Quality Pioneer Report 2 Assignment

July 2# MANE 6319 - Quality Management Systems

Quality Pioneer Report - Assignment 2

The second Quality Pioneer Report assignment is for your group to prepare an annotated bibliography. An annotated bibliography is a list of sources that you intend to use to write a report. For this course, you are writing the Quality Pioneer Report. An annotated bibliography contains both a source and a summary/description of the content of that source. At a minimum your bibliography must contain at least:

• At least two journal articles, and
• At least one book source (note: you cannot use the textbook as your book source).

If possible, you are encouraged to add more sources; it will make writing the report easier if you have lots of information when you start writing. A reasonable approach is to attempt to find all of the material that will be needed to complete your Quality Pioneer Report while completing the second Quality Pioneer Report Assignment. Your bibliography will be written in the APA style (more details below).

Research Tools

There are many helpful tools for researching potential papers. If you are connected to the internet on-campus, it is usually trivial to download pdf copies of papers.

UTRGV Library Search

My prefered method is to work through the UTRGV library. A screenshot of the UTRGV Library is shown below.

Select Ebooks & Database List to access databases containing journal articles. There is a drop-down menu to search for databases by topic activated by clicking on All Subjects.

A listing of the databases for Engineering - Manufacturing is shown below.

In general, Compendex, Engineering Village, Science Direct, SpringerLink, Web of Science contain many articles that will be suitable for your technical report.

Internet Research Sites

The most obvious site is Google Scholar shown below.

Another resource is Research Gate.

AI Tools

For the QPR - Assignment 2 (and ONLY this assignment in the entire class), you may use AI tools such as ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, etc., to assist with finding references. All of the remaining assignments should be writing by members of the group and not AI-generated.

Bibliography Style

Your bibliograph should be prepared using the APA style. An overview is provided by Purdue Online Writing Lab. An excellent illustration of the use of the APA in preparing a bibliography is provided at APA Poster.

Submission Details

Each group should upload their submission as a single PDF document to their Quality Pioneer Report 2 Drop Box before the end of the day on Wednesday July 9, 2025. Submissions will be evaluated for plagiarism using Turnitin.

Assignment Evaluation

Your submission will be evaluated using the following rubric. The actual rubric is available in Brightspace.

Criteria	Proficient	Compentent	Acceptable	Unacceptable	Points
Book Reference					25
First Journal Reference					25
Second Journal Reference					25
APA Style					15
Spelling and Grammar					10

Sample Submission

Portions of a sample bibliography to assist you in preparing your submission.