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Annotated Bibliography Tips, and Reminders

Be sure to read the Response Paper instructions within the submission link in addition to the information below.

Tips: 

· This week's response paper is not a traditional essay. Instead, it will look more like a works cited page, but with annotation paragraphs underneath each individual source entry. Therefore, while composing your annotated bibliography response, follow this pattern: 

1) Source 1 works cited entry (sources in the bibliography should be arranged alphabetically).

2) An annotation paragraph for the above source. This paragraph should summarize the above source's argument and central points and evaluate the source's usefulness/relevance to your research paper topic. Somewhere within your annotation, please provide a brief quote from the source that you think might be useful in your eventual research paper.  Example: The author, like many readers, believes that "Oedipus Rex's tragic flaw was pride, or hubris" (Smith 14). 

Follow the above pattern throughout until you have the required number of sources (or more). See example below: 

Reminders:  

· Remember, the works of literature you are writing about for your research paper (also called ' primary sources') are NOT research sources. They are the subject/basis of the paper and will eventually appear as additional sources on the works cited page of your eventual research paper, but these literary/primary sources  do not count as part of the research requirement and should therefore not appear on this week's annotated bibliography; the bibliography this week is only focusing on your required research sources (also called 'secondary sources') that you locate at the school Library. However, if you want to go ahead and include the works cited entries for your literature/primary sources ( without annotations)  in addition to your 3+ required research sources/annotations, you can. 

· The  secondary sources you locate for your Annotated Bibliography (the research used in your eventual research paper) need to be both scholarly and relevant. This means that all research sources should come from databases within the school Library or from resources provided in class.