Your final paper is to be an annotated bibliography. Annotated bibliographies are useful for note-taking and evaluating sources for research papers, and when preparing a literature review. They enable researchers
This assignment is to prepare you for evaluating sources for research papers you will complete throughout your college career. You are to conduct your own keyword searches for academic journal articles relevant to your preferred subject matter. You are required to have six annotations in your bibliography and each entry is to be at least 150 words. The article citation that precedes your bibliographic entry does not contribute to the word count requirement.
For this assignment, each of your annotated bibliographies should be comprised of two parts; a summary and an assessment of each article. If this were part of a larger research project you would be asked to also reflect on your source, as outlined in the handout. But for our purposes, we are going to focus on summarizing and assessing each article. Below are some general questions you should ask yourself when trying to determine what to write to address each aspect of the prompt.
Summarize: What is the main argument? What topics are covered? If someone asked what this article/book is about, what would you say?
Assess: Is it a useful source? How does it compare with other sources in your bibliography? Is the information reliable? Is this source biased or objective? What is the goal of this source?
It would be appropriate to offer some criticisms of each source when assessing. Does it seem like a reliable and current source? Why? Is the research biased or objective? Are the facts well documented? Who is the author? Is she qualified in this subject? Is this source scholarly, popular, some of both?
Each annotated entry should be roughly 150 words or half of a page. Use roughly 75 words (half) of each entry to summarize the article and the other 75 words (the other half) to assess the article. The easiest way I have found to go about this is to answer each question listed above on scratch paper and then use your answers to write each section. You do not want to simply provide answers to each question in your annotations, such as one might do when using bullet points. This is not a question-and-answer assignment where I am looking to quiz you on the correct answers. This is a writing assignment, and as such, I am looking at your ability to craft well-written annotations in paragraph form that include the aforementioned information without simply answering the questions.
Each annotation is to be in your own words, meaning there are no quotes allowed. After all, an annotated bibliography is a summary and assessment of another author’s work, which necessitates you use your own words to complete the assignment.
Your paper is to be double-spaced in 12 point Times New Roman font. You are to use ASA citation formatting for each article. The run-of-the-mill works cited page is always listed in alphabetical order by the first author’s last name, and so should your annotated bibliography. For an explanation of this, see ASA // References Page Formatting at the Purdue Owl (Links to an external site.). https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/asa_style/references_page_formatting.html
Use the below annotation as an example. Note, the citation is already in the American Sociological Association format appropriate for citing academic journal articles: you simply need to copy the format.
You will repeat the below format for each of your bibliographic entries.
Annotated Bibliography Example:
Annotated Bibliography
Kerr, Don and Roderic Beaujot. 2003. Child Poverty and Family Structure in Canada, 19811997. Journal of Comparative Family Studies 34(3):321335.
Sociology professors Kerr and Beaujot analyze the demographics of impoverished families. Drawing on data from Canadas annual Survey of Consumer Finances, the authors consider whether each family had one or two parents, the age of single parents, and the number of children in each household. They analyze child poverty rates in light of both these demographic factors and larger economic issues. Kerr and Beaujot use this data to argue that
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