WEEK 4 EXERCISE EXPLORING DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC RESOURCES
Enter your notes on this file, including a partial rough draft of your Annotated Bibliography at the end.
1. Visit the subject guide for your major to make sure you have a basic understanding of the following terms as they apply to research in your academic field and/or future profession. Then provide both general and specific examples—at least one for the entire discipline, profession, or industry and at least one for a particular branch of it or for research on your chosen topic.
Professional association
Discipline specific database (NOT a general database like ProQuest)
Academic journals (peer-reviewed)
Trade publications
Grey literature (the government agency, NGO, think tank, or nonprofit that produces it)
2. Visit the website of a professional association you have identified. Examine their mission statement, publications, and topics of recent articles and conferences. What can you determine about the values and current concerns of this discourse community? What recent research has been done on your research topic or a related topic?
3. Write out your research question and identify potential search terms.
What obstacles do women face in the finance industry?
Search terms: finance, male dominated, women, gender inequality, obstacles
4. Begin your annotated bibliography. Compile a list of sources you are considering for your literature review, using the documentation style standard for your discipline. (For most of you, this will be APA or MLA Style, both of which are arranged alphabetically and with hanging indentation.)
Write a 3-5 sentence annotation describing and evaluating each source, with a final sentence that compares this source to at least one other on your list.