This document provides instructions for writing an annotated bibliography, including what an annotated bibliography is, how to format bibliographic entries, and an example. An annotated bibliography is a list of sources for a research project that includes bibliographic citations and descriptive summaries (annotations) of each source. Entries should be arranged alphabetically by citation and include a paragraph describing the source and topic, and a paragraph discussing how the source relates to at least one other source. Students must include at least ten annotated bibliographic entries. A sample entry is provided to demonstrate the required components.
Listing your sources in a Works Cited page is only one part of the citation process; the other part is making references to your sources in the body of your paper. The purpose of the in-text citation is to inform your audience when you are making a reference to someone else's ideas, words, works, or other information you used to support your writing.
According to the MLA Handbook: "References in the text must clearly point to specific sources in the list of works cited" (214). This means that for every reference you make in your paper there should be a corresponding citation in your Works Cited page, and vice versa.
MLA formatting uses the author-page style when producing in-text citations, meaning that you should have information about the author and the page number when making reference in your paper. Here are several examples of the author-page style, followed by the citation as it would appear in your Works Cited:
Listing your sources in a Works Cited page is only one part of the citation process; the other part is making references to your sources in the body of your paper. The purpose of the in-text citation is to inform your audience when you are making a reference to someone else's ideas, words, works, or other information you used to support your writing.
According to the MLA Handbook: "References in the text must clearly point to specific sources in the list of works cited" (214). This means that for every reference you make in your paper there should be a corresponding citation in your Works Cited page, and vice versa.
MLA formatting uses the author-page style when producing in-text citations, meaning that you should have information about the author and the page number when making reference in your paper. Here are several examples of the author-page style, followed by the citation as it would appear in your Works Cited:
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How to write a Literary Essay Introduction and Thesismissmaryah
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ENGL 3332 Fall 2018 | Dr. Dominy 1
Annotated Bibliography with Review Essay
200 Points (20% of Final Grade)
Minimum Length: Thorough annotations on a minimum of five scholarly sources, plus a review
essay of at least three pages in length. Total length will be six to eight pages.
Due Sunday, 25 November 2018 at 11:59 pm in D2L/Brightspace Dropbox
Description of the Assignment
An additional core activity of literary scholars is being conversant in the extant criticism in the
field of one’s study, which means knowing how other literary scholars interpret the same texts
and authors that you have read. This assignment is designed to help you become more conversant
in the criticism of one of the short story authors whom we have read during this term. To
complete it, you will compile an annotated bibliography of at least five items of scholarly literary
criticism and then write a review essay to identify connections and more thoroughly describe the
conversation on the author.
As a refresher, an annotated bibliography is a list of sources on a subject in which each item is
accompanied with an annotation, which is a summary of the source’s thesis, central claims, and
most significant support or evidence. Many professional scholars keep these as part of their notes
(I try to keep a running, informal annotated bibliography of sources I encounter in my research).
While this annotated bibliography should be treated as a formal academic assignment, it can
serve as a model for what you should always do informally in your research.
A review essay looks at a group of recent publications in a specific field of literary scholarship in
an effort to show how recent criticism is in conversation and describe the direction that the field
is headed. They are typically published in the book review section of scholarly journals.
Having experience writing both an annotated bibliography and a review essay is important
because it will not only help you to practice some of the skills you will need to have and deploy
independently in other literature courses, like Senior Seminar, but in graduate school should you
choose to go that route. These skills transfer to other research applications, too.
Guidelines for the Annotated Bibliography portion:
You must focus on one author who is on our syllabus this term.
You must annotate at least five sources from the last five years. Consult me if you have
an issue.
Your research should focus on resources available through the library. The appropriate
resources available through the library are
o The library catalog (for books and eBooks)
o The MLA International Bibliography (for journal articles, books, eBooks, book
articles, and dissertations)
o Academic Search Complete (this is more general interest, but has more full-text)
o JSTOR (journal articles)
o The Literary Resource Center (for bibliographies and tertiary sources to help you
get star.
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Essay #4: Engaging in Civic Debates
Research-based Persuasive Argument Essay
Assignment: For this assignment, you will identify an issue hopefully of interest to you that represents a contemporary issue being debated in public discourse. This issue can be at the local, national, or international level. You must research your issue and produce a persuasive argument about it in 6-9 pages (double spaced).
The paper will follow MLA format. The font should be Times New Roman or Cambria 12pt font. You must have a minimum of seven (7) outside sources for this paper, although a strong paper will likely contain many sources beyond this minimum. These sources should cover both sides of this issue and attention should be paid to the credibility and degree of ideological bias/affiliation of the publication source. You should strive to include at least two (2) scholarly journal articles as part of your sources. This paper will follow the model of the formal argument essays studied in class and will contain a literature review, rebuttal of the opposing arguments (including concessions as needed), additional research & arguments that will support your side of the argument, as well as effective introductory and concluding sections/paragraphs. The paper will be drafted and reviewed in various sections prior to final submission (see due dates below).
