Annotated Bibliographies

After your assessment, include a reflection on the resource and how it fits with the rest of your annotated bibliography and the topic.

This provides information on how you will use the information to support your research.

Try to answer these questions:

• What is most useful for this topic?
• How can you use this resource in your research project?
• Why did you chose this information resource?
• How can other researchers use it? Can it help with:
  • Providing background information on a topic
  • Supporting or refuting an argument you are making
  • Demonstrating a point

1. Citation:

Newman, P.A., Fantus, S., Woodford, M.R., Rwigema, M. (2017). “Pray that God will change you”: The religious social ecology of bias-based bullying targeting sexual and gender minority youth—A qualitative study of service providers and educators. Journal of Adolescent Research, 33(5), 523-548. https://doi.org/10.1177/0743558417712013

2. Summary:

This study, which concludes that religion plays a role in homophobia, documents bullying trends towards LGBTQ+ teens in Canada through interviews with teachers and therapists.

3. Assess:

This peer-reviewed article presented the results of the well-designed, though small, study which collected data from a diverse population of service providers and used accepted methods to ensure the quality of the data. The Journal of Adolescent Research is well-respected within the field.

4. Reflect:

The information in this study that connects religious faith to homophobic bullying supports the argument that LGBTQ+ teens of faith may suffer mental health consequences if they choose to stay in the church.

Note that annotations are written as one cohesive paragraph. Headings are provided in this example for clarity.