Strategies in Selecting a Topic for your Annotated Bibliography
You may select a topic of your choice. However, when selecting a topic, keep in mind
that it should be a topic on which a number of studies or scholarly articles have been
published.
Examples of topics students have chosen in the past or that would be workable for this
assignment are the following:
● The impact of the Internet on research methods of students and plagiarism in student
papers
● The impact of The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act on primary school education.
● The impact of mobile devices on cybersecurity
Overall, in considering a topic, you might consider your major, topics that will be covered in
future classes you plan to take at UMGC, and your interests.
For example, please examine the following ideas:
· If your major is criminal justice, you might consider researching the different types of CSI
effects that have been explored in the literature or researching what studies have noted about
body cameras for law enforcement officials.
· If your major is psychology, you might consider researching counseling strategies, consumer
behavior in online shopping, decision-making in upper-management positions, etc.
· If your major is history, you might consider researching theories on the Civil War, studies on
labor patterns in the United States, an aspect of military history, etc.
· If your major is social science, you might consider researching community responses to health
care threats,co-parenting patterns after divorce, etc.
· If your major is cybersecurity, you might consider researching different studies that analyze the
training of employees on cyber issues or researching the Agile and Waterfall methods of project
development.
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