Through various assignments you will begin to stage the development of your essay and situate your argument within a larger conversation, including engaging with audiences whose stance on the issue may differ from your own. The Annotated Bibliography (see separate handout) will allow you to familiarize yourself with various perspectives and arguments surrounding this issue and the Literature Review (see separate handout) will provide you with the opportunity to show your understanding of the larger context surrounding this debate (while also developing effective synthesis writing techniques). Next, the Rebuttal Paper (see separate handout) will provide a space for you to specifically address and respond to the arguments made by the opposition. These various essays will become the two major “sections” of your final Research Paper, accompanied by an effective introduction and conclusion and an additional body section devoted to additional arguments that may convince a reader that your stance on this issue is correct.
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Sample Annotated Bibliography
Student Essay Title: The Various Interpretations of Steinbeck’s Fiction
Barnes, Rebecca. “Steinbeck’s East of Eden.” The Explicator, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 159-61. Project
Muse, doi.10.1193/bjp.bk.122.09345.
Barnes analyzes Steinbeck’s novel East of Eden, paying close attention to the literary allusions found within the story. Barnes focuses primarily on the allusions to Pandora, a character from Greek mythology, and to biblical figures: Adam, Eve, Cain, and Able. She also pays close attention to the repeated symbolic usage of boxe ...
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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
What is an Annotated Bibliography?
Some of your courses at Ashford University will require you to write an Annotated Bibliography. An
Annotated Bibliography is a working list of references—books, journal articles, online documents,
websites, etc.—that you will use for an essay, research paper, or project. However, each reference
citation is followed by a short summative and/or evaluative paragraph, which is called an annotation. The
purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources
cited, and to state how this source will be used in or relevant to the paper or project.
Thus, an Annotated Bibliography has two main parts:
1. the citation of your book, article, webpage, video, or document (in APA style)
2. your annotation
How to create an Annotated Bibliography
1. Research the required number of scholarly sources from the library for your project.
2. Reference each source in APA format. For help on how to format each source, see our sample
references list.
3. Write two paragraphs under each source:
a. The first paragraph is a short summary of the article in your own words. Don’t just cut
and paste the abstract of the article.
b. The second paragraph is a short discussion of how this source supports your paper
topic. What does this source provide that reinforces the argument or claim you are
making? This support may be statistics, expert testimony, or specific examples that relate
to your focused topic.
Sample Annotated Bibliography Entry
Here is a sample entry from an Annotated Bibliography:
Belcher, D. D. (2004). Trends in teaching English for specific purposes. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics,
24(3), 165-186. doi: 10.1017/S026719050400008X.
This article reviews differing English for Specific Purposes (ESP) trends in practice and in theory. Belcher
categorizes the trends into three non-exclusive sects: sociodiscoursal, sociocultural, and sociopolitical.
Sociodiscoursal, she postulates, is difficult to distinguish from genre analysis because many of the major
players (e.g., Ann Johns) tend to research and write in favor of both disciplines. Belcher acknowledges the
preconceived shortcomings of ESP in general, including its emphasis on “narrowly-defined venues” (p.
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165), its tendency to “help learners fit into, rather than contest, existing…structures” (p. 166), and its
supposed “cookie-cutter” approach. In response to these common apprehensions about ESP, Belcher cites
the New Rhetoric Movement and the Sydney School as two institutions that have influenced progressive
changes and given more depth to “genre” (p. 167). She concludes these two schools of thought address the
issue of ESP pandering to “mono ...
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The Three-Part Topic Proposal for Research
Save this file to your computer; type in your responses for each of the three areas below, and then upload your work by the deadline using the dropbox in Module 11.
Step 1:Explanation
Write a one-paragraph explanation. (This is not an introductory paragraph for the paper.) This should be an explanation of your focused topic and what you hope to prove to your reader through your analysis.
Step 2:Working Thesis
Really think about what you wrote in the explanation and pull it together by creating a working thesis. You will likely continue to revise and edit this thesis. Remember: A THESIS should include the focused topic plus your assertion about the significance of that topic. It should be argumentative in nature, since it is an opinion that you will prove through a close analysis of the details of the text.
Step 3: Tentative Outline
Now create a tentative outline for your working thesis. In other words, how will you break up your body paragraphs to prove or support the thesis?
Assignment:
APPROACH #2:
Another approach would be to expand on an idea addressed briefly in one of your discussion posts. Remember, you'll need to create a focused thesis statement. The prompts below can be used to create an assertion that you could then prove in your body paragraphs through a close analysis of the primary source (the work we studied) and through support from your secondary sources (literary criticism).
Edgar Allan Poe - "The Fall of the House of Usher"
Analyze the use of parallels or mirror images in this story. How does this kind of imagery support a thematic idea running throughout the story?
