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You need to prepare two papers for this assignment.
1. The Annotated Bibliography
2. The Contribution Paper
Topic - Hybrid Electrical Vehicle
What is the advantage of Hybrid Electrical Vehicle? And the effects of Hybrid Electrical Vehicle.
For the Annotated Bibliography, I need 8 citations and Eight annotations, which should include the three features above: summary, assessment and reflection. Please include these aspects for each source in 80-100 words (please follow the word limit.) per annotation. Five sources must be peer-reviewed journal articles
For the Contribution Paper, I need an 8-10 pages, typed, double-spaced, using standard margins, type-size, and spacing. Remember to include an accurate bibliography in APA style paper. 9 pages will be great. (Details on below, and I will upload two examples paper.)
The Annotated Bibliography
Why should I write an Annotated Bibliography?
To learn about your topic: As you've probably already discovered, writing an annotated bibliography is excellent preparation for a research project. Just collecting sources for a bibliography is useful, but when you have to write annotations for each source, you're forced to read each source more carefully. You begin to read more critically instead of just collecting information. At the professional level, annotated bibliographies allow you to see what has been done in the literature and where your own research or scholarship can fit.
To help you formulate a thesis: Every good research paper is an argument. The purpose of research is to state and support a thesis. So a very important part of research is developing a thesis that is debatable, interesting, and current.
Writing an annotated bibliography can help you gain a good perspective on what is being said about your topic. By reading and responding to a variety of sources on a topic, you will start to see what the issues are, what people are arguing about, and you will be able to develop your own point of view.
To help other researchers: Extensive and scholarly annotated bibliographies are sometimes published. They provide a comprehensive overview of everything important that has been and is being said about that topic. You may not ever get your annotated bibliography published, but as a researcher, you might want to look for one that has been published about your topic.
To help facilitate a critical and engaged reading of each source, you should summarize and thoroughly evaluate the content of each article. This can be accomplished by composing an Annotated Bibliography using APA style. This Annotated Bibliography assignment should reference a minimum of eight scholarly sources--five must be peer-reviewed.
I recommend using the summary, assessment, and reflection method described on Purdue's OWL website (https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/):
- Summarize: Some annotations merely summarize the source. What are the main arguments? What is the point of this book or article? What topics are covered? If someone asked what this article/book is about, what would you say? The length of your annotations will determine how detailed your summary is.
- Assess: After summarizing a source, evaluate it. Is it a useful source? How does it compare with other sources in your bibliography? Is the information reliable? Is this source biased or objective?
- Reflect: Once you have summarized and assessed a source, you need to ask how it fits into your research. Was this source helpful to you? How does it help you shape your argument? How can you use this source in your research project? Has it changed how you think about your topic?
Assignment Guidelines:
Your annotated bibliography will include:
1. Eight citations, accompanied by
2. Eight annotations, which should include the three features above: summary, assessment and reflection. Please include these aspects for each source in 80-100 words per annotation.
3. Five sources must be peer-reviewed journal articles, with at least two different journals included in the citations. The other three should still be credible sources. If you have 6-8 peer-reviewed articles, please include at least three different peer-reviewed journals.
Please refer to Purdue OWL (https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/03/) for some examples of citations and annotations. This resource (https://www.bethel.edu/library/research/apa-annobib-sixth.pdf) is also a superbly helpful guide for formatting, though the examples lack evaluative depth.
The Contribution Paper (FINAL)
Purpose and Audience
When you write a contribution paper, your purpose is to present a new insight about the issue that you have selected to examine. When we say new insight, we mean a novel way of looking at something. This can be done in a number of ways. For example, if you are in the sciences, you might do studies to determine something new. If you are in the humanities, you might read what others have written and see something they may have overlooked or not considered. In some disciplines both approaches to contributing are accepted. In this paper you want to determine what you think would be accepted in your discipline. Do you want to do a study? Or, do you want to work from the texts of others? In writing your contribution paper, you are sharing your position concerning an issue, and developing a reasonable and well-supported argument for it based on the types of evidence that are valued in your major.
Step One: Engage the Scholarship
To begin your paper, you might think about some of the questions you have had concerning some aspect of your discipline or of academic life. Regardless of the question you choose, you must read a number of sources before writing in order to see what others have said about it.
Most likely there will be a large number of sources from which to draw. Your Annotated Bibliography should help you with the research. All will provide unique insights into the issue. Read the sources, annotating them in your journal. The key to annotation is to be systematic. You may want to provide an interpretative summary of the article or book chapter first and evaluate it for its strengths and weaknesses. Next, you want to map out the issue as each author sees it, how they define the problem, and what they think is the solution. In constructing this type of synthesis you can begin to see where you can make your contribution. What do the authors have in common? Where do they differ? What might they have overlooked or not considered?
Step Two: Implement a Focus
As you are reading and writing, you might notice that your ideas are becoming more narrowly focused and you are developing your own position about the issue. The way you proceed depends on your major. As mentioned earlier, you can choose to do a study or you can work with the sources and construct your own position. Let's look at one issue (test-taking) and see how it could be addressed. Someone interested in what students learn from test-taking, could actually interview students before and after they take an exam. Or, someone else might choose to do a review of the literature (focusing on pros and cons) and then take a position in favor or against test-taking.
Step Three: Develop an Argument
Do your best to come up with a new insight on the issue. You should aim to propose an understandable position that can be supported by evidence that is valued in your discipline (numbers, visuals, numerous examples, or quotations from the text). This assignment will help you identify an issue, construct a question about that issue, and answer it, using the conventions of your discipline. In writing a contribution paper, you are helping those in your discipline think about an issue in a different and positive way (some might say advancing knowledge). You are also helping others think about an issue in a novel way. For the purpose of this assignment, you should assume that your readers are not familiar with your issue, nor have they read all the sources you have. Convince them that your position/insight is plausible by presenting enough detail so that they are able to "see" it as you do.
Assignment Requirements
Your contribution paper should follow the conventions of your discipline (remember the ARIYD paper you did at the beginning of the term?). Your contribution paper should be between 8-10 pages, typed, double-spaced, using standard margins, type-size, and spacing. Remember to include an accurate bibliography in APA style.
The format for your individual paper depends, again, on your discipline of study. When you turn in your paper, you can always let me know which article you used as a model, or we can discuss the organization as you're creating a draft. Please refer to WEEK 14 for help with outlining a basic structure for your draft.
Attachment:- Contribution Paper Example.pdf