Black Experience Basic Research Papertopic : Black is Beautiful…. or is it? Barriers to acceptance of the degress of African American Beauty standards
- Assignment Guidelines: Students will use the annotated bibliography form (attached below) to fill out the necessary information they will research from credible scholarly sources and peer-reviewed articles for the annotated bibliography.
- Annotated Bibliography Template (Download the form to use to complete your annotated Bibliography)
- Where should students look for credible, scholarly, peer-reviewed sources?- Search engines like Lexis Nexis (Found under the University of Akron’s Library link https://www.uakron.edu/libraries/ Examples of databases and search engines that can be used:
-
- Google Scholar
- Lexis Nexis (Found under the University of Akron’s Libraries Databases
- Academic Search Complete (Found under the University of Akron’s Databases)
- Jstor
- Science Direct
Students should find a total of 10 additional articles or credible academic sources (books are included in this) that align with their research topic. Eight (8) of the sources should be in support of your topic, and two (2) of the sources should juxtapose your topic or provide an alternative perspective. The annotated bibliography should be structured in the following way: An APA formatted Title Page: (Page 1), which should be centered. Page 1: Title of Final Research Topic: Annotated Bibliography
-
(This should be the title and the running header)
The information below should be included and should be centered as well:
The Researcher’s First and Last Name
Institution Name
Course Name and Number
Instructor’s Name
Month Day, Year
Pages: 2-8: The following format will be used to complete your annotated bibliography:
- Author, A. (Year Published). Article title. Journal Name, Volume(Issue), page range. http://doi.org/xx.xxx.xxxx
In your annotation, summarize the main points of the source. Be sure to summarize the main points using your own words. Do not copy and paste information directly from the source. Also, explain how the source is relevant to your paper.
Explain how this particular source will help you develop one or more of the main points in your essay.
-
- What theories, if any, are mentioned in the article? Theories are “perspectives” or “lenses” used to view a concept, event,
or even people and their actions. An example of a theoretical lens is a Pan Africanist/Separatist theory approach state, that African Americans and those from the African Diaspora should return to the “Motherland” of Africa to reclaim their heritage and to absorb and assimilate into the culture of Africa. The Assimilationist/Integrationist theorist would say, that African,
and African Americans should assimilate and learn how to work with and within the systems to create opportunities to co-exist without compromising their identity. They would also state that there is a need to foster environments where Africans and those who are descendants of the Diaspora should have a place in society where their culture and heritage are celebrated and acknowledged equally and equitably.
- How did they collect their data for this piece of literature?
- Did the researchers use a survey or a method they created (this is called primary data collection)?
- Did they get their data from a source like Pew Research or get statistics from the government (this is called secondary data collection?
- Is this a chronological, thematic, or methodological study?
- What is a chronological approach? (chronological order defined as Was this a study that was done over some time in chronological order (from 1955-1967 or from May 2023-October 2024),
- What is a thematic approach? (Thematic study is a theme of “women in power” or poverty in rural areas across the globe)
- What is a methodological approach? The “method” could be anything from conducting surveys to analyzing existing data, depending on the research question. Was the information collected using a survey, secondary or primary data, and was the information collected using interviews? It is possible that a study could have a combination of chronological and method data collection. Make sure to explain which type of study you are reading about.
Page 9-10: Find two articles that juxtapose (go against your research topic) and include those two articles in your annotated bibliography.
Page 11: This is where you will identify your five sub-themes or sub-topics that are: Connected to your topic and that you will cover in your final research paper.
You can introduce the five sub-topics by creating a sub-header titled:
Final Research Paper Sub-Topics/Themes.
Here you want to state: in this section, the five sub-topics that will be covered in the final research paper are as follows:
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Congratulations! You just completed your first annotated bibliography! You will use this bibliography to complete your research outline.
Once the annotated bibliography is completed, complete the basic research paper outline. This outline is in the learning management system here is an outline template:
I. Introduction (Write this last.)
a. Interesting fact to draw in your audience
b. Main points that you plan to address (at least 5 or 6 points)
c. Thesis Statement (You will have to develop thisbefore you get started with the research.)
II. Body paragraph (The paragraph should include 5 complete sentences).
a. Main Point #1
b. Supporting information
i. There should be supporting information from the Hine, Hine, and Harrold (2018) textbook.
ii. This is should come from an outside source (provide the name of the source and the author(s) last name(s) and the source publication year.
iii. Include APA (7th edition) formatted citations that support these points for this main point.
c. Be sure to make a clear connection to your thesis.
d. Be sure to include a clear transition sentenceindicating that you are moving from this topic to the topic in the next paragraph.
III. Body paragraph (The paragraph should include 5 complete sentences).
a. Sub point (You may use several of these after eachmajor point.)
b. Main Point 2
i. This is should come from an outside source (provide the name of the source and the author(s) last name(s) and the source publication year.
ii. Include APA (7th edition) formatted citations that support these points for this main point.
iii. There should be supporting information from the Hine, Hine, and Harrold (2018) textbook.
c. Be sure to make a clear connection to your thesis.
d. Be sure to include a clear transition sentenceindicating that you are moving from this topic to the topic in the next paragraph.
e. Supporting information
i. This is should come from an outside source (provide the name of the source and the author(s) last name(s) and the source publication year
ii. Include citations that support these points for this main point.
f. Connection to your thesis.
g. Clear transition sentence ending this topic andintroducing the new topic to be discussed in the next paragraph.
IV. Body paragraph (The paragraph should include 5 complete sentences).
a. Main Point #3
b. Supporting information
i. This is should come from an outside source (provide the name of the source and the author(s) last name(s) and the source publication year.
ii. Include APA (7th edition) formatted citations that support these points for this main point.
iii. Include APA (7th edition) formatted citations that support these points for this main point from the Hine, Hine, and Harrold (2018) textbook.
c. Be sure to make a clear connection to your thesis.
d. Be sure to include a clear transition sentenceindicating that you are moving from this topic to the topic in the next paragraph.
V. Body paragraph (The paragraph should include 5 complete sentences).
a. Main Point #4
b. Supporting information
i. This is should come from an outside source (provide the name of the source and the author(s) last name(s) and the source publication year.
ii. Include APA (7th edition) formatted citations that support these points for this main point.
iii. Include APA (7th edition) formatted citations that support these points for this main point from the Hine, Hine, and Harrold (2018) textbook.
c. Be sure to make a clear connection to your thesis.
d. Be sure to include a clear transition sentenceindicating that you are moving from this topic to the topic in the next paragraph.
VI. Body paragraph (The paragraph should include 5 complete sentences).
a. Main Point #5
b. Supporting information
i. This is should come from an outside source (provide the name of the source and the author(s) last name(s) and the source publication year.
ii. Include APA (7th edition) formatted citations that support these points for this main point.
iii. There should be supporting information from the Hine, Hine, and Harrold (2018) textbook.
c. Be sure to make a clear connection to your thesis.
d. Be sure to include a clear transition sentenceindicating that you are moving from this topic to the topic in the next paragraph.
VII. Conclusion
a. Wrap up the information that you havealready discussed.
i. This is not the place to introduce newinformation.
ii. Anything that you mention here should havebeen discussed elsewhere in the paper.
b. What did you learn overall from your research?
c. Did you find articles that disproved or went against your research, if so, what did those articles say and what were their results?
d. What areas do you think that should be discussed that was not covered in your research?