Annotated Bibliography
Annotated bibliographies provide interested readers with synopses of recent or important scholarly work or trade publications within a relatively narrow field of study. Completing the annotated bibliography should familiarize you with key terms, ideas and debates associated with your topic.
The research you will conduct should be part of a sincere, open-minded attempt to understand and master the controversy thoroughly—its history, context, and the various positions other researchers have taken on it. In other words, even though it is necessary to begin with your prejudices, it is not acceptable just to hunt for sources that support and justify your viewpoint; you’ve got to move beyond this initial horizon. You will need to use your acquired mastery of the controversy (through your extensive research) to develop your credibility as a group, while providing convincing examples and arguments to evoke various emotions in your intended audience.
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Research Requirements
While your annotated bibliography may contain many more than 10 sources, you are only responsible for providing summaries and annotations for 8 sources. You will likely gravitate to a few key texts as principle sources, around which you will employ many other sources in more secondary or tertiary roles. In any case, you are to have a devoted works cited page for your researched argument project, and that should be distinct from your annotated bibliography.
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Of these 8 annotated sources:
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FormatingAll sources must be cited correctly in your annotated bibliography with TWO paragraphs:
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Please note that you may not find sources exactly on your topic, so you will very likely need to draw connections between published sources that are related to your topic and your own final project. Because you will likely find more information than you can manage in a project of this scope, you’ll need to narrow your focus even further between the annotated bibliography and the research proposal. Since annotated bibliographies are largely academic, aim for peer-reviewed and substantial discipline-specific articles.
There are lots of resources on writing annotated bibliographies online. Use them only as supplements to the above instructions. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_annotatedbib.html. APA or MLA format. |