ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: First Submissions
Task: as part of your research, you will create an complete annotated bibliography of all works you may use (no less than eight sources, including Carr, and no more than 20 sources). Each annotation should contain two separate paragraphs: 1) a 75-100 word summary of the main ideas of the source and 2) your 75-100 word analysis of the source, including why you think the source is useful in your own research.
Important Note:
It is important to be thorough with this activity because your final paper may only use the sources that you deploy in this annotated bibliography.
How to write an annotated bibliography:
- First, locate and record citations to books, periodicals, and documents that may contain useful information and ideas on your topic. Briefly examine and review the actual items. Then choose those works that provide a variety of perspectives on your topic.
- Cite the book, article, or document using MLA style.
- Write a concise annotation that summarizes the central theme and scope of the book or article. Include one or more sentences that (a) evaluate the authority or background of the author, (b) comment on the intended audience, (c) compare or contrast this work with another you have cited, or (d) explain how this work illuminates your topic.
Due Now:
No less than TWO complete annotations with MLA-style citations (plus your central thesis at the top). ONE of the four must be Carr’s The Shallows. Also the submission must be in alphabetical order.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ASSIGNMENT
Annotated Bibliography Activity
As part of your research for your final paper in English 102, you will write an annotated bibliography. An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents in which each citation is followed by two brief descriptive and evaluative paragraphs, the annotation. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited. Annotations are both descriptive and critical; they expose the source author’s point of view, clarity and appropriateness of expression, and authority.
Task: as part of your research, you will create an annotated bibliography of all works you may use (no less than EIGHT sources including Carr but no more than 20 sources). Each annotation should contain two separate paragraphs: 1) a 75-to-100 word summary of the main ideas of the source and 2) your 75-100 word analysis of the source, including why you think the source is useful in your own research. If all goes well, you will have more sources in your bibliography than you will use in your final paper.
Note: it is important to be thorough with this activity because your final paper may only use the sources that you include in this annotated bibliography.
How to write an annotated bibliography:
- First, locate and record citations to books, periodicals, and documents that may contain useful information and ideas on your topic. Briefly examine and review the actual items. Then choose those works that provide a variety of perspectives on your topic.
- Cite the book, article, or document using MLA style and write it as it will appear in your Works Cited page.
- Write a concise annotation that summarizes the central theme and scope of the book or article. Include one or more sentences that (a) evaluate the authority or background of the author, (b) comment on the intended audience, (c) compare or contrast this work with another you have cited, or (d) explain how this work illuminates your topic.
See below for an example of a good annotation and for why it is a good one.
Parameters:
- Follow the source requirements and restrictions as described in the Major Paper Assignment.
- Do not use abstracts of articles. You must find and refer to full articles.
- At least TWO source must be from a scholarly journal.
- One source must be a book other than our class text.
- All of your sources but one type MUST come from the CCP Library databases.
- You may use .gov websites. These are the only kind Google search results permitted as a source.
- Wikipedia does not count as a source. Also not a source: the dictionary as well as Cliff Notes, Spark Notes, or other online sources that do the thinking and the writing for you.
- All of your sources must be relevant to your research problem.
- All of the sources of your paper must come from your completed annotated bibliography. A paper that includes a source NOT found in your annotated bibliography will not be accepted. Think of the whole that would put in a paper.
- Cite sources using MLA format and style.
- The entries in the Annotated Bibliography MUST be in alphabetical order.
Due Dates:
See links in Canvas for specific due dates and times.
Example of a Successful Citation and Annotation
Waite, Linda J., Frances Kobrin Goldscheider, and Chrstina Witsberger.
“Nonfamily Living and the Erosion of Traditional Family Orientations
Among Young Adults.” American Sociological Review 51.4 (1986): 541-
554. Academic Search Complete. web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/det (Links to an external site.)
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3d#AN=14795430&db=a9h. Accessed 12 January 2017.
The authors, researchers at the Rand Corporation and Brown University, use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Young Women and Young Men to test their hypothesis that nonfamily living by young adults alters their attitudes, values, plans, and expectations, moving them away from their belief in traditional sex roles. They find their hypothesis strongly supported in young females, while the effects were fewer in studies of young males. Increasing the time away from parents before marrying increased individualism, self-sufficiency, and changes in attitudes about families. In contrast, an earlier study by Williams cited below shows no significant gender differences in sex role attitudes as a result of nonfamily living.
This article is useful in that it directly addresses one of my central research questions, specifically suggesting that the traditional family structure as a form may tend to inculcate in young people the belief that the traditional family is an inevitable form when in fact this belief is nothing more than the product of restrictive upbringing. However, it will also be useful to deal with the notion I have found in other texts, specifically Mary Eberstadt’s book, How the West Really Lost God, that when young people cohabitated, they also tend to become more secular. That is, that a traditional family structure is an important cause f people’s belief in God. So, while young people may find more individuality and self-sufficiency when they chose nonfamily living, so it seems also true that some kinds of nonfamily living, such as cohabitation by men and women who are not married, makes them less religious and more secular. It might be that the cost of individuality and self-sufficiency is too great a cost to pay if young people lose their faith. Faith helps young people also deal with difficult times
Above is a great example of a citation and an annotation. Notice what makes these annotations right:
- The citation at the top correctly using MLA style.
- The annotation uses two paragraphs. This is important.
- The first paragraph is a good summary that includes both the main ideas of the article and a clear sense of what the author’s purpose is.
- The second paragraph is a discussion of why the article is important to the research project.
- The second paragraph also makes connections between the sources, showing how these connections offers additional problems or positions to consider.
Your annotations should have the above five characteristics because I will be using these characteristics to grade your annotations.
thesis and Research Questions for Craft Writing
Central Thesis question
How can individual formulate and create their writing effectively?
Research questions
a. How to make the writing become effective and creative?
b. What are some guidelines and steps in processing the writing to make it effective?
c. Why is it important that we must obtain an effective and creative writing?
e. What will be the necessary steps to enhance the writing?
F. How do writers applied various techniques in order to convince the readers?
g. What will be the essential things to avoid when writing?
Questions to solve the problem
a. If readers or the audience would not understand your writing, what will be the best things to do?
b. How to make edit when the writing is not clear and concise?
c. What would be the tools that best for editing and proofreading?
Questions about naysayers (which are people who disagree with my own view)
a. Are there any arguments found by researchers about the importance of formatting in writing?
b. Does writers or someone agree that being a good writing would create a best and effective communication?4 Attachments
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