AnnotatedBibliography.docx
Annotated Bibliography – Advanced Composition Spring 2018 Professor Cash Instructions: An annotated bibliography is essentially a works cited with summary and reflection on the sources listed. It goes beyond simply listing the items you have found in the research process, in other words, to provide a reader a general idea of what he or she would find in them. It also helps prepare you, as a writer, to determine which sources are going to be most useful to you in the next stage of writing. As you move towards the final persuasive essay, it is also important that you become more and more capable of putting the ideas you encounter into your own words rather than relying too much on direct quotation. We will be working with MLA formatting as usual. There is no need to add bullets or numbers. Simply begin the annotation, left-aligned, immediately below each entry. Include, broadly, the major information found in your source – the argument, main points and details – as well as some reflection on how relevant the information is to your project. At least four of the sources in your bibliography should be peerreviewed articles or books from the library, especially those by university presses. The conference for this assignment will be a little different. While we will touch on errors and places to fix your bibliography, our bigger focus will be to discuss overall findings and the direction you’d like to go for your final essay. Target Count: 7-10 sources with at least 100 or so words per annotation. Value: 20% of final grade Due Dates: Draft – e-mail to Dr. Cash by Wednesday, April 18 at 8 p.m. o The draft should cover at least four sources or more o Conferences will be held starting Thursday, April 19 Full draft – peer review – Tuesday, April 24 in class o This draft should include at least seven sources Final draft – Vancko Hall (Turn it in) – Wednesday, April 25 by 8 p.m.
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