Literature Review Annotated Bibliography Assignment Instructions
Title: Impact of Technology on Job Design
Make sure that you focus on the organizational design and structure of these items when writing your paper.
Overview
Write a brief critical synopsis of each journal, book, etc. on your topic. After going through your reading list, you will have an abstract or annotation of each source you read. Later annotations are likely to include more references to other works since you will have your previous readings to compare, but, at this point, the important goal is to get accurate critical summaries of each individual work. Each reference must be formatted per APA and listed before the synopsis.
An annotated bibliography is a list of sources (books, journals, Web sites, periodicals, etc.) one has used for researching a topic (“Annotated Bibliographies”, 2021).
Instructions
For all sources used in your Literature Review you should:
· You should have a minimum of 15 sources.
Required resource:
Daft, R. L. (2016). Organization theory & design (12th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
Provide an APA formatted references (this should look like what you would include in a normal reference section.)
Summarize the source and discuss the research study that was conducted and what the findings were.
Assess the source and discuss how useful it is and how it compares with other sources in your paper.
Reflect on how the source will be useful to you in your Literature Review. How does it help to shape your argument and how are you using it to shape your writing?
Each annotation should look like:
Author (year). Title of article. Title of Journal, Vol no(issue). Pg to pg., URL or doi
In your summary, you will begin with a discussion of the research question the study is attempting to answer. You will summarize the research that was conducted and the specific findings that were uncovered. You will then provide a summary of what this means for the topic.
Next, you will discuss how the source compares with other sources in your paper and how useful is the source in attributing to your writing.
Finally, you will discuss how the source is useful in your Literature Review You will need to be specific on why it is important to use and exactly how you will use it in your writing to shape your arguments.