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Once you have developed your thesis statement and outline, it is time to work on your annotated bibliography. An annotated bibliography lists the sources that you will be using to write your paper. In addition to this information, it provides a concise summary (4-5 sentences) of each source and states its value or relevance (not just a summary) to your topic and essay. Annotated Bibliography should be 2 pages long.

For your essay you will need a minimum of 5 secondary sources, so you must list 5 in this annotated bibliography. However, if you find other secondary sources at a later date and would also like to use them for your essay, that is acceptable.

Secondary sources are scholarly interpretations (peer reviewed journal articles or books) produced after the time of study. Your secondary sources should be published recently, after 1990. This is especially important in the study of history, as new and updated interpretations are constantly being released. You can use scholarly sources discussed in class. You may not use encyclopedias or textbooks.

Secondary Sources

I recommend “America: History and Life,” “JSTOR” and “Project Muse.” Here you can find journal articles of an historical nature.

1. Once you have chosen your sources, you will need to list them properly, in alphabetical order, with your summaries. Historians use Chicago Style to cite and format their resources. For information on how to do this, please refer to the online version of the Chicago Manual of Style at http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html or the Purdue University website at https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/01/

Example of an annotated bibliography

Binder, Frederick and David Reimers. All the Nations Under Heaven: An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.

This study provides the first overarching account of immigration to New York City from the colonial period to the present day. This book includes two chapters useful to my essay: “Old and New Immigrants in Greater New York City, 1880 to World War I” and “Jews and Italians in Greater New York City, 1880 to World War I.” Here, Binder and Reimers describe how turn of the century immigration, dominated by large Italian and Jewish populations, contributed to the creation of one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the world. They discuss the hardships of these newcomers, including their struggles to simultaneously retain their cultures and identities, while assimilating into their adopted homeland. These chapters lend themselves to my essay because they provide background information on the rate and extent of immigration and settlement patterns in New York, and they discuss the attempts of immigrants to both unionize, and strengthen their political influence, in the face of difficult circumstances.

Annotated bibliography- 5 sources ( 2 books and 3 articles), your secondary sources should be published recently, after 1990

· List the sources in your paper

· Provide a concise summary of each source and state its value or relevance to your topic and essay

· 4-5 sentences

What is a secondary source?

· Peer-reviewed articles or books

· Individuals who are subject matter experts who are reviewing a particular work in their field

· 2-3 people who review that article or book

· Typically written by scholars and in the context of a history course, written by historians

· A graduate degree, but mainly a PhD, in their field

· Considered subject experts

· Published by an academic press- university of Toronto press, oxford university, Harvard university etc

· They should have citations: citations mean that an author is properly referencing another person and their ideas

What is an example of a secondary source?

· Scholarly articles- from a journal

· Scholarly books-

· Dissertations (MA or PhD thesis)- THERE SHOULD BE ONE ARTICLE OF MA OR PHD THESIS, IF YOU HAVE ALL ARTICLES OF MA OR PHD THESIS YOU NEED TO REVALUATE YOUR SOURCES!!

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