For this first part of your Communication Research Project, your goal is to locate 12 scholarly journal articles that (1) focus on one area of study in the field of Communication Studies and (2) are published within a Communication Studies journal. Each article must be published in a Communication Studies journal. Conference presentations and book reviews are not allowed. You are also not allowed to use journal articles read for this course.

You are now ready to complete the second part of your Communication Research Project in this course, your annotative bibliography. You have already located 12 scholarly journal articles that (1) focus on one area of study in the field of Communication Studies (Links to an external site.) and (2) are published within a Communication Studies journal.

You will create an annotative bibliography of communication studies research that focuses on a single area of study. I urge you to use the same area of study you focused on when completing your APA Citation List. You annotative bibliography will include the following for each communication studies journal article you found earlier this semester. You will repeat the following 12 times, once for each article.

• APA Reference: You will cite your scholarly peer-reviewed journal article in APA format. Please use the Basics of APA Tutorial when double-checking that your citations are following APA format.
• Article Permalink: You will include the permalink to the journal article. Read more about library permalinks at, http://libguides.sjsu.edu/permalinks (Links to an external site.). Do not attach the journal articles to this assignment.
• Article Summary (300-400 words): Your summary should be written in your own words with no evaluation or critique of the article. DO NOT QUOTE from the article. You are paraphrasing all the material into your own words. Do not include in-text citations when writing annotative bibliographies. You will only be summarizing the articles in your own words and there will be a citation above your summary. You should not mention the authors’ names or the article or publication name. Please refer to the authors as “authors” when summarizing their work. Please use the following questions as a guide when writing up your summary: What is the topic of the journal article? Is this a research article analyzing a communication phenomenon or a theoretical discussion of a communication topic? What are the main arguments/questions asked? What paradigm do the research/arguments follow? What theories were driving the research study or discussion? How did the authors conduct their research study, what did they do to collect data? If no research was collected, what did they discuss and why is it important to consider? What results or implications of their writings (usually found in the conclusion or discussion section)?

Here is a sample document showing you how you should format your Annotative Bibliography, Sample Annotative Bibliography.docx.

This annotative bibliography should be submitted as a single document. This is not an essay. The paper should include the headers, content, and lengths described above.

Please keep in mind that each article should be published in a Communication Studies journal. Conference presentations and book reviews are not allowed. You may need to rework your APA Citation List if you did not find 12 communication studies journal articles for this two-part Communication Research Project.

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