Week 3 CONCEPT CHECK ASSIGNMENT: Your First Key Source Selection

About This Assignment

This assignment just ensures you’re progressing in the required work by having you submit the first article you’ve chosen for review.

Objectives

This assignment will guide your learning process to ensure you can:

• Demonstrate your ability to use library databases for research, ensuring the credibility of sources, and documenting the selection, analysis, and organization of sources by working on an Annotated Bibliography. (CLOs C and D)
• Demonstrate your knowledge of Zotero (or similar bibliographic software) to capture bibliography data, including annotation fields, and ensure appropriate formatting of citations and sources. (CLOs C, D, and E)
• Begin the journey of developing note-taking habits and strategies that streamline their research process and synthesis process. (CLO D)

(CLO) stands for Course Learning Objective. (MLO) stands for Module Learning Objective. You will find a complete list of Course Learning Objectives in the Syllabus and on the Start Here: Course Overview page. Module Objectives are listed on the Module Introduction pages. Each Assignment Objective and Module Objective in this course has its associated course-level objective indicated in parentheses to clarify the relationship between the two.  

Guidelines

Feel free to use the tools in Zotero or from within the OU library search to complete your answer for this assignment. 

Academic Integrity

• Getting help on the quiz from your peers is not permitted.
• Collaborating, or completing the quiz with others in the class, is not permitted.
• Copying or reusing previous work is not permitted.
• Open-book research for the quiz is permitted and encouraged.