Annotated Bibliography #1 Directions – ENG 1020 Spring 2020 (For AB drafts & Final Drafts due dates, please refer to Unit #1 due dates) What is an annotated bibliography and what is its purpose?: An Annotated bibliography is a list of all of the sources you intend to include in your research paper. You are doing this assignment in order to show me that you have found, read, and considered at least 6 reputable sources for your paper. More importantly, this assignment will help you refect on what the authors and sources offer you in order for you to frmly understand your topic/issue and both or many sides of the issue. This assignment will also help you to create a clear claim with strong supports, consider and fnd the best counterarguments and form rebuttals to these counterarguments. Your Six sources must be NEW sources. Although you may use the articles from your Reader Response essays for your argument essay (if they apply), you are not allowed to use those articles in your annotated bibliography. I want you to fnd an additional six sources for this assignment. Your Sources: Please fnd and use reputable articles and sources. You may fnd these by going directly to major publications, newspapers and news sources, journals, and government and educational sites on the web. If in doubt, use the CRAP Test. Also, Using Tri C Library databases to fnd your articles is one of the surest ways to know that you are using reputable sources! Also, you will want to avoid using reference type sources like Wikipedia, dictionary.com, and WebMD and others like this for this AB assignment. While you may use some reference-type sources for your argument essay if need be, they will not be counted as one of your required sources. Avoid any sources that may lack fact-checking, such as random websites. If unsure about a website, read their “About” or the “Mission” to get a sense of what type of source it is. If still unsure, ask me, a tutor, or the librarian. Your Annotated Bibliography should include SIX new sources, each with an MLA formatted Works cited entry, followed by a brief summary & description of the article, an assessment of the source and author/or publication, and fnally a descriptive refection on the source’s possible uses for your paper. See below for description of an entry, followed by examples. Notice the formatting and content of the entries. Description & Format of an Annotated Bibliiography entry: (there are FOUR parts to each entry) Part 1). Article or Source here in MLA formatting: Author’s Last Name, First Name. “Title of Article.” Name of Publication, Volume, Issue, Date, Pages. Name of Database, DOI 0r URL, Accessed Day Month Year. (EX. OF ARTICLE WITH AUTHOR FOUND ON THE DATABASES) Part 2). Compose a brief summary or description of the work, noting its topic, scope (scope may be time-based, as in a piece that follows and includes the history of an issue or topic or scope could consider the length and depth of article), and main focus. You may include the author’s claim (if there is one) and note the type of piece it is (report, narrative report, case study, call-toaction, argument, profle piece, explainer, etc.). In the summary, please objectively Include the Annotated Bibliography 1 main points (these are the big ideas, the main things the article is expressing), a few important sub-points (might be supporting or relating to the main points), and possibly, one or two key details to best summarize the contents of the piece. If a source reports on research, the research methods may also be important to include here. Be sure that your summary represents the source accurately and objectively. Do not include any quoted information or actual numbers in your summary. You do not need to fully signal to the author, “title of piece,” and more in this type summary, as the Works Cited entry is right above and all of that info is included in it. Part 3). Evaluative comments. Evaluate the article contents, author, and/or publication. Some things to consider: Consider how authoritative the source is, how up-to-date it is, and whether it addresses multiple perspectives, what types of support does the article include that give it authority, and more! Consider both its strengths and weaknesses. More on authority: Consider if the author is an expert authority on topic, or perhaps, that the author is a seasoned writer who focuses on certain topics of focus. You may have to read the author’s bio to learn this! Also, consider the type of article and the type of publication. What kind is it? Who is its audience? What should we understand from this information when evaluating a source? Part 4). Indication of how each source will inform your research. Please be clear and use defnitive information and explain how and where in the essay you might use particular information. In this section, please explain how you expect to use the source: Does it present a certain perspectives you need to consider? Does it include illustrative numbers and statistics? Concrete examples and studies? Anecdotal evidence? Compelling supports? Compelling counterarguments? Reports on important new research? Include a thorough bibliography that might alert you to other sources? How does the source relate to others? How does the source contribute to your understanding of the topic and to your research goals? Or if you fnd that is isn’t helpful to your project, explain why you won’t use it. Please be specifc. Example of Annotated Bibliography entry (for a print book): Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. Henry Holt and Company, 2001. In this book-length narrative report based on the journalist’s experiential research, author Barbara Ehrenreich attempts to ascertain whether it is currently possible for an individual to live on minimum-wage in America. Taking jobs as a waitress, a maid in a cleaning service, and a Walmart sales employee, the