Annotated Bibliography 2

Annotated Bibliography Instruction

Week 6 Annotated Bibliography Instruction

Week 2: You are required to submit an Annotated Bibliography with at least two sources. Week 6: You are required to submit an Annotated Bibliography with at least five sources.

What Is An Annotated Bibliography?

An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents. Each citation is followed by the ‘annotation,’ which contains two paragraphs: a brief source summary paragraph and a response/evaluative paragraph.

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What are the purposes of the annotated bibliography?

· To format your sources into full APA references (these will later make up the Reference page of your essay).

· To help you understand what you’ve researched while you write your essay.

· To evaluate your response by analyzing source credibility.

· To begin formulating your position in response to the source (to “join the conversation”).

How to Begin:

1. First, using your course resources on finding sources, locate at least two scholarly sources that represent positions on your topic. This source selection should be guided by a research question.

2. Next, read and annotate (take notes, highlight, underline, pose questions, respond) to your sources.  Your goal is to ensure you understand the source’s main points.

3. Then, reference the book, article, or document using APA style citation and begin writing your annotations.

How to Annotate:

Write two paragraphs of annotations for EACH SOURCE. The information included in each paragraph should be as follows:

Paragraph 1 (Summarize): Completely and respectfully summarize the source. What argument is being made? What evidence is given in support of the argument? Be detailed and specific. What strategies does the author use to make her/his argument? 

Paragraph 2 (Assess and Reflect): Is the author credible?  How or why?  Is the source useful (think about why the source deserves to have a voice in your paper or how it compliments your research)?  How does it help shape the information you will present in your paper?  Think not only about the information it provides but also how that information is useful when joined with your other source(s).  For Annotated Bibliography 2, also spend time in this paragraph discussing your own response to the source (do you agree, disagree, etc.).

How It Should Look:

Be sure to consult the example provided.  A few key points:

· Bibliography must be in alphabetical order by the first item in the reference citation (usually the author’s last name)

· Bibliographies must have a hanging indent on the second and each additional line of each source:

· Select the text where you want to add a hanging indent.

· Go to Home > Paragraph dialog launcher. > Indents and Spacing.

· Under Special, select Hanging. You can adjust the depth of the indent using the By field.

· Select OK.

· Bibliographies must be double-spaced. 

Comments:

Needs to be a persuasive thesis, it’s a fact that immigrant students make tense errors for many reasons (native language, native culture, and more). So, what can you persuade us about that fact?

Is there something that those of us who are native speakers can do to help non-native speakers with tense errors? For the persuasive paper, you want to convince us either to do something to help with the problem that you laid out in the expository essay or to believe something new that we probably didn't know about the problem.

For example, a strong thesis: "Educators can better educate students in the English language because currently, the educational system is failing English language learners." Now that's persuasive! Let's run with that. What do you think?

Please note that you have been working on the same topic each week. I will attach the last paper on the topic that I have already summited so you can have an idea of the changes that

need to be made based on the comments from the professor.

use the information on the Annotated Bibliography Instruction page to format an annotated bibliography for your Argumentative Research paper. Since the essay requires 5-7 references, you need to have at least 5 sources included in the bibliography. These will be sources you add to your own field research. As long as the sources you submitted in Annotated Bibliography #1 are still relevant and will be used in the Argumentative paper, you may keep them as two of the sources for this expanded Annotated Bibliography.  

Remember, this is a class that focuses on research, so the evidence you include should be from trustworthy, scholarly sources (i.e. no Wikipedia, clickbait, etc.).  Your source list and your understanding of source credibility should grow and expand as you become more comfortable and competent with research.  Your Annotated Bibliography 2 should show this and represent mostly academic, scholarly sources.

Since we are now moving into argument in week 7, the second paragraph of your annotation should also include your response to the source.  Do you agree with it, disagree with it, or respond in some other way?  How does it support or challenge your own position?