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annotated_bibliography.docxAnnotated Bibliography (professors require )
Due: November 6
Value: 50 points
Once you’ve thought of a question and thought of a way to answer that question, you need to start looking into the conversation surrounding the topic. This is where your annotated bibliography (and later, literature review) will come in.
For your annotated bibliography, you need to come up with at least five scholarly sources related to your topic that would be useful in your final project. One of these can be your article from your article critique. Any articles we are using in class that are also useful for your topic can be included in the bibliography, but do not count towards your total. The same goes for non-scholarly sources and novels you may need to use.
Your bibliography needs to include MLA citations and then an annotation for each entry. The annotation should include:
· A summary of the source
· A critical assessment of the source
In the final bibliography, I want to see the most relevant, helpful sources you’ve found. You should initially find more than five sources, but then by the time you’ve narrowed them down based on critical assessment, you will have a shorter final list.
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/
Annotated Bibliography Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvQb2OdV-_I
Research we will did (Research Process):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9XqLcAce04
Topic I choose and I wrote
How cover appearance affect my school students when they want to choose romance book? A random searching study.
Secondary research strategy:
I plan to find totally 5 scholarly source article that related to my topic. I am going to find an article that how color or picture affect people’s emotion or how they affect people when they want to choose something. It maybe not related to romance, but I know I cannot find any article about how cover appearance affect people when they choosing romance book? It is a gap or niche for my topic, which means I only can find article that related to romance or only related to design. I find less scholarly source article for my topic but I find one me magazine source named Anatomy of a Cover. I also find a book named Book cover designs / Matthew Goodman ; foreword by Nicole Caputo. I plan to rent this book next week and see that does this book can give me some help? I also find a book named The Look of Love: The Art of the Romance Novel , I think it also will give my many help.
Primary research strategy:
I am inclined to do more work on primary research, because I cannot find much information about my topic. I am going do a random searching from our school students. I want to research about 20-50 people (50 will be the best). I will ask same questions for interviews or the questionnaire. Or maybe I will did questionnaire for 20-50 people and did an interviews for 5 people.
At the first, I will ask the question that if you want to choose a book, what it the things you first looking for? (Multiple choice) I want to make sure how many people choose book by book cover.
Then, I will find some book cover pictures, which contain romance, science fiction, thrillers, fantasy, or historical novel books. I am going to use some Chinese book covers that American students never see before to do this research, because such as Fifty Shades of Grey or Release me are popular novel, if I use those covers, some people maybe know them. I will ask them, what do you think this book will be? A romance, science fiction, thrillers, fantasy, or historical books? (Multiple choice) (I never know how American people choose book, it give me some ideas) And what do you feel about this cover? (Answer) I also will ask them, what do you think the story talk about in the book? I will ask some question about color. Like, which color you think can describe love? And why? Pink, red, purport, yellow, blue….. (I believe, pink color means love. I just want to make sure for it.)
For the end of the research, I will put a question that if the book contain sex content, what element do you think the cover must? If the book not contain any sex content, what element do you think the cover must? (A research question about how they choose book.)
Annotated Bibliography draft that I wrote before, you can change or add whatever you want.
“Who Says You Can’t Judge a Book by its Cover?”
Summery
This article is a research article and Author did a research in the University of Waikato libraries. Vanderschantz believe, “first impressions are everything” so book cover is very important. Different book cover can have big effect for people on choose book. He use some source to talk about the importance of cover design and the design process of trade books. Then he did the research report. They did random selection for the research. They got results about different between the physical properties of the cover and the contents of the cover. Author talk about important about a book jacket, book banding, visual features of the cover. Then, author write how color and picture on cover affect people when choose books. Also typeface and size affect people when choose book. (Vanderschantz)
Assess
This article is a scholarly source and an academic journal which wrote by many authors. They did research in the University of Waikato libraries about how different book covers affect people when choosing book. Opinions that authors wrote in the article will affect people’s choices when they choosing book by look book cover. Authors effectively presented his argument by stating book jacket, book banding, visual features of the cover (color and picture), typeface and size (title and authors name on cover). Information they found from the research are primary source and they are credible. The article also have many work cite that they use from other scholarly articles to prove their opinion. The article talk most things on how to choose academic books by different cover and they are credible. However, this research have limited about people choosing book by cover. The insufficient they have is that they only did a research on academic books and they did a research in the University library. The cover is not very important for academic book when students and researcher choosing them. Actually, most student choose the academic book because the book is required for their class. Also when students did a research and try to find some scholarly source by books, they usually see book title first, then see the book introduction.
Reflect
Vanderschantz believe, “first impressions are everything” so book cover is very important. It is true, and the point is very helpful for my research topic. Authors effectively presented his argument by stating book jacket, book banding, visual features of the cover (color and picture), typeface and size (title and authors name on cover). Those point not only show in the academic books, also work for novel books. This article is a very good start for my research topic.
Comment from my professor:
Look at your Everyday Writer for information on how you format a document in MLA format. This is not MLA format. You should always say the name of the article and the author at the very beginning of a summary so the reader knows what you're talking about. Call the author by his name, not "Author." As far as English mechanics go, you may want to have someone read over your paper before you submit it, to clean up the grammatical issues -- it is a little hard to understand. When you cite, use a page number. What books did the author talk about? What kinds of things on the book covers, etc., affected the way people chose books? Can you support the point you make that " Information they found from the research are primary source and they are credible" ? You should indent paragraphs rather than put spaces between them; this is part of MLA format. Your content, especially in your critique part, is pretty good -- you make a pretty good case for the article and also do a good job of explaining it's limitations. 7/10 for writing, 5/5 for article
Work need to do:
Need 5 scholarly sources
1. Who Says You Can’t Judge a Book by its Cover? (PDF)
2. Book : The Look of Love: The Art of the Romance Novel (online)
Still need 3 more scholarly sources (must be book or Journal articles). Please find 3 more scholarly sources and write Annotated Bibliography for all 5 scholarly sources.
