Annotated Bibliography Assignment
This assignment is designed as the first step to completing a sophomore/ junior level research paper. There will be many times throughout your collegiate career that professors will ask for an Annotated Bibliography to accompany research work. View this assignment as a building block to the end of the semester research paper.
Requirements:
· Annotated Bibliography will include 10 entries
· Sources will consist of: six academic (library, scholarly, peer-reviewed journals) and four (popular) sources
· No more than two to four entries per page
· Cited in APA format (unless an English major)
· Double-spaced
· Each entry should contain: a summation of the article, an analysis of the information, and a reflection of how it should be used in your large paper.
· Entries are no longer than SIX sentences
· One inch margins on all sides
· Includes an abstract of research paper
Abstract: A summary of research
· Length: 150 to 250 Words
· Single paragraph
· Double-spaced
· Contain your research topic, methods, data, and conclusions
· Possible implications for your research and future work that may be valuable (for you or others)
· A thesis statement
· Contains no “copying” from the research paper except thesis statement
The idea of an abstract is to allow readers to decide if the information your paper provides is what they are looking for. Think of this as an Introduction to your paper—that completely summarizes what the big paper is about. During your research you will find that abstracts have the ability to save researchers an enormous amount of time. By being purposeful about your summation and practicing brevity—future researchers will thank you.
Topic – Business Etiquette
How do different genders approach business etiquette in meetings?
We will employ the use of a focus group to collect our research. Focus groups will allow our participants to discuss the topic and respond to questions within a group of their peers. This will help to absolve any feeling of discomfort and promote participation and interaction because of the personal nature of a focus group. Furthermore focus groups generally offer a wider range of opinions than one-on-one interviews.
The personal nature of the focus group will make an office boardroom or meeting space ideal to conduct our research. This site will be convenient for our sample group because they will not have to go out of their way or leave their workplace to participate. In order to have a representative sample population, we intend to have 6-12 employees participate, equal distributions of male and female employees.
We will need one mediator to conduct the focus group and a second individual to take notes and make observations while the focus group is being conducted.
Focus Group: Questions – we will encourage the participants in our focus group to elaborate upon their answers and give personal anecdotes to support their responses. We believe the use of 5 questions will give us sufficient data and allow for an appropriate amount of discussion for each member of the focus group.
Questions:
1. During a business discussion, do you feel that it is appropriate to interject or interrupt a co-worker?
2. How much notice do you feel is an appropriate amount to cancel or reschedule a meeting?
3. When conducting a meeting in a non-conventional meeting space such as at a restaurant, do you feel obligated to observe typical business etiquette?
4. When do you feel it is appropriate to use a cell phone during a meeting?
5. What type of information do you feel is appropriate to divulge upon first meeting somewhat in a professional setting?

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