Hello I need help with my Annotated Bibliography Assignment

Annotated Bibliography

Due Dates

Peer Review – 2/14/18

Final Draft – 2/18/18

In the upcoming third essay, I’ll ask you to contextualize your arguments in your recent researches. This assignment requires that you integrate your reading, thinking, and writing and those of other local or regional thinkers, writers, and media. You will be using the information you collect in this assignment to write your research paper; hence, be sure to include items in your annotated bibliography that will be useful to your research in your essay. To prepare for the task, collect at least ten credible sources in an annotated bibliography.

The specifications:

Begin each of the ten entries with an MLA style bibliographic entry and follow with three cogent paragraphs: a summary, a response, and a statement of use. The summary should capture the source’s main and striking points. In your response, note exactly that: your response to the source’s ideas and it’s use of the Aristotelian appeals (pathos, logos and ethos – though not necessarily all of these). In a brief statement of use, anticipate the ways in which you’ll integrate this material into your essay.

Each of these paragraphs should be written in clear, concise prose that is your own. Type your entries in a 12-point Times or Times New Roman font, single-spaced, with 1” margins top and sides, and pages titled and identified per MLA specifications. Please carefully proofread your writing. Your audience in this exercise is yourself: an emergent scholar who appreciates careful, critical readings of credible texts, coherent writing, and careful planning as an important step in the writing process.

An example of a well-annotated bibliographic entry:

Rubin-Dorsky, Jeffrey. "Washington Irving: Sketches of Anxiety." American Literature 58 (1986): 299-522.

In this article, Rubin-Dorsky explores the question of if Irving could proclaim himself an author in the New World – a world where authorship as a profession had, as of yet, not existed. Additionally, Rubin-Dorsky posits that Irving’s Sketch Book actually arose out of numerous personal anxieties which included such questions as: How can an American publish on the English lifestyle, How can a bachelor cope in the world without love and How will Americans view an American author commenting in an English fashion on English traditions in a time when America was trying to establish itself intellectually transatlantically?

This article addresses the logos, or logic, of the colonial mind. The article attempts to explain how Americans thought logically about the role of author’s in the colonial and post colonial context.

I found this article extremely interesting because it explored at relatively great length the underlying irony in many of Irving’s sketches on English life – both the urban and rural; furthermore, this article explained the inability of intellectual creations to sustain themselves indefinitely through an analysis of The Immutability of Literature. I think I can incorporate this article into my analysis by using Rubin-Dorsky’s ideas about American’s anxiety about publishing in the New American Republic.