Bureaucracy Paper Annotated Bibliography
POSC/CRJU 320 Public Administration
The Bureaucracy Paper requires research to better understand a government agency from the agency’s perspective but also the perspective of academia. Now that you have chosen a government agency to help you get started with the writing you can write an annotated bibliography. This will help you organize your research and will help you determine which sources are best to use for your paper. The Purdue Owl States that this list in an annotated bibliography should come from books, journals, and periodicals. (Purdue Owl) . This will also help you learn how to create citations in APA or MLA style. We will review in class how to write citations in APA style per document. Please use the library resources A-Z Databases Popular databases include JSTOR, CQ Researcher, Google Scholar, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, News Policy and Politics Magazine, Political Science databases, SAGE journals, Springer Link journals, and Wall Street Journal. Wiley Online Library.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Using these databases find 10 resources that provide more in-depth analysis than the information on the government agency website does. Use the following keys to analyze what information is most useful to you in creating works cited list to write a good research paper.
Keys to the purpose of the annotated bibliography.
#1 Summarize: The benefit here is that you know what the source says and how it relates to your government agency. This can also include topics covered and the perspective the article has on your agency. The more detailed the better as you can use this information in the paper to make supportive arguments as well as recommendations for the improvement of the agency.
#2 Reflect: Know that you have summarized rank the sources in order of importance did this article give a thorough analysis or did the article merely argue in a biased fashion either positively or negatively? Were these arguments in these sources effectively changing your mind about the agency? What perspectives did you learn that you were unaware of about this agency?
#3 Assessment: Reliability how useful is the information? Is there a methodology and a data section? How were these sections organized? Did you find this helpful? What data was used quantitative (data) or qualitative (interviews)? Was this use of data effective in convincing you about the reliability of the data?