author summarizes and refects on her work, her relationships with fellow workers, and her fnancial struggles in each situation in order to uncover frst and second-person eye-witness accounts in order to answer her query. She includes not only these experientialbased eye-witness accounts and experiences but also offers as support essential statistics to inform and present the reader with a through document of the employment situation for low-wage earners in the U.S. Ehrenreich, often focusing on social critique as a journalist and writer, has contributed to major publications and has published over 23 books on topics including income inequality, war as a human pursuit, the fawed American dream, and the American wellness movement. As an experienced journalist, Ehrenreich is aware of the limitations of her experiment and the ethical Annotated Bibliography 2 implications of her experiential research tactics and refects on these issues in the text. Her awareness of the limitations of her experiential research helps to assuage some of my doubts or misgivings about her tactics. The author is forthcoming about her methods and supplements her experiences with scholarly research on her places of employment, the economy, and the rising cost of living in America. Although, published in 2001, Ehrenreich’s project addresses the current wage issues and some of the reasons for the continued growth in income inequality in the U.S. Her work here is descriptive, informative, engaging, and well-researched. This book will help me address why many people, although they are working numerous hours, are still living in poverty, may live with multiple adults to make it, or may even be homeless, or on the brink of homelessness. Ehrenreich has provided many anecdotal examples, some of which I will use to help illustrate the issue to my readers, quite possibly in the introduction, and perhaps, in the support paragraph that focuses on wages and housing costs. With these anecdotal examples, I will be able to not only illustrate the issues as real by including concrete examples of those earning low wages, working low hours, and having housing costs, but I will be able to tap into the pathos of the reader and connect with them more deeply on the issue. I will also use some of the statistical evidence from the book to show the numbers of those working two and three jobs who remain near or under the poverty line in the U.S. Using this type of evidence will provide concrete support and will also allow me to gain the trust of my readers. I may also confer with the research sources the author has included to provide me with additional concrete evidence (stats and numbers) in my paper. Also, I will compare her examples with data provided in other sources. Example of Annotated Bibliography entry (from a Student Sample – source is from a major publication found directly on the web): Gregory, Andrew. “How Social Media Is Hurting Your Memory.” Time, 8 May 2018, time.com/5267710/social-media-hurts-memory/. Accessed 17 Nov. 2019. The article focuses on the idea that by posting experiences to social media platforms, we’re hurting our ability to remember details about that same experience. The author briefy introduces an experiment done in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, which shows that those who chose to document and share their experiences on social media, weren’t able to form clear memories. Gregory describes another set of studies led by Diana Tamir, of Princeton University, in which researchers studied the effects of sharing photos to social media on memory. They found that while documenting and sharing the experience didn’t affect their enjoyment, people who wrote down their experiences performed worse on memory tests. The author, Andrew Gregory, is a Time Magazine health writer who only has three articles published. This makes his credibility fairly weak. However, since he brings in some studies led by researchers, this gave the article authority, and made it more trustworthy. One weakness, however, is that he doesn’t do a good job of describing or naming these researchers. For example, he names Diana Tamir, but he doesn’t include her title. There’s no way to know who she is other than her association with Princeton University. However, upon a quick google search, it was easy to fnd her credentials. She’s an assistant professor with a Ph.D. and M.A both in Psychology. In addition, with an extensive resume totaling seven pages, it can be concluded that she is a reputable source. Including her credentials in the article would have solidifed the sources authority. One Annotated Bibliography 3 strength that I found is that the author explores each aspect of the experiments rather than focusing solely on social media. He recognized that social media isn’t the only culprit of memory defcit. Considering the article is not a scientifc journal, it’s directed more toward the general public. This article was posted mid-2018, so it’s a fairly recent article, making the information up to date. The audience could be those that are curious about how screen time affects our memory and the way we process information. Since this article included a lot of credible information, this source will be useful in my essay. This article would best be useful in my support paragraphs as its main focus is a negative aspect of digital media. I plan to use one of the statistics in my support paragraph, which is that those that wrote down their experience performed 10% worse on memory tests. This is the only aspect of this article that I anticipate using. This source differs from others as its main body is explaining studies that were performed, giving it more credibility than others I’ve read. This source, in particular, helped solidify my rough claim, which is that digital media is affecting child development.
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