18 Nov Annotated Bibliography – Review potential sources for your research paper project

Topic and Structure:

Annotated Bibliography – Review potential sources for your research paper project (you should already have your research essay topic chosen), and select two to explore further, with at least one qualifying as a periodical.

Here are some possible places to search for credible sources:

• Truman State University’s Pickler Memorial Library (this source lists periodical databases only, so you may choose your periodical here): http://library.truman.edu/Free/free.asp

• Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/ (note that this is different from regular Google)

• Microsoft Academic Search: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/

• Cornell University’s arXiv (open access sources in math, biology, physics, and other fields): http://arxiv.org/

• Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE): http://www.base-search.net/

• Your local library 

This assignment does not follow the standard introduction, body paragraph, and conclusion format; instead, you will simply create three well-developed paragraphs per source, each with a specific objective, for six paragraphs total. For each of your two chosen resources, you will summarize the material, assess the source’s content, and reflect on its value for your research paper project. Some sources are long and contain main ideas and subtopics, so be sure to focus your assignment on ideas that are relevant to your research paper topic. Learn more about summarizing, assessing, and reflecting here.

This essay also requires a particular format in which you will summarize, assess, and reflect on one source in full before you move to the next one. See the sample here under “Sample MLA Annotation” for format details.

Notes

• Make the title of your annotated bibliography your research paper project’s topic.

• On the line under your title, but left-aligned on the page, include your proposed research essay’s thesis so that graders can provide some preliminary feedback.

Your submission should include: 

• A title that explains the topic of your Research Paper.

• Your underlined thesis that you’re going to argue in your Research Paper and you will support with the sources used in your Annotated Bibliography.

• Your first source in the appropriate MLA format. Please take a look at the sample to see how the MLA citation should look.

• Three paragraphs about your first source. The first paragraph should summarize the material from this source. Your second paragraph should assess the source’s content, and the third paragraph should reflect on its value for your research paper project.

• Your second source in MLA format.

• Three paragraphs about your second source. The first paragraph should summarize the material from this source. Your second paragraph should assess the source’s content, and the third paragraph should reflect on its value for your research paper project.

• A Works Cited page listing the sources used in MLA format and alphabetical order.