Development Annotated Bibliographies Samples For Students

Ontario School Library Association. (2013). Legal and Ethical Use of Information. Retrieved from Accessola2: http://www.accessola2.com/data/6/rec_docs/134_worksheet_complete.pdf

This article talks about the various reasons why information is used dishonestly and strategies on how to improve this. It lists various reasons like stress, competition, lack of time and motivation as reasons to use information incorrectly. It also provides various strategies like doing research properly, re-writing in own words and giving credit where it is due as ways to get over this issue. It also provides various options and research available to learn to reference properly and the various referencing styles available ...

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The overall gross state product for North Carolina in 2010 was 424.9 billion U.S dollars. In the year 2011, the North Carolina’s labor force was about 4.5 million. The working populace in North Carolina is essentially employed across the key sectors of the employment. North Carolina is a key producer of furniture and textiles and leads the country in tobacco production. North Carolina grows 40 percent of United States tobacco. The state leads the nation in mineral resources production including mica, phosphate rock, feldspar, and lithium, among other important minerals. What’s more, the North Carolina’s Economy covers ...

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In an attempt to discuss the aspects of how marketing and advertisements have shaped people’s psychology, mood and attitude, a number of the preexisting literatures have been reviewed as a way of attempting out the severity and the gravity of the matter. There are quite a lot about the issues, with some touching on the currents trends, some digging into the issue of IMC and impact of social media. However, the topic still calls for a number of researches from the scholars and other practitioners.

Anghelcev, George, and Sela Sar. "In the Mood for the Right Kind of Social Marketing Communication." Journal of Social Marketing 4.1 (2014): 38-57. ProQuest. 10 Oct. 2014

In the above journal, George Anghelcev and Sela Sar argue that how effective a social marketing communication is ...

Browne, A. (2007). Teaching and learning communication, language and literacy. London Thousand Oaks, CA: Paul Chapman.

This is a comprehensive guide for teachers and it offers teaching and learning of communication literacy and language in the early stages (3-5 years). In his work, Browne (2007) draws on research findings and good practice that provide practical guidance regarding working with children in reception and nursery classes. The book further examines how young children progress as learners and users of literacy and language and the combination that school and home make in children’s learning. Browne (2007) locates learning in a curriculum that is play based. It also provides rationale for making play a context and a resource for learning. Additionally, ...

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Anderson, M. & Ramos-Reid, R. (2011) Core competence-definition and dynamics in the not-for-profit sector. School of Management Blekinge Institute of Technology Sweden.

The study is among the few that treats the subject of core-competences (core capabilities) within the nonprofit sector, explaining how it applies to the not-for-profit operations. The core competences concept is related to the added value notion, and the authors of this study aim to identify how nonprofit organizations can generate added value by optimizing their internal resources. Developing a multi-case study analysis, the book identifies that nonprofit operations follow the same patterns as for profit organizations for ...

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Ethics is important in any professional body. This paper focuses on some of the ethical studies done on urban development in regional and town planning. Through the paper, one will examine some of the sources that will be used while dealing with the mentioned topic. Most of the sources that have been used in this annotated bibliography are American. This is because one believes America has a more ethical background in ethical issues dealing with urban development. In addition, the chosen articles are more relevant and deeply researched making them more appropriate for the study. By using American ...

Blackburn, M., Busser, R. & Nauman A. (2001). Removing Requirement Defects and Automating Test. Software Productivity Consortium NFP

This article underscores the problems that impede operations and growth. In this regard, the article discusses model based approaches to reducing defects in the production process. The article discusses the use of model-based approaches in order to reduce defects, reworks and rejects in order to increase scheduled savings and reduce costs. Automation of development and tests is important in the production process. According to the authors of the article, automation in this way helps reduce resources and time in an attempt to develop high quality production systems. This article is important for this topic as it gives a different perspective ...

