Each group is required to prepare and submit an annotated bibliography with the textual materials for their project. You will hand this document in twice; one version on 11/14, and a possibly revised version with the final project itself.
So what is an annotated bibliography?
It's a document that lists all the research sources you've used for your project but it's more than just a works cited page.
The annotation part of this bibliography calls for you to summarize and evaluate each individual source (book, article, website, interview, etc.) you called upon during your research and writing.
What is a summary?
What is the main argument of this source? What is the book/article/interview about? What topics are covered? If someone asked you what it was about, what would you say?
What is an evaluation?
How does this source fit in with your research? Why are you using it? Has it helped you formulate your argument in important ways? Has it inspired you to change directions?
What's the point of writing one of these?
From Purdue's OWL:
To learn about your topic: Writing an annotated bibliography is excellent preparation for a research project. Just collecting sources for a bibliography is useful, but when you have to write annotations for each source, you're forced to read each source more carefully. You begin to read more critically instead of just collecting information. At the professional level, annotated bibliographies allow you to see what has been done in the literature and where your own research or scholarship can fit. To help you formulate a thesis: Every good research paper is an argument. The purpose of research is to state and support a thesis. So a very important part of research is developing a thesis that is debatable, interesting, and current. Writing an annotated bibliography can help you gain a good perspective on what is being said about your topic. By reading and responding to a variety of sources on a topic, you'll start to see what the issues are, what people are arguing about, and you'll then be able to develop your own point of view.
How long do these things need to be?
Each source in your annotated bibliography, you will begin with an official MLA works cited entry and then move on to dedicate one paragraph toward summary and one toward analysis. Paragraphs can be anywhere from three to many sentences long, depending on how detailed the individual source is.
For this project, you are required to list at least five sources on the version due 11/14. You may include more than that on your final version.
Can you give me an example?
Of course! Go here and see the top example. Also note that you can click on a pdf link at the top for more.
Isn't there an online tool that can help me do this?
YES!
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