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This assignment is to help graduate students examine effective, evidence-based approaches to nutrition for specific sports or exercise based on peer-reviewed, original research. You will need to prepare an annotated bibliography with 4 journal articles published within the last 10 years (in the US) about nutrition and sports). Three of these articles must be peer-reviewed. Citations should be in APA 7 format. For APA citations, look on the internet for information. Here is a link. Each student must select a unique topic. You might focus on nutrition and endurance sports or exercise, such as tri-athletes or marathon running. You could focus on current topics related to carbohydrate intake for athletes or protein intake for athletes. If you do not choose one of the topics above, please get your topic approved before beginning your research.

Information on Annotated Bibliographies:

Use information on the internet to research what an annotated bibliography is and how to write it. Here is a link (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.to one source. Here a second source (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..

• Write the citation and annotation
  Give the complete citation first and then write the annotation. Each annotation should be about 3/4 page typed, single-spaced. You should consider including:
  1. The stated purpose of the research (especially the main research question)
  2. A summary that includes more than you can get from simply reading the abstract. The summary should include brief information about the methods (including # of participants), if the research was quantitative or qualitative, the results of the study, and the conclusion (that MUST answer the research question).
  3. How important is this research on the topic you have chosen? Why is it important?
  4. Note any special or unique features about the research.
  5. What are strengths, weaknesses or biases in the study design?