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Hollis, N. (2013). The meaningful brand: how strong brands make more money. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
The book tries to identify how the brand of the product has been used by the marketers to unlock the financial development and growth in value. The meaningful and differentiated strategy has been the order of the current market hence making it a hypercompetitive. The book tries to point out the best strategies employed to cater and in fetching high prices. Brands of the products are differentiated in a manner of finding the appropriate large market share. This is in the objective of getting ...

Lake, J., W. (2007) Textbook if integrative mental healthcare. New York: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc.

Western medicine has been leading the medical advances in the treatment of mental health for ages, but recently a revision of the of mental healthcare is required, for defining a more compelling and integrative treatment. This is the main substance of James H. Lake’s study – “Textbook of Integrative Mental Health”. The author explains how the western medicine, considered the most advanced healthcare provider due to its technological integration and scientific research, is currently not enough for treating patients suffering of mental problems. Besides, Lake ...

Wisse, B. (2014). Hypothyroidism: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia. Retrieved December 14, 2014, from http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000353.htm

This reference is a National Institutes of Health website that focuses mainly on the basic information on hypothyroidism. This reference provides an introduction into the topic by defining hypothyroidism as well as providing various causes of hypothyroidism. The website also offers information on the symptoms of the condition, different tests that are used to diagnose the disease as well as different treatment options. The information from the paper will be useful in introducing the paper and giving basic concepts on the topic.

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Brewer, N.T., Chapman, G.B., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., McCaul, K.D., and Weinstein, N.D. "Meta-analysis of the relationship between risk perception and health behavior: The example of vaccination." Health Psychology, 26(2) (2007): 136-145.

The study examines the relationship between perceived risk of flu and health behavior shown by the people. The study informs how higher perceived risk can increase the immunization rate and result into positive health behavior of the people. The source is very useful in understanding health behavior shown by different groups of the people, and also in understanding how rate of flu immunization can ...

Coghlan, A., & Pearce, P. (2010). Tracking affective components of satisfaction. Tourism and

One doctoral study research student and a professor at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia undertook to answer questions about links between what motivates tourists in their activities, by tracking affective components of satisfaction. The study selects a number of tourists on dynamic volunteer tourism expeditions. The methodology used was participant long form entry in a diary written communication and analyzed in the group and individual settings. The researchers tried to look for patterns in general levels of satisfactions and how this changed over time, and linked to personality characteristics and daily activity. The study concluded that satisfaction levels do not always ...

Cantu, R.c.. "Concussion in Professional Football: Morphology of Brain Injuries in the NFL Concussion." Yearbook of Sports Medicine 2010 (2010): 23-24. Print.

In this article the author starts by trying to bring into light what very few aspiring footballers want to hear. In this piece of writing the author categorically describe the concussions and all the other injuries that happen as harzardous. The reason of the author carried out this whole experiment is because he wanted to show the real impact of the concussion on the brain. The demonstration was conducted using a Winstar rat weighing three hundred grams and hit on the head with an impactor of fifty grams moving at a velocities of 7.4 to 11.2 m/s. In his findings, he ...

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This paper demonstrates in detail on the outcome of divorce on a child. It entails that as a result of divorce, it brings about insecurity on the child, and it can also cause a child to become vulnerable when dealing with relationships of their own. A child tends to have a desire to be wanted, and hence this shows that children go through negative implications as a result of divorce (Das, 2011). Furthermore, divorce contributes to unhappiness among children as they are exposed to a high level of discrepancy from their co-parents before and after separation. This is so as a child has a tendency to have ...

Aubrey, J.S., & Frisby, C.M. (2011). Sexual objectification in music videos: a content analysis comparing gender and genre. Mass Communication and Society 14: 475-501.

In this article, Aubrey and Frisby (2011) create a coding system which measures the correlations between representations of women and sexual objectification. According to their findings, female artists provide a greater amount of sexual objectification in their videos, and are placed under greater pressure to appear more attractive and glamorous. They are also more likely to showcase sexually suggestive behavior and attitudes. This evidences adds to the argument that women are problematically presented in popular culture and media, as they are placed under a male gaze to be as attractive as possible; a woman’s sexuality is shown to be her primary feature, ...