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Literature Review / Annotated Bibliography

Instructions

1. At the top of the page, write your research question in its current form (reflecting whatever revisions you have made as you continue to work on your research).

2. Below the research question,add the hypothesis or claim that youi think at this point you are going to prove in your final paper. This could change as you keep working, but it should be relatively stable in your mind by now.

3. List, alphabetically by author’s last name (title if there is no author), at least 10 sources, including 4 scholarly sources. These should be sources that you intend to use in your final research paper. For each source, present the following information:

· Complete publication data, formatted according to MLA rules.

· The article’s thesis.

This part of the assignment may simply repeat the information presented in the Ten Sources, if you are usnig the same source. However, some of the sources will likely have changed as a result of your ongoing research. Also, if yourTen Sources assignment did not meet the requirements, this is your chance to correct the problems.

4. For at least five of the sources, the following information should also be included:

· A brief summary of its main points

· The article’s answer to your research question, or the part of your research question that it contributes to.

· A brief critique describing how persuasive the article is, based on your evaluation of the evidence and/or the reasoning and using key terms,

Points to Note

· Theses and summaries should be in your own words. Do not copy and paste.

· Some articles will not directly answer the question, but will provide part of an answer, or background information for an answer, or in some other way help you develop your own answer. Your notes should indicate succinctly what role that source plays in your project.

· You should have articles that provide different answers to the question. In other words, there should be evidence of a debate among your sources.

· At this point you probably have an idea of what you think the correct answer to your question is. Therefore, you will be agreeing with some of your sources and disagreeing with others.

· Your critiques should give an indication of why you consider some sources more persuasive than others.

· If in critiquing your sources you find that the ones you agree with have worse evidence and/or worse reasoning than those you disagree with, be prepared to change your answer.

· Don’t critique reference works, newspaper articles, or other purely factual reports. The whole idea of critique is to evaluate the argument, and factual articles do not make arguments.

· Don’t use any sources that are not relevant to your question.

Grading

The paper will be scored on the following categories. Each will receive a score of 4, 3, 2, 1 or 0. The total grade will be an average of those scores.

· Sources are adequate and appropriate to the topic. (So)

· Complete publication data provided in MLA format. (P)

· Sources’ theses correctly identified, in own words. (T)

· Summaries of at least five sources list their main sections and the point of each section. (Su)

· Those sources’ answers to the research question, or their contribution to an answer, is clearly stated. (A)

· Critiques of those sources provided, using key terms to evaluate their evidence and reasoning as they relate to proving the source’s thesis. (C)

· There is evidence of a debate or different opinions among sources. (D)

· Language (same requirements as earlier papers). (L)

Literature Review Assignment Rubric

This rubric describes the type of work that will earn a 4, 3, 2, 1 or 0 on each of the eight scored items (criteria) for this assignment. Keep in mind that when multiple types of problems are listed, a paper can receive a low score for any of those problems, not just the combination of all of them. For example, a paper can receive a 1 for Sources if it simply has too few sources, regardless of whether there are also significant gaps in coverage, lack of effort to find multiple perspectives, reference works in place of other sources, or many irrelevant sources.

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