For this step of your final project's development, you will report the results of research into a resolution of the paper's workplace* communication problem topic in an Analytical Annotated Bibliography for three authoritative sources to use in the project to support the thesis.

 "Giving Credit Where Credit is Due: Attribution and Citation," of the academic integrity tutorialsto refresh your understanding of why scholars document their research with in-text citations and references.

Objective: the objective is to demonstrate the ability to research and critically analyze information that can support the project's thesis.

Caution: The three sources you use for this assignment must be different from the three that you wrote about in Assignment 1, literature review. Focus research for this step assignment on professional and scholarly business journal research and case studies on possible resolutions to mine or similar workplace communication problems.

For this assignment, document the research that must be done on possible resolutions of workplace* communication problems by writing an analytical annotated bibliography about three authoritative sources that were found in the UMGC library and plan to use them in the project to support the thesis. Look for professional and scholarly business journal research and case studies on possible resolutions to mine or similar workplace communication problems. leads to resources on research topics right in email by following the instructions at RSS + Alerts: What are they?to receive RSS and email alerts when new newspaper, magazine, and scholarly journal articles are made available by the library.

Although you may review the < Encyclopedia of Communication Theory > in our classroom resources to select and come to understand the communication theory or theories that you want to use in the final project, dictionaries and encyclopedias cannot be included in Analytical Annotated Bibliography or the references for the final project. A relevant video may be included as one of the internet sources, provided it has been evaluated for credibility.

Content:Review each resource for answers to as many of the following as possible:

• Describe each source's author
• Analyze each resource's purpose and audience
• Summarize each resource's main arguments and conclusions
• Assess each resource's information for relevance to the paper's research question
• Evaluate each resource's strengths, weaknesses, and/or biases
  • Explain how each resource's information will be used in the final research paper

Repeat the title of the assignment at the top of Page 2.

Provide the name of the communication theory used in the final project.

Provide the thesis working with at this point in the project's development.

the reference citation for each resource.

Construct a paragraph annotation of between one hundred and fifty to two hundred words that answer at least the following questions:

What is the resource about? Summarize its purpose, findings, argument, and/or conclusions.

What is theresource'sgreatest strength in relation to the project's focus?Assess the resource's strengths, weaknesses, or biases.

What role will the resource play in the project? Evaluate the resource's relevance to your project.

Repeat Nos. 5 and 6 above for each of your three sources.

find an example below of an analytical annotation from the UMGC Library's "How to Write an Annotated Bibliography" at Annotated Bibliographies. While not possible to accomplish here, the reference and the annotation should be spaced in documents formatted in word processing software such as MS Word.

Breeding evil. (2005, August 6).Economist, 376(8438), 9. Retrieved from http://www.economist.com

This editorial from the Economist describes the controversy surrounding video games and the effect they have on people who use them. The article points out that most critics of gaming are people over 40 and it is an issue of age not of the games themselves. While the author briefly mentions studies done around the issue of violence and gaming, he does not go into enough depth for the reader to truly know the range of studies that have actually been done in this area, other than to take his word that the research is unsatisfactory. The author of this article stresses the age factor over violence as the real reason for opposition to video games and stresses the good gaming has done in most areas of human life. This article is a good resource for those wanting to begin to explore the controversy surrounding video games; however, for anyone doing serious research, one should actually examine some of the research studies that have been done in this area rather than simply take the author's word that opposition to video games is simply due to an issue of generational divide.

Please pay attention to the last sentence of this annotation. It provides an example of a critique of an author's research.