Here are the instructions for the asssignment provided by the teacher:
This week you read “Young Goodman Brown.” I’ve provided two articles over that short story that you are going to review and write an ann. bib. over. Don’t worry, you don’t have to read and memorize them to complete this. Since a bib. is often compiled before you start really diving into writing your essay, you skim the sources to get the basic summary, evaluate the quality of the source, and determine if it will be useful to your project.
When you are reading, you want to pay attention to the opening pages. This is where the author’s argument is going to be and how they set up that argument is important. They will lay the foundation by presenting the ongoing conversation about the text. The issue being presented and who is saying what and why. Sometimes the authors will be breaking the rules of beginning academic writing left, right, and center. Since these are much longer works, they often have more complex, multi-sentence thesis statements (and sometimes multi-paragraph intros). It’s your job to extract that thesis, and then ascertain how they are supporting it with the body paragraphs.
- Read the article and do an “active reading.” This is the act of underlining or highlighting important concepts, marking the thesis and topic sentences, circling any unfamiliar words and defining them in the margin, etc., that you think are interesting, or that make good points. It’s okay if you don’t understand everything in the entire article – literary criticism can be challenging to read (and sometimes it’s not written well at all – that’s a fair judgement)! Focus on the points that you do understand.
- Find the author’s point, or thesis, in the article. What are they saying about the topic? How are they contributing to the overall discussion?
- How is that point supported throughout the body of the essay (hint: check the conclusion where the author wraps up their points if you’re feeling lost).
Then, write one annotation for each source. An annotation consists of:
- a correct citation for the work (using a hanging indent)
- an annotation (using a first line indents) that includes:
- a summary of the work (in third person, referring to the work in the present tense) – about 7 sentences.
- a evaluation of the work (in third person, referring to the work in the present tense) – 1-2 sentences.
- a assessment of the works usefulness to your argument essay (in first person) – this should be 1-2 sentences max. Since you aren’t actually writing an essay on this material, you can skip this sentence, but don’t forget it next time!
This work does not need an introduction of a conclusion.
Each work should be alphabetized by the first word in the bibliographic entry (just like a works cited page).
Some annotated bibliographies will ask you to break up the sections of the annotation into separate paragraphs or keep them all together. Others will ask you to include different information. It changes based on the discipline and purpose of the document.
Here are the articles:
https://go-gale-com.tccd.idm.oclc.org/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=txshracd2560&id=GALE|A763707717&v=2.1&it=r&sid=bookmark-AONE&asid=e96da11e
https://www.proquest.com/docview/216784763?accountid=7079&parentSessionId=sUdY%2FGtCIVowL9WoIK3mx4sa6rPmFd1rypKueHvWff8%3D&sourcetype=Scholarly%20Journals