Annotated Bibiography in APA Style

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This blog post shows all the annotated bibliographies used throughout many of my previous posts used throughout my blog. You not only get the APA siting for the sources, but a summary of the articles used in the descriptions.

Brzezinski, M. (2015, March 12) Facebook as a Medium for Promoting Statement of Intent for Organ Donation: 5-Years of Experience. Web of Science. Retrieved from http://apps.webofknowledge.com.ezproxy1.library.arizona.edu/

In  "Facebook as a Medium for Promoting Statement of Intent for Organ Donation: 5-Years of Experience" Brzezinski says how few organ donors there are compared to recipients and how important it is to keep spreading awareness for the necessity of organ donors. He then goes on to say that he is a part of a club that activates this issue and the great help that Facebook is bringing to those that need organ transplants. This can potentially be used as an emotional statement about how Facebook has impact the lives of those invested in the organ transplant process. Creating awareness is key, just like any other disease, and this club will just lead to more awareness.


Desmon, S., Jones, H. (2013, June 18) The Facebook Effect: Social Media Dramatically Boosts Organ Donor Registration. Johns Hopkins Medicine. Retrieved         from http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/the_facebook_effect_social_media_dramatically_boosts_organ_donor_registration

In "The Facebook Effect: Social Media Dramatically Boosts Organ Donor Registration," Jones and Desmon show that the research done by Hopkins Medicine in relation to Facebook increasing organ donors proves that it does work, but with any internet movement, it is limited in time. They are encouraging the continuous of number of signups even though the story is no longer breaking news. This is a movement that has the capabilities of started other movements that will continue the increase in organ donors.This is more an informational primary source since this posted by the hospital that did the research behind the findings.


Duerr, B. (2015, April 15) Should Patients Be Able to Find Organ Donors on Facebook?. The Atlantic. Retrieved from http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/04/should-patients-be-able-to-find-organ-donors-on-facebook/390144/

In "Should Patients Be Able to Find Organ Donors on Facebook?" Duerr emphasizes both the good and bad elements of Facebook organ donors, by not just the ethical repercussions, but also how it impacts the laws that are currently in place restricting certain organ donations. The writer is emphasizing the desperate need for change in the system in order to catch up with the ever changing technology. This is used to explain the political reactions to the events rather than just the medical reactions to it.


Pena, M. (2014, May 30) The side-effects of the 'Facebook effect':challenging Facebook's 'organ donor' application. Web of Science. Retrieved from http://apps.webofknowledge.com.ezproxy1.library.arizona.edu/

In  "The side-effects of the 'Facebook effect':challenging Facebook's 'organ donor' application," Pena explain how even though there are benefits to what Facebook is doing, there are still drawbacks in the sense that is don't actually legally allow someone to become an organ donor. Also, she points out that updating your status doesn't really give you the full scope of what you are signing yourself up for, or if it something you are really interested in doing. This is an article that gives good information on the negative aspect of what Facebook is doing.


Richtel, M., Sack, K. (2012, May 1) Facebook is Urging Member to Add Organ Donor Status. New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/technology/facebook-urges-members-to-add-organ-donor-status.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

In "Facebook is Urging Member to Add Organ Donor Status," Richtel and Sack say that what Facebook is doing is noble but it is also causing issues with the legality status of people becoming organ donors since to truly become an organ donor, you have to register with the DMV.  The writers are introducing the question that if someone on Facebook declares to be an organ donor and is not, does it mean that if they pass away they are giving consent to being an organ donor? They report that this addition to the Facebook page is introducing a choice to them sooner than they would have had to think of it on their own. This, like the Atlantic post, gives multiple sides to the argument but also hones in on the political aspect of the argument as to how it will effect the law portion of the organ list and how officials choose recipients and proper donors and would be used in an essay against the continuing of promoting Facebook donor statuses.


Wasserman, T. (2012, May 1) Facebook Adds Organ Donor Option to Timeline. Mashable. Retrieved
from http://mashable.com/2012/05/01/facebook-organ-donor/

In "Facebook Adds Organ Donor Option to Timeline," Wasserman is informing the general social media attuned pubic about how on Facebook you can now update your organ donor status along with your social status and your relationship status. There was a massive response where millions of people become organ donors in a very short period of time. This, along with other movements done by Facebook, has given the social media site a friendly face to the public and is promoting better, more socially aware behavior. This is more a tutorial into how to change your donor status. This site also leads you to more social media related news, so this is an article you would use if the audience was younger and more knowledgeable of the proper blogs to look at for their form of current events.

Since Blogger doesn't allow you to do proper spacing, I have done so in a google document attached here.
Here is a better explanation of what to include in the citation.
Here is an example of an annotated bibliography for APA.

Reflection:

After reading through Bri's and Sam's blogs, it just amazes me at the difference in annotation between different fields and how important it is to get the correct annotation for the correct subject. Bri also had the same annotation style as I had and it showed me how I can continue to work on getting summaries a bit more narrowed down, with fewer complex sentences. I always write to write out as much information as I can and in this context, that is not a good quality to have.

But also, Bri made me question whether or not to put down the full website or just the name of it with the www and .com, .org, etc. It seemed that the italics section is where you put the official name for the place the article is published and the "retrieved from" section is where you place the full URL. Also I was curious if we were suppose to put the article titles in quotes. I didn't really see it online, but they are articles and wouldn't their titles still be in quotes.

But overall, this is a process I am going to have to really work on and keep practicing because most likely I will have to do a lot more of these sort of annotations in the many years of school I have ahead of me. I think it is honestly quite strange how there are so many different forms of citation. Maybe this is because different aspects of the citation are more important to some fields than others so they arrange it where the most important stuff is easiest to read on the citation. I wonder though, what is wrong with everyone using one format? It would save many people a lot of time learning all the different forms of citation.