An annotated bibliography is an organizing tool that is helpful when working on a research project. An effective annotated bibliography is used to compile research sources in one location and provide the researcher with quick access to the information contained in each source. Review the https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/ website to learn more about Annotated Bibliographies.

Find five sources you might use for the final Portfolio Project pertaining to budgets. Sources should be scholarly and focus on a narrowed issue or question of inquiry.

Cite the source in proper APA format. The citations should be organized in alphabetical order by author just as the sources would appear in an APA References page.

Follow with a brief annotation that summarizes the source in a paragraph of 3 to 5 sentences; explain the source's relevance and importance to your issue. Do not copy and paste the abstract. Ideally, all of the annotation should be in your own words with thoughtful, helpful, and complete annotations of 100-150 words per source.

The annotation for each source should follow an academic style. This means that you must construct, with elevated and sophisticated language, grammatically correct sentences that effectively summarize what each source has to say. Do not simply bullet point notes on the sources-read them and then write a brief summary (but not a rehash of the abstract), noting information from the source that will help in putting together your journal article review and the final assignment. Remember to write in the objective tone, without inserting first-person pronouns. The summary is about the source (not about you or the process you undertook to find the source). Additionally, you should explain how each source is relevant to the issue selected for your final paper and what it adds to the knowledge about that issue.

Include a title page, as usual, but a reference page is not required for this assignment since the references will be noted in the annotations.