The Annotated Bibliography Assignment on the topic of Unnecessary use of Force by Police Officers. An annotated bibliography consists of a descriptive and evaluative paragraph that informs the reader
GRADING RUBRIC FOR ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ASSIGNMENT
The Annotated Bibliography Assignment is designed to give students a structure for critically analyzing citations to books, articles, and other academic sources. An annotated bibliography consists of a descriptive and evaluative paragraph that informs the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of each source that is cited. The annotated bibliography should be closely associated with the topic chosen for the Term Paper Assignment and each citation should appear as a reference in the Term Paper Assignment. The Annotated Bibliography Assignment should include at least six (6) individual references from peer-reviewed scholarly literature and contain at least 250 words per annotation for each reference (Wikipedia or blogs CANNOT be used as a reference). Students will format their paper using 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and double spacing.
Each annotation should reflect:
Relevancy of the academic source to the Term Paper topic.
Thesis of the academic source.
Findings of the academic source.
The quality of the annotated bibliography will be graded according to the following Grading Rubric:
| CRITERIA | FAILED | DEVELOPING | SATISFACTORY | EXCELLENT |
| Relevant Academic Source Selection (10 percent) | 0 – 69% | 70 - 79% | 80 - 89% | 90 - 100% |
| Not present. | Selects 1-5 academic sources related to the course topic. | Selects 6 academic sources related to related to the course topic. | Selects more than 6 academic sources related to the course topic. | |
| Number of Citations (10 percent) | 0 – 69% | 70 - 79% | 80 - 89% | 90 - 100% |
| Not present. | 1-5 citations. | 6 citations. | Exceeds 6 citations. | |
| Annotation Word Count (20 percent) | 0 – 69% | 70 - 79% | 80 - 89% | 90 - 100% |
| Not present. | Totality of annotations contain 1-1,000 words. | Totality of annotations contain 1,001-1,500 words. | Totality of annotations exceed 1,500 words. | |
| Thesis of the Citations (20 percent) | 0 – 69% | 70 - 79% | 80 - 89% | 90 - 100% |
| Not present. | Does not demonstrate an understanding of the problem or issue in the citations. | Demonstrates an adequate understanding of the problem or issue in each citation. | Demonstrates a complete understanding of the problem or issue in each citation. | |
| Findings of the Citations (20 percent) | 0 – 69% | 70 - 79% | 80 - 89% | 90 - 100% |
| Not present. | Does not identify and discuss the validity and relevancy of the information presented in the citations to the problem or issue. | Adequately identifies and discusses the validity and relevancy of the information presented in each citation to the problem or issue. | Completely identifies and discusses the validity and relevancy of the information presented in each citation to the problem or issue. | |
| Quality of Writing (10 percent) | 0 – 69% | 70 - 79% | 80 - 89% | 90 - 100% |
| Not present. | Does not use precise or accurate terminology. Writing is not clear and does not flow in a logical progression. Writing has major grammatical errors. | Adequately uses accurate and precise terminology. Writing is adequately clear and flows in a logical progression. Writing has minor grammatical errors. | Consistently uses accurate and precise terminology. Writing is consistently clear and flows in a logical progression. Writing is free of grammatical errors. | |
| APA and Paper Format (10 percent) | 0 – 69% | 70 - 79% | 80 - 89% | 90 - 100% |
| Not present. | 5+ APA referencing and formatting errors. | 3-4 APA referencing and formatting errors. | 0-2 APA referencing and formatting errors. |
