10-Sources-Essay

Writing the Annotated Bibliography

From the Working Bibliography that you created, you will choose 10 sources that best answer the questions you posed in your Research Proposal. Those sources will form the basis for the Annotated Bibliography.  You will need a minimum of five sources from Sinclair databases and at least three of those sources should be "scholarly."  

Briefly, the annotated bibliography includes notes and analysis on sources that will be quoted and paraphrased in the final essay. You have already had practice with the skills that are required, but the assignments do require that you set aside several hours for reading and analysis.

If you've taken ENG 1101 at Sinclair recently, you may have already had some experience with the annotated bibliography. 

Annotated Bibliography

To begin to put the Annotated Bibliography together, review the sources you listed on your Working Bibliography. Choose 10 that look like they come the closest to answering the research questions you posted in your Research Proposal. If, after reading and researching further into your topic, you realize that you do NOT have 10 that address the issue you are writing about, go back to the library databases and find more sources. Keep searching until you have ten. 

Choosing the 10 sources for the Annotated Bibliography is important because you are going to spend considerable time reading, summarizing, and critiquing these sources. Make sure you take as much time as necessary to read and choose sources that answer the questions you posed in your research proposal. The work that you do for the annotated bibliography will form the basis for your research paper. The time you put into this assignment will pay off when you go to write the paper because what you create for the annotated bibliography will go directly into your paper to support the ideas that you are sharing with your readers. This assignment is one of the most important steps in writing the paper. The more time you give to this assignment, the better your paper will be.

Once you have decided on the ten most relevant sources, you will format a bibliography just like you did in the Working Bibliography. You will alphabetize it, use a hanging indent for the entries posted, and then beneath each source, you will provide the following information:

First paragraph:

· A summary of the source. The first sentence of each annotation should state the thesis or main point of the source. Then write a summary that summarizes or paraphrases the main points and ideas of the source. Don’t just tell us what the source is about, but tell us what it says . Use specifics from the sources. Include relevant details. Use the guidelines for writing summaries to help you do this and use your own words. Don't quote the source; instead, write what it says in your own words.  This section should be 3-5 sentences.

Second paragraph:

· A mini-critical analysis. Consider the following questions:  What is the writer’s purpose in writing this article? (This question will allow you to assess whether or not you have enough different perspectives on the topic.) Who is the audience for this piece? Consider the context in which this piece was written. In other words, how did where and when it was written affect what was said in the source? This section should be 2-4 sentences.

· A brief evaluation of the piece. Consider these questions: How do you know the author is credible? How do you know that the author has the adequate information to write the article? How do you know the source is reliable? This is especially important for Internet sources. Here you can refer to the questions on the CRAAP worksheet that you used in the website critique topic. This section should be 2-4 sentences.  

Third paragraph:

· Discuss how you will use the source in your essay.  Discuss how you will use this information in your research paper--about one sentence. Then, include a word for word quote from the source.

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John Q. Student

Professor Stalbird

English 1201.xxx

27 February 2020

Annotated Bibliography

Author’s Last Name, First Name. “Name of Article in Quotation Marks.” Name of Source/Publication in Italics. Publication Date/Info. Name of Database in Italics. Url. Date Accessed.

This article discusses (give the thesis of the article). In the next 2-4 sentences, give the main points of the article. Tell what the article said.

The purpose of this article is ______. The intended audience seems to be _______. Address the credibility of the source and the author. For example, for a database article you could write: The source came from the Sinclair database and the article came from a scholarly peer-reviewed journal. The author seems credible because she has written many other articles on the subject. The article was written in 2020.

 I can use this source for ______. I plan to use the following quote: “______.”

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