Description
Your annotated bibliography should include at least 10 sources appropriate for your area of inquiry and field of study and reflective of the types of sources that practitioners and professionals in the field consult (i.e., academic/scholarly sources may be extremely relevant to your research, but in some fields, different types of texts such as government publications or primary sources may also be extremely important and necessary facets of research and analytical inquiry).
Six (6) will be fully annotated (where you complete questions 1-3 from the assignment requirements), and the remaining four (4) will include #1 followed by a few sentences explaining why these sources are currently runner-ups for your final paper (in other words, they are decent, fairly credible sources, but as of right now, you are uncertain about using them for your paper. For example, perhaps they informed your understanding of the field, but are possibly a little too general or off-topic from your specific issue). The annotated bibliography should reflect major perspectives/viewpoints in your topic choice.
Each of your source annotations should address the following:
An accurate bibliographic entry in MLA format. Remember, it should be Paragraphs #2 and #3 will follow each entry. Requirement #4 will follow at the very end of the list.
Understanding of the source itself. SUMMARIZE: Each annotation should discuss not only the main arguments of the source you have read, but also the key issues/problems it addresses and raises, as well as the analytical methodologies or lenses it uses to approach its research. The point here is not to offer a point-by-point summary of the article, but rather, to discuss the “core” elements of the piece: motivating problems/issues, argument/response, and methodological approach. What is this text doing, saying, and contributing?
Assessment/evaluation of the source in the context of the field and your own research. ANALYZE/EVALUATE: Your annotations should thoroughly evaluate, analyze, and discuss the relevance and utility of the source within the context of the field and your own research: a) How and why is this text important or relevant to the field of research as you understand it (through your own reading)? b) What has it added to your own emerging understanding of this topic/issue/field? c) How does this text complement, support, or contradict the other sources you have included (you do not need to discuss its connection to every other source)? d) Why do you find this source trustworthy/credible? The analytical practices that you have practiced thus far in our class will serve as the basis for your assessment and evaluation of each