Write an annotated bibliography that includes four scholarly sources and your primary source for a total of five sources.
This annotated bibliography is to include a Thesis statement about your “research paper” at the top. Note: there is no longer a research paper due. I will give you topics for this annotated bibliography assignment. An annotated bibliography is essentially what you would use as a works cited for your paper AND is asked of you for research papers in advance. It is usually included in your outlines for research papers. In this case, we are not actually providing the paper, yet a document that dually serves as a works cited and an outline.
Each annotation must include information about the source (such as purpose, audience and genre), a summary of the source’s contents, and your own evaluation of that source for your research purposes.
An annotation is a summary and/or evaluation. Therefore, an annotated bibliography includes a summary and/or evaluation of each of the sources.
Each annotation should answer the following:
1. It should be indicated if it is the primary source of your essay. If it is not your primary source, then there is not a need to indicate that it is your secondary source.
2. You should summarize the source in 5-7 sentences. What is the genre of the source? Is it a nonfiction essay, historical fiction, statistical research, a sociology article? What are the main arguments? What is the point of this book or article? What topics are covered? If someone asked what this article/book is about, what would you say? The length of your annotations will determine how detailed your summary is. What part of the primary source are you investigating for your paper?
3. Assess whether or not this article is helpful for your paper. If it is not, then trash it. If you find it turns out that this was not a reliable resource, then trash it. Find another source. Think of how it compares to the other sources you used for your paper. For further tips on assessing whether a source is useful to your paper, please use the following link: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/553/03/
4. Indicate how the source is used to write your paper. If it is the primary source, indicate which aspect of the source you are researching. Example: If you are using Attwood’s The Female Body as a means to discuss sex trafficking in modern society, then explain that this is the particular aspect of the piece that you are investigating.
5. If it is a secondary source, elaborate on how it helps establish prove your thesis. For example, if you are writing about Environmental Racism, and your article has statistics of brain hemorrhages, cancer, or tumor due to lead in the water, then state you used the article for statistical evidence. Indicate how it supports your thesis.
Finally, please note that this assignment has a maximum as well as a minimum length; your bibliography must express all necessary information concisely, in such a way that it does not exceed the maximum length. Each annotation should not be longer than three paragraphs (5-7sentences each)
YOU ARE SUMMARIZING THE SOURCE AND EXPLAINGING HOW YOU WOULD HAVE USED IT IN YOUR PAPER. THATS IT. YOU FIRST HAVE NORMAL CITATION AND THIS SYNOPSIS UNDER IT. THINK OF IT AS AN EXPANDED WORKS CITED.
Here are the topics you can choose to write about for your annotated bibliography:
Choose a short story, author, essay, or film from the Pre-Selected Lists on BlackBoard. Thinking about the subject matter and theme, relate the short story, play, essay or film, to a modern or historical concern. Your thesis should be argumentative, and the research and literature/film should be used to support your thesis idea.
If you choose to use Sorry to Bother You as your Annotated Bibliography topic, choose to write about the film in one of the following ways:
1. Discuss the symbolism in the film and how it is used to portray the intersectionality between Racism and Classism
2. Discuss the actual historical events or aspects of racism/classism in America that the film alludes to.
3. Discuss how the film portrays the struggles of Black men and Black women in the United States. Discuss the differences and similarities that are shown in the film. In your research discuss the differences and similarities in actual(nonfiction, not from the film) history/contemporary times.
GRADING CRITERIA:
-Must include a Thesis Statement for the research paper (which you are not writing!). Think of this as a proposal for a paper. Often, proposals consist of a thesis, and an annotated bibliography to show the Professor how you will prove your thesis. Therefore, state your thesis first.
-MUST be about a topic from this course, this semester!
-Does each annotation include useful information about its source? Does it summarize the source’s content?
-Does each annotation EXPLAIN how the sources are used for your paper?
-Have you evaluated the source for its relevance and usefulness to your research?
-Are your annotations clearly and concisely written? Have you avoided confusing wordiness or run on sentences? Have you properly SUMMARIZED the source; put it into your own words?
-Is each annotation written with appropriately formal, academic tone and word choice?
– Is it written mainly in third person objective? i;e, instead of saying “I chose this piece as evidence because,” say “This piece of evidence is an interview with Boots Riley, Director of Sorry to Bother You, proves that Sorry to Bother You intentionally addresses how African American/Minority men and women experience cultural erasure and modern commodification of the human body.”
-Have you cited sources according to MLA conventions? Are your sources in alphabetical order?
FORMAT:
Each annotation should be double-spaced, except for the single-spaced bibliographic entries themselves.
Each bibliographic entry should be formatted according to MLA standards, and should be followed by your annotation of it.
ROUGH DRAFT DUE Friday April 24th . Via Turnitin Upload on Blackboard. I will comment what to change. Additionally, if you wish to turn it in earlier for sooner feedback, please do so I will make it available. On Monday, April 20th, at 8:20 PM, we will have class on Zoom. Please Download Zoom onto your computer or phone. This class is to address further questions about the material in the Recorded Lectures.
Final Draft Due Monday April 29th VIA TURNITIN UPLOAD ON BLACKBOARD! NO LATER THAN 11:59 PM.
