Overview
You will now begin organizing your research and secondary source material for the upcoming research paper. You do this by creating an annotated bibliography of 6 sources related to the topic of your research paper. (Review the final draft directions for the prompt and other details.)
Prompt
The prompt of the annotated bibliography is the same as your research paper–because the annotated bibliography is a prep assignment for the research paper.
Note: the sources for the annotated bibliography should be about the theme topic, not the film.
Directions
Building on your previous assignments, create an annotated bibliography. It should include scholarly 6 sources with citations, summaries, and biographies. Any sources that cannot be validated as being expert, peer-reviewed, or fact-checked sources must be dropped and replaced with valid sources for scholarship. (Note: The annotated bibliography requires 6 sources, but later the research paper will only require you to use the 4 best sources from this list of 6. The key to this assignment is 6 sources.)
The entire page should be properly formatted in MLA 9.
Here are the parts that each source must have:
- The citations describe where you found the source and must be written in MLA 9 format. Note, MLA 9 is a standardized format, so don’t just guess how you think it should be written. The formatting is graded.
- The summaries explain what the source is about in at least 200 words. Write the summary in a paragraph: the topic sentence is the main idea of the whole paper. The next few sentences of the summary should be the major ideas that support the paper’s claim. You may include a short quote. The final sentence in the summary should explain what’s unique about this source, how it could help you in your research paper.
- The evaluation of the author or publisher is a few sentences after the summary that explain how the author or publisher is an expert on the topic. You should name only exact details like the author’s education, previous publications, or employment related to the topic of the paper. Don’t include opinions like he’s a “great expert”; simply stick to the facts. And only include relevant information related to the topic of your paper; information not related to the topic of the paper should be cut from the citation (family, hobbies, or unrelated education, employment, and publications). If there is no author, provide information about the publisher such as being a peer-reviewed journal or produced by a university press.
Warning on Sources: Summary and analysis websites that sell or traffic in essays, summaries, and other course content cannot be used as scholarly sources for your research papers, nor can AI-generated content be used. Using these sources to look up answers or replace your own thoughts or writing is cheating. This includes but is not limited to Chatbot GPT, Course Hero, Grade Saver, Chegg Study Guides, Cliff’s Notes, Yahoo! Answers, Answers.com, Slideshare, OPPapers.com, Scribd, and Sparknotes.
The entire page should be properly formatted in MLA 9.
Objective
- Demonstrate ability to locate scholarly sources related to a specific topic
- Demonstrate ability to summarize non-fiction
- Demonstrate ability to identify appropriate sources for scholarship
- Demonstrate ability to list sources in MLA 9 format
Grading Criteria
- Quality and quantity of appropriate sources for scholarship
- Appropriateness of sources based on the author/publisher biographies
- Connection of sources to prompt of the assignment (evidenced by the summaries)
- Quality of MLA 9 citation formatting
- Quality of MLA page formatting
Accepted Files
.doc, .docx, .pdf