Annotated Bibliography Assignment: Practising Key Skills in Nursing Practice

The purpose of this written assignment is to enable you to practise key skills such as searching, reading, organising information, summarising and reflecting on information contained in journal articles. These skills are necessary for effective communication in the academic environment and in nursing practice.

For this assignment you must write an annotated bibliography.

In your annotated bibliography (AB), you must include annotations (250 words each) of three journal articles.

You should provide an introductory paragraph about the aims and structure of the AB and following the actual annotations provide a recommendation paragraph that identifies aspects of effective communication you have learned from reading the articles and how you will implement these into your nursing practice. The total word count is 1000 words. You may write this section using first person language.

1. Select and read three journals

2. For EACH article you must write a 250-word annotation that includes:

3. An outline of the main premise of the article.

4. A summary of the main ideas, findings and conclusions.

5. An identification and justification of the intended audience: (a) Who is the intended audience? (b) Why do you think that?

6. The Citation (using APA7th Referencing guidelines)