including the URL information. Included in each citation will be a paragraph, which briefly summarizes the site, and addresses the following