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Annotated Bibliography

Overview:

For this assignment, you will prepare a bibliography with a minimum of ten sources listed in proper MLA citation format (alphabetical order). These must be sources that you are using for the Analytical Research Paper. Of the sources listed, a minimum of four must be from an electronic database (Academic Search Complete [EBSCO], Project Muse, or JSTOR). You need a variety of primary and secondary sources (voices in the conversation) that present interesting or strange ideas in interesting or strange ways (the sources should intrigue you, puzzle you, lead you to analyze them, lead you to explore implications and draw conclusions—NOT report facts).

Following each source you must include a brief paragraph (three sentences or more) concerning that source. One sentence summarizes argument/main ideas (X/Y), one will be an analysis, and the third should be justification of why this source matters to the analysis (so what? Implications?). You will write 65+ words (annotations) for each source. You may put as many entries on a page as fit on the page. You should not place one entry per page.

Each entry will be worth 10 points. If you do not have ten sources you will lose 10 points for each entry that is missing. If you provide additional sources, I will grade the first ten and compute a score.

This is not a difficult assignment, but takes time for researching, critically reading, analyzing, and proper documenting of sources. Please start early and proceed at a methodical pace. Please email me with any questions, but if you are not sure how to document a source provide any information you do have as well as a description so I can assist you.

Basic Requirements:

10 annotated bibliography entries, MLA format, 65 word minimum per annotation

Audience:

The audience for this assignment is people who may be interested in the research you have conducted. Be mindful of following other academic writing conventions (no slang, no evaluative adjectives, and so on). Us strong present tense verbs (argues, implies, discusses, creates, stresses, analyzes, concludes, reveals, suggests, claims, concedes, warns, etc.)

Monday, April 16: Annotated Bibliography Due at 11:59!!!

Annotated Bibliography -- Example

Cooper, Benjamin P. "Social Media and The Lawyer's Evolving Duty Of Technological Competence." Legal Ethics, vol. 17, no. 3, 2014, pp. 463-466. Academic Search Complete, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1460728X.2014.11424048

Cooper’s article seems to be about the increasing number of cases using social media as evidence in legal claims but is really about lawyers’ duty to clients to understand the technology and how to mitigate its effects on a case. Cooper argues lawyers must be better prepared to counsel clients about past and present social media usage, but concludes that “developing truthful social media content that is helpful to their case” and taking “several steps to make it more difficult for the opposing party to find that evidence” are important aspects of a lawyer’s advice (466). The interesting implication of this “voice” in the conversation about social media and legal issues is more about the strands of social media evidence and what that implies about our society instead of lawyers’ competency with technology. The idea that some in society even need to be counseled that pictures and comments on social media can be used against them in a court of law is interesting and makes a compelling comparison with other articles in this study.*

*This example annotation is 174 words, which shows how quickly one’s summary, analysis, and justification can be developed. You can see how easily this person will be able to adapt this information to a paragraph in the paper comparing two sources (voices in the conversation) and analyze the implications of that comparison.