Annotated Bibliography

In this assignment, I wrote an Annotated Bibliography for my UWP 001 course research project, titled ‘Student Behaviors and Practices to Improve UC Davis Cybersecurity Readiness’. As part of this project, I intend to address the specific research questions: 1) What specific student behaviors and practices impact the levels of cybersecurity readiness at a college? and 2) What is the current levels of adoption of leading student behaviors and practices that would improve cybersecurity readiness at UC Davis?

The assignment taught me that an Annotated Bibliography is one of the most effective tool in conducting research. It clearly articulates the specific research questions that we intent to address as part of the research project and provides us with quick access to the information contained in each source relevant to our research topic. I believe that it is very essential to find credible sources related to our research topic, so that our paper can achieve its purpose and the readers get convinced that our claim is plausible.

The most challenging part was finding sources relevant to our research topic. This requires reviewing multiple sources, however, once you do that well enough, then the rest of the research and analysis becomes extremely structured. The Annotated Bibliography provides the opportunity to think about and include various structural elements like the research questions, sources (in MLA citations), annotations about each of the sources, etc that could be further worked upon. The peer feedback was another helpful method that helped in improving the annotated bibliography further, as it determined from a different perspective what could be an area of focus, something that I did not think would be as important initially.