Category: Information Literacy

Initial Post: Due Thursday
Response Posts: Due Sunday
In this team discussion, you will practice the library research techniques discussed in the M2.2 module notes in order to gain experience finding high-quality sources in the Excelsior Library. 
Step 1: Identify a topic that you would enjoy researching. This can be a topic from
your work, your college major, or just something that you find interesting. It should be a topic that has been studied by academic researchers. Otherwise, the library might
not have any resources on it. 
Step 2: For the topic you selected, find one of each of the following types of sources: 
An e-book 
A peer-reviewed journal article 
A reference article 
Step 3: In an initial post, list the author(s) and title of the sources you found along with a perma-link to the source page in the library. (Click on the Permalink button to the right of the library catalog entry, then copy and paste the link into your post. See the illustration on the right.)
In your initial post, you should also write at least 150 words per source evaluating the quality of the sources you selected. Explain your reasoning using the criteria in the “Evaluating Information” section of the module notes.  
Step 4: Reply to the posts of at least two of your team members. In your replies, provide your own thoughts on the quality of the sources they have selected and the reasons they provided for evaluating the sources as they did. 

Initial Topic: “Can a song change a person’s emotions?”
Revised Topic: “Examining the Possible Effects of Songs on Human Emotions: A Study of the Effects of Songs on Emotional States.”Annotated Bibliography
Instructions for the Annotated Bibliography:
The annotated bibliography must be written using 7th edition APA format – and include a title page and bibliography page
Citations are to be in 7th edition APA-style,
Three resources are to be cited:
1 book https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/felician-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3421024
1 article https://web-p-ebscohost-com.felician.idm.oclc.org/ehost/detail/detail?vid=12&sid=6569dc36-e660-4fbd-bddd-7fd096cefcbc%40redis&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=176302640&db=a9h
1 website https://aimm.edu/blog/how-does-music-affect-your-mood
Each source must be a quality resource, (one that passes the CRAAP Test, a useful for an academic research paper on the assigned assignment).
Each annotation must be clear and concise.  Each must:
Be approximately 150 words,
State the main argument of the resource,
Provide important details about the resource,
Evaluate the resources using the CRAAP test criteria,
Assess the resource in at least 2 areas:
Methodology
Disciplinary perspective
Types of evidence
Audience
Be free of grammatical/spelling errors.