Overview: Successful professionals need solid self-assessment and metacognitive skills. Approach this annotated bibliography assignment as an opportunity to reflect upon your progress toward mastery of the course competencies and to share your perspective and expertise gained from past educational and professional experiences. The goal of an annotated bibliography is to assist you in refining your information literacy while engaging you in the act of being a subject matter expert. You should begin your research with the Shapiro Library Research Guide. You are also welcome to do conventional web searches, with the expectation that you will pay careful attention to the credibility of site authors and the appropriateness of site content for an academic audience. Prompt: For this assignment, you will be conducting research supporting your first competency project. Specifically, you should find credible sources of information to inform your evaluation and recommendations related to the case study you selected in your Module One Graphic Organizer assignment. For example, if you had selected a case documenting the process for developing and enacting an immigration policy, you would want to be well-versed in the relevant statistics, studies, and data related to immigration to inform your evaluation of that case. The following critical elements must be addressed:  I. Create an introductory paragraph describing the importance of evidence-based management.  II. Research three (3) current, evidence-based, peer-reviewed articles. For each article, compose a paragraph that includes: A. Location of data: Where is the data is coming from (agency, organization, etc.)? B. Summary of data: What important data or information is included? C. Citation: Properly cite the article using APA format.  III. Create a closing paragraph in which you identify in which of the six stages of the policy development model this data would be most useful. This could be more than one stage.

What role do smoking, drinking alcohol, and nutrition play in adult development? Create some possible combinations of these and then respond based on them. For example, how might a person who smokes but eats well develop in adulthood?