Focus your research for this step assignment on professional and scholarly business journal research and case studies on possible resolutions to yours or similar workplace communication problems.
For this assignment, you will document the research you must do on possible resolutions of your workplace* communication problem by writing an analytical annotated bibliography about three authoritative sources that you found in the UMGC library and plan to use in your project to support your thesis. Look for professional and scholarly business journal research and case studies on possible resolutions to yours or similar workplace communication problems.
Content: Review each resource for answers to as much of the following as possible:
Describe each source’s author
Analyze each resource’s purpose and audience
Summarize each resource’s main arguments and conclusions
Assess each resource’s information for relevance to the paper’s research question
Evaluate each resource’s strengths, weaknesses and/or biases
Explain how each resource’s information will be used in the final research paper
Format: The Analytical Annotated Bibliography must contain the following information:
Use an APA-style title page.
Repeat the title of your assignment at the top of Page 2.
Provide the name of the communication theory you are using in your final project.
Provide the thesis you are working with at this point in your project’s development.
Create an APA-style reference citation for each resource.
Write a paragraph annotation of between 150-200 words (excluding APA-style reference) that answers at least the following questions:
What is the resource about? Summarize its purpose, findings, argument, and/or conclusions.
What is the resource’s greatest strength in relation to your project’s focus? Assess the resource’s strengths, weaknesses, or biases.
What role will the resource play in your project? Evaluate the resource’s relevance to your project.
Repeat Nos. 5 and 6 above for each of your three sources.
Example: Breeding evil. (2005, August 6). Economist, 376(8438), 9. Retrieved from http://www.economist.com
This editorial from the Economist describes the controversy surrounding video games and the effect they have on people who use them. The article points out that most critics of gaming are people over 40 and it is an issue of age not of the games themselves. While the author briefly mentions studies done around the issue of violence and gaming, he does not go into enough depth for the reader to truly know the range of studies that have actually been done in this area, other than to take his word that the research is unsatisfactory. The author of this article stresses the age factor over violence as the real reason for opposition to video games and stresses the good gaming has done in most areas of human life. This article is a good resource for those wanting to begin to explore the controversy surrounding video games; however, for anyone doing serious research, one should actually examine some of the research studies that have been done in this area rather than simply take the author’s word that opposition to video games is simply due to an issue of generational divide.
Please pay attention to the last sentence of this annotation. It provides an example of a critique of an author’s research.
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