M5A1 Outline and Annotated Bibliography for Final Essay

This assignment addresses course outcome 7:

7. Analyze and apply the appropriate ethical standards and social responsibilities of the human services profession to the delivery of human or community services (Human Services Concentration Outcome).

Develop an outline and annotated bibliography for your final paper that you will submit at the end of module 8. This outline and annotated bibliography will be due at the end of module five. This is the first stage of the final assignment process. The outline and bibliography you will write in this module will form the backbone for the final paper that you will submit at the end of module seven.

The purpose of this outline and bibliography is for you to find a topic for your final paper, outline how you will address this topic, and finally, summarize scholarly sources that will help you write this final paper.

First, your outline should contain the following information:

1. Clarify a particular type of addiction you want to study
2. Specify the possible genetic reasons for this addiction
3. Specify the possible environmental reasons for this addiction
4. Explain the impact this particular type of addiction has upon individuals and families
5. Specify some of the most important ways that this type of addiction might be treated.

Remember: this is only an outline, so you only need to give a couple of key sentences here for each of the above points. You will use this outline as a roadmap for your final paper.

Second your bibliography should include 68 scholarly sources that will help you write this paper. You may use sources from the course materials, or outside of the course, if you wish. For each of these sources, please write a brief, 2 to 3 sentence annotation.

This annotated bibliography should be written in American Psychological Association (APA) 6th edition format, including a title page, 1-inch margins all the way around, in Times New Roman 12-point or Arial 11-point font.

You cannot just do a Google search for the topic! Academic sources are required. You may use Google Scholar or other libraries.

Excelsior University Library Materials on locating and identifying research sources can be found at

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APA style guidelines for your in-text citations and references can be found at

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Researching your topic:

Use the

directly or go to advanced Search to be more precise and targeted in the sources you would like to find.

The EC Library provides

which will give you an overview help you quickly find commonly used resources for many topics.

See the Course Calendar for the due date.

Compose your work in a .doc or .docx file type using a word processor (such as Microsoft Word, etc.) and save it frequently to your computer. For those assignments that are not written essays and require uploading images or PowerPoint slides, please follow uploading guidelines provided by your instructor.

Check your work and correct any spelling or grammatical errors. When you are ready to submit your work, click Upload Submission. Enter the submission title and then click on Select a file to upload. Browse your computer, and select your file. Click Open and verify the correct file name has appeared next to Submission File. Click on Continue. Confirm submission is correct and then click on Accept Submission & Save.