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I’m working on a research & summaries project and need a sample draft to help me learn.

The topic for my research paper is: The Efficacy of Drug Courts

The Annotated Bibliography Assignment is designed to give students a structure for critically analyzing citations to books, articles, and other academic sources. An annotated bibliography is comprised of numerous annotations which are summaries that explains, describes, or evaluates a source.  It varies in length from one paragraph to several pages.  It informs the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of each source that is cited. The annotated bibliography should be closely associated with the topic chosen for the Term/Research Paper Assignment and each citation should appear as a reference in the Term/Research Paper Assignment. The Annotated Bibliography Assignment should include at least eight (8) individual references from peer-reviewed scholarly literature and contain at least 250 words per annotation for each reference (Wikipedia or blogs CANNOT be used as a reference). Students will format their paper using 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and double spacing.  Students, please adhere to the grading rubric for annotated bibliography.  

Each annotation should reflect: 

1. The scholar/researcher experience and education on the topic.
2. The purpose and scope (or thesis) of the article.
3. The research methods used (qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods).
4. The scholar/researcher intended audience for the article.
5. The scholar/researcher’s bias on the topic.
6. The scholar/researcher’s research questions, findings, limitations, conclusions, and recommendations.
7. The student’s analysis of the article strengths and weaknesses.
8. The student should provide the relevancy of the academic source to the research paper topic.
9. The student should compare and/or contrast this work with another work cited in the bibliography.