Annotated Bibliography

2020/11/23 Annotated Bibliography Assignment (Prompt): Fal20 ENGL 001A #74618 READING AND COMPOSITION-Online

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Annotated Bibliography Assignment (Prompt) Here is the actual assignment for the Annotated Bibliography. It is due by Tuesday, 11/24, by 11:59pm.

Assignment: Using what you've learned about how to use the PCC library and how to evaluate sources to make sure they're reputable, find three of the sources that you are going to use for your research paper. Make sure these sources meet the requirements. Remember that for your final essay, you will need a total of five sources, and they will need to be as follows:

1. You must use at least 3 different types of sources.

At least two sources must be from a PCC library database. At least one source must be from a credible website outside the PCC database-- a website that is appropriate for academic use. At least one source must be scholarly. (These may be articles from PCC library databases or books that are "peer reviewed." We will go over these in a future module.)

NOTE: Even though you are not required to use the following types of sources, here are some other sources to consider for your paper:

Books, anthologies or textbooks (including e-versions of these) Documentaries (must be non-fiction films) Interviews Podcasts

The paper should not over-rely on one main source for most of the information. Rather, it should use multiple sources and synthesize the information found in them

Make sure that you have evaluated any website or other sources you use to ensure that they are reliable sources for use in an academic paper (see the video on the page "Evaluating Resources for Reliability"). (https://canvas.pasadena.edu/courses/1110549/pages/evaluating-resources-for- reliability)

What to Include: An annotated bibliography includes

1. a full, alphabetized MLA Works Cited list of every source you’ve used while researching your proposition, and

2020/11/23 Annotated Bibliography Assignment (Prompt): Fal20 ENGL 001A #74618 READING AND COMPOSITION-Online

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2. underneath every Works Cited entry is an annotation—a summary and evaluation of how you might use the source in your essay. Your annotations should, in one fully developed paragraph, accomplish these 2 tasks in this order: 1. Summarize the source: What are the main arguments? What is the point of this book or

article or website? What topics are covered? If someone asked you what this article/book/website is about, what would you say? Try to keep this summary around 3-4 sentences.

2. Evaluate the source: Once you've summarized a source, you need to evaluate whether it is credible and relevant enough to cite. Is it a useful source for your purposes? How might you use it to help shape your argument? How does it compare with other sources in your bibliography? Finally, is the information reliable? Is this source biased? Try to keep your evaluation around 3-4 sentences

Write you annotation for each entry on the line following the bibliographic information. Indent the entire annotation.

Please also remember to: include your revised research question at the top of the assignment, below your heading for the assignment and before the first entry. include the tentative title for your research essay, followed by a colon and “Annotated Bibliography.” arrange all entries alphabetically, the way you always do with Works Cited entries. double-space the entire document indent all lines in an entry after the first do NOT number the entries.

see this sample MLA Annotated Bibliography (https://canvas.pasadena.edu/courses/1110549/pages/s ample-annotated-bibliography-entry) for a model of a correctly formatted one.