Essay--

Purpose: As you begin to research your topic for the final paper, it will be important for you to make sure that you understand what you are reading in your sources. To this end, you will be required to find some of your sources as soon as possible, and, with two of them, explain the source to an audience. This is an extended form of an annotated bibliography, where you will take and organize notes on a subject for the purpose of using those notes to write your paper later on down the road.

Requirements: The article you select must 1) be from a peer reviewed academic source, or a source of similar quality, and 2) the source MUST be related to your topic from the the preliminary argument paper. While I will allow you to change topics, if you must, I strongly encourage you to keep whatever topic you start with as it will be a lot easier than changing topics.

Your analysis must include the following:

A correct MLA Works Cited entry;

A brief summary of the article that is NOT the abstract (you must write it);

A collection of quotations and/or paraphrases that you might want to use in the final paper later on;

Some amount of writing explaining why this matters to your research paper and how you think you will use it in the final paper.

Aside from the MLA Works Cited entry, what the rest of this looks like is largely up to you. This is a document that you will be creating mostly for your benefit as you move towards drafting the final paper.

Format: The paper should take about 1 pages to complete this information. If you can get all of this done in one page, that would be better. This is a case where you need to both create an exhaustive record of your research, but also where brevity is useful as it will help you to complete the paper down the road. Aside from the header and basic signature of MLA format, how this looks is up to you.

Due Dates: The weeks of February 7th and 14th

You will do this twice, once each time with a different article.