18 Oct In what ways do you anticipate your annotated bibliography being helpful to you in writing a strong, compelling argument research essay

Breaking the Cherry-Picking Habit – Why Write an Annotated Bibliography? Layers of Information and Finding Your Source’s “Niche” in Your Argument

 

Required Resources

 

Read/review the following resources for this activity:

 

Textbook: pp. 2-26, 32-36, and review pages 270-293 & 337-356.

 

Lesson

 

Minimum of 1 scholarly source (in addition to the textbook)

 

Apply the following writing resources to your posts:

 

Link (website): APA Citation and Writing (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)

 

Initial Post Instructions

 

Main Post Paragraph 1: Share Your Thoughts on Annotated Bibliographies

 

Please take the time to reflect and to honestly respond to all of the following (in a single, well-developed paragraph):

 

When you started this class, did you fully understand the definition of an “annotated bibliography”?

 

Based on your textbook and lesson readings for this week, what do you now understand an annotated bibliography to be? Have you been guilty of “cherry picking” from the sources you write about? Explain.

 

In what ways do you anticipate your annotated bibliography being helpful to you in writing a strong, compelling argument research essay?

 

Also, after reviewing the lesson and the textbook, what remaining questions do you have about the annotated bibliography in general and/or about our assignment this week?

 

Main Post Paragraph 2: Perform an Initial Source Evaluation

 

Part of this week’s assignment will ask you to richly evaluate your potential sources for your argument research essay. This post will get you started by allowing you to practice with one of those sources. In a single, rich paragraph:

 

Introduce the source by author, title, and year, and summarize it briefly.

 

Explain why you chose this source over others.

 

Briefly run through all five elements of the CRAAP test.

 

How thoroughly have you read this source and how many times?

 

How have you benefited from more thorough readings of the source?

 

Follow-Up Post Instructions

 

Respond to at least one peer. Here, we have an opportunity to learn by example and to offer guidance for one another. The purpose of your responses to others is to support success. Provide rich feedback that you feel guides your classmates toward a high-quality annotated bibliography. Try to reply to classmates who have not yet received a useful response.

 

Approaches to the Poverty/Health Care Connection

 

 *Your sources must be published between 2018 and 2021 and must be scholarly in nature. You will perform your research in our library, narrowing your search to these years and to “scholarly sources only.”

 

For your major argument research essay, please identify a very specific connection between poverty and healthcare. Consider multiple reasonable approaches, choosing the approach you believe is best. Your thesis will be similar to the ones below; you will choose the very specific topic that most appeals to you and will argue for your approach as more viable than other reasonable approaches.

 

A possible thesis pattern (fill in the brackets and the blank with your specific choices):

 

While there are multiple viable solutions to lowering the impact of poverty on [choose a health impact like: mental health/one specific age group like prenatal/neonatal/preschool, elementary, ‘tween, teen, young adult, geriatric], the best approach is _________________________.

 

 Another possible thesis pattern (fill in the brackets and the blank with your specific choices):

 

Many approaches to addressing [choose an issue like the lack of mental health care/higher rates of a specific condition like heart disease or diabetes/physical access to health care/negative attitudes toward health care/less action regarding preventative care and minor illnesses/a specific health care issue of your choice] for people living in poverty exist; however, the most effective course of action would be to   _______________________.

 

This theme is broad and offers many possibilities for specific argumentative research topics. So, please keep in mind that you must find a narrowed focus related to this theme that is arguable and that is not based in personal belief. 

 

If we plan to persuade our readers about a controversial issue, we need to know what the experts have said about our topic.

 

You will use the Chamberlain library to find articles where experts discuss the pros of your chosen topic.