What is an annotated bibliography? A bibliography is an alphabetized list of sources that you plan to cite, including your primary text. An annotation is an evaluative paragraph of approximately 150 words that provides information about the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited.
Why create an Annotated Bibliography? You will create an Annotated Bibliography to help you scrutinize and critically evaluate sources for your Research Paper. Selecting sources is a deliberate and careful undertaking that will help to pave the way to a well-considered scholarly effort in the Research Paper. This assignment will help prepare you for the Research Paper, encourage critical thinking about what you read, and help you develop a current, debatable, and interesting thesis.
For this assignment, each citation must include the following:
• Citation: Create a correct and complete citation in current MLA, APA, or Turabian format for each source listed.
• Summary: Write 1–3 sentences summarizing the author’s main ideas.
• Evaluation (Assess): Name the type of source listed (book, eBook, journal article, etc.). Next, evaluate the credibility of the author, the objectivity of the work, the quality of the source, etc.
• Personal Assessment (Reflect): Show how this source is relevant to your central argument and how you will use this source in your Research Paper.
Formatting guidelines and mechanics:
• For MLA and APA: double space consistently; no additional spaces are needed between citations. For Turabian: single space with double spaces between entries.
• Use Times New Roman, 12-point font.
• Each citation begins flush at the left margin (1”). The second and any subsequent lines of the same citation are indented. This can be set up as a hanging indent.
• Italicize titles of large works (books, long poems, ships, journals).
• Put double quotation marks around the titles of short works.
• The title of a book inside a title of a book is not italicized.
• The title of a short work inside the title of a short work uses single quotation marks.
For additional information on creating and documenting annotated bibliographies, review the following at OWL Purdue: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/.
To review sample annotations, see https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/03/
Submit this assignment by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Monday of Module/Week 6.
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