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.

Describe in a two-page short essay an instance when you felt you were discriminated against or encountered a bias against either you or the perceived “group” you belong to. How did you react? How did you end up resolving that situation? If you were given the chance to go back in time what would you do differently? ( AFRICAN AMERICAN IN USA) WORK DISCRIMINATION)