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Homework answers / question archive / Essay 3: Annotating a Bibliography Essay Length: at least 2,000 words Number of Sources/Bibliographic Entries: 5 Note: Work cited entries and words within quotations don’t count towards the essay length
Essay 3: Annotating a Bibliography Essay
Length: at least 2,000 words
Number of Sources/Bibliographic Entries: 5
Note: Work cited entries and words within quotations don’t count towards the essay length.
Only your own written words count towards the length, which will be your evaluations of sources, summaries of source material, paraphrased source material, and your overall response at the end of the bibliography.
Each entry should be at least 300 words of your own words. After all five of your source entries, you will write your overall response of at least 500 words about what you learned from the literature (sources) that you read.
If you do not have 5 sources/entries X 300 words for 1,500 words, with a 500 word response at the end, for a total of at least 2,000 words, then the essay will receive a zero for not meeting the essay requirements.
Instructions: Your assigned current issue is COVID-19. But what you choose to research about COVID-19 is up to you. You should not research something obvious. Go beyond the obvious, general information. Find an angle that interests you or that connects to your potential major of study or career choice. For instance, what are the effects of the pandemic on college athletics departments? How has it changed protocols at zoos? Is there a correlation between COVID-19 and depression? See how there is a whole world of topics out there, worldwide? We will be using the COVID-19 library guide for this project, in addition to the library databases.
The goal of this research project is to introduce you to college-level research via college library databases. You will learn to access a variety of sources, read a broad type of literature about your issue to educate yourself on it (from background/reference material to recent news stories and editorials/opinions), and then present your research findings in an annotated bibliography format, typical for college classes, for a professor. In the end, you will respond to your issue, sharing your new, informed opinion on what you read.
Note: You will not be able to research and read everything there is about COVID-19. You begin with background/reference material to get a grounding and understanding of the issue, and then you start to narrow in on what you want to know more about, some particular aspect or aspects of the big issue.
An annotated bibliography is a list of your sources that includes a short summary and an annotation for each source entry. This common assignment quickly informs a reader about the direction and depth of your research. You should always conduct more research than what appears in your bibliography that you turn in. It also demonstrates your mastery of two major college research skills: identifying a source and writing a summary.
An annotated bibliography entry begins with the MLA citation.
Then you write a one paragraph summary of the source, beginning with a topic sentence that (1) identifies the author(s), (2) the name of the source, and (3) the main idea of the source.
After that, you present the main points of the source in the order in which they appeared in the source, in a neutral tone even if you disagree with it. (If your source is a research article that includes an abstract, you absolutely cannot use the abstract as your summary. That, of course, is plagiarism!) You reserve judgment and hold aside any bias when you summarize source information. This summary is similar to the two you already did in our summary/response essay and our writing a review essay. Now, however, it is for a “source” that you accessed.
After the summary comes your evaluation of the source. You comment on its validity and/or reliability.
Last you will work with the source by writing (1) a long quotation, (2) a paraphrase, and (3) a blended quotation, in that order, choosing information from the source that you believe to be the 3 most important details from the source to aid a reader in understanding its main idea that you identified in your summary. This part is how we are learning to work with our sources. Usually, a bibliography for another class wouldn’t include this part, but for ENGL 1301, we are learning how to integrate source material in a variety of ways.
The sample long quote must be introduced, formatted, and cited with a parenthetical citation.
The sample paraphrase must be introduced, formatted, and cited with a parenthetical citation.
And the blended quote (quoted material blended with your own words) must be introduced, formatted, and cited with a parenthetical citation. This serves as our introduction to integrating sources.
Each entry begins on its own page. The five should be ordered in alphabetical order based on the MLA citation.
After the 5 entries of your annotated bibliography, you will write an overall response of at least 500 words based on the literature (source information) that you presented. This response is similar to the one you already did in your summary/response essay. Here you offer your opinion, what you think, about what you read. It should be a formal, informed opinion about the issue, based on the information you provided.
Databases: Your sources must come from the databases at LSC-Kingwood library, and you must use databases under the category of Current Issues & News. You need to use at least 2 different databases from that category to access the sources that will appear in your bibliography. Remember, you should be accessing many more sources than actually wind up in your paper. For the purpose of this assignment, make sure you include sources from at least 2 different databases under this category.
Here is a partial list:
Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints
If you happen to be researching a topic that would fit a different category, such as a science topic in the category of Science & Technology, or a mental health topic in the category of Health & Medicine or Social Sciences, yes, you can access sources from databases housed under those categories. However, you still need to use the minimum of 2 databases from the Current Issues & News category.
Sources: You must have in your annotated bibliography one reference source, one journalism source, and one editorial/opinion source. Besides those 3 sources, your other 2 can be your choice.
Note: In this assignment you are demonstrating your ability to locate a variety of sources from different databases, and your ability to correctly identify types of sources.
Format: MLA format. Use the heading for an MLA paper, along with the proper header. Your title will be Annotated Bibliography: then insert name of your specific topic. For instance: Annotated Bibliography: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Remote Learning among Kindergartners
Then you will do your 5 entries, and you do them in alphabetical order. Each entry begins on its own page, at the top of the page. The parts of each entry will go in this order:
Entry Number
MLA Citation
Summary (this is your first paragraph of the entry)
Evaluation (this is your second paragraph of the entry)
Long Quotation (this is in your third paragraph of the entry)
Paraphrase (this is in your third paragraph of the entry)
Blended Quotation (this is in your third paragraph of the entry)
After all 5 of your entries, you write your 500 word response.
Grading: 200 total points
Grading is 30 points per entry X 5 entries = 150 points
Breakdown is:
MLA Citation = 5 points (full credit for accurate citation or no credit for inaccurate citation)
Summary = 5 points (partial credit awarded based on the summary)
Evaluation = 5 points (partial credit awarded based on the evaluation)
Long Quote = 5 points (partial credit awarded based on accuracy)
Paraphrase = 5 points (partial credit awarded based on rephrasing)
Blended Quote = 5 points (partial credit awarded based on accuracy)
Grading is 50 points for the response. Your response is graded on structure, voice and style, and the validity of your informed opinion. It should have a thesis.
Thesis format = name of specific issue + your opinion in 3rd person formal language, in one sentence
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