Purpose: The Annotated Bibliography provides quality sources for use in the Researched Essay.
The Annotated Bibliography will consist of 8 bibliographic citations
A minimum of 6 of these entries must be from scholarly sources (see the Week 4 Module Guide for information on finding scholarly sources).
The other 2 entries may come from popular media if that is useful for your paper, or they may also be scholarly. (One may be an interview if the professor approves it.)
Each entry should include an annotation that is 100-250 words long with two parts (which can be 2 separate paragraphs):
an unbiased summary of the text (begin with a statement of the authors thesis; approx. page) with the inclusion of one properly contextualized quotation from the text (lead-in phrase, quotation, citation, or comment) and
your evaluation of the text’s validity and usefulness (approx. two or three sentences).
The goals of this assignment are much different from those of the other assignments in this course. The Annotated Bibliography is a stepping stone to the research paper and is typically written while you are writing the early rough drafts of a research paper. My hope is that this assignment encourages you to engage fully in the research process rather than merely finding the texts that are easiest to acquire for your purposes.
In addition, you should learn how to appropriately and effectively evaluate and incorporate the ideas of others in support of your claims; in fact, the grading of this assignment in terms of style is based on the effectiveness of your prose as it communicates and analyzes the ideas of others. Finally, this assignment will equip you to quickly draft your researched essay.
Evaluation Criteria for the Final Annotated Bibliography
The 8 entries should have three parts in this order:
bibliographic citation
summary
evaluation
Each summary should
be 100-250 words long.
contain no major grammatical errors.
Bibliographic citations should be arranged alphabetically and accurately formatted and punctuated, according to APA style.
Six of the sources should be scholarly sources.
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