· SOURCES: You must use a minimum of THREE secondary sources. You will cite the work you are analyzing, of course, but it is a primary source. Therefore, you will have a minimum of FOUR sources listed on your Works Cited page. At least ONE of your secondary sources must be an article from a scholarly journal accessed via an LSCS library database. You must not use Cliffs Notes or Bloom's Notes or the like, basic dictionaries or encyclopedias, or any plot summaries. You should select reputable sources of literary criticism that help you prove your thesis. If, in addition to these minimum source requirements, you would like to briefly cite a source such as The Bible or a specialized dictionary - that is fine. If in doubt about the quality of a source, ask me or a reference librarian. An essay that does not meet the minimum source requirements will earn an automatic F.
· LENGTH: The essay must be 3-4 textual pages (not including the Works Cited page). The essay must follow MLA manuscript form guidelines stated in the 7th edition of the MLA Handbook. The text of the essay must be 3 full textual pages, meaning it will reach the bottom, one-inch margin on the third page of a correctly formatted Word document. An essay that does not meet the minimum length requirements will earn an automatic F. Plea ...
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An Annotated Bibliography which includes an APA formatted listing of articles to be used for the paper with an accompanying brief description of what each covers (to be written in the student’s own words—copying or paraphrasing the article abstract is not permitted) is due by the end of Week 3 of the course . The annotated bibliography worth 60 possible points and is part of the total Literature Review Paper points possible.
Below are a few notes on the construction of the annotated bibliography an assignment due at the end of this week and a key part of preparing for the writing of your literature review. The annotated bibliography assignment must be uploaded as an MSWord document attachment in the Assignments area.
You may not have ever had to construct an annotated bibliography before. It requires you to read and very briefly and succinctly summarize each article you plan to use for a literature review. It is like a micro-version of an article summary that only contains the bare essentials so that you can go back to it later while writing your paper and use the article micro-summaries in the bibliography to construct a layout, a road map of sorts, for your paper to determine the order and flow of the articles you collected for the paper and, thus, does not include a lot of details or an intro or conclusion. Bibliography entries each should be at maximum two brief paragraphs and ideally should be just one. Although you may elect to make longer personal notes about each article and keep them for your own use in the paper’s construction, think of yourself as Joe Friday on that old TV show Dragnet as you construct your annotated bibliography. Mr. Friday was a fictional police detective famous for saying, “I need the facts, ma’am (or sir), just the facts,” when he interviewed people of interest to his case. That’s what you will be writing for each annotated bibliography article summary, a detective in search of the facts and just the fewest facts necessary to capture the essence of the article.
An annotated bibliography is like an extension of an APA style “References” list of published sources used, like one would find at the end of any college paper only with the addition of a very brief summary paragraph (usually around 150 words) underneath each source listed. These summaries should include not just a synopsis of what you read in the article but also a statement or two about one article’s connection to another/others in relation to the larger paper. Summaries in the annotated bibliography may look very similar to an abstract that you have seen in a published article but the two serve different purposes. An author abstract tells readers what to expect when reading the article and isn’t in your words. In writing the annotated bibliography you will paraphrase (summarize in your own words as you have been required to do for other assignment in the course) the gists of several articles so you can refer to them once completed and get an idea h.
1. A N N O TA TED
B I BL I O G R A P H Y
Peer-review: Thurs., Sept. 27
Final Draft due: Tues., Oct. 2nd
Value: 20% of final grade
WHAT IS IT?
An annotated bibliography is a list of sources for your research project. Other Requirements:
It’s purpose is to give you a bird’s-eye view of who said what on your
-Arrange the bib
topic, and to keep your sources organized so that you can better
alphabetically, beginning
understand the academic conversation that you will be entering through each entry with a citation
your research. It contains: (just like it would appear on
a Works Cited page).
--A focusing introduction to the bibliography that discusses the
purpose of the bib, ties your sources together, and describes -Your entries should be
your bib’s usefulness to your topic. double-spaced, but do not
put an extra pace between
--A short descriptive and evaluative summary
entries.
(annotation) of each source on the list.
-Use hanging indent after
the first line of citation (See
How to write your entries: example below)
1) Start with a citation in APA or MLA format (or whatever format is common
to your discipline) **See samples on from
class, and think about the
2) Next, write one paragraph describing the type of source you are annotating, connections between your
the topic of the piece, and the qualifications of the author. Use the steps for sources**
writing a rhetorical precis (samples from class).
3) In your next paragraph, discuss how the claims made by the author(s) in this
article are related to at least one other article in your bibliography. What’s
the connection between the sources? This will help you start grouping your
paragraphs together. Include at least one quote from each article in your
discussion.
*You should have no less than ten annotations in your bibliography*
2. A N EX A M P LE:
Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. New York: Anchor Books, 1995. Print.
Anne Lamott, a professional writer, in her 1995 work, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing
and Life, asserts that students argue mostly with their own inner critic when writing a paper. She supports this
assertion through a variety of anecdotes, in which she uses humor to display students’ insecurities with their
own writing abilities. Her purpose was to show that students should be more confident when writing, because
they are often their own tough critics. Her intended audience includes writing students and teachers, and she
targets this audience by using anecdotes from both the student and the teacher perspectives on writing.
Lamott’s book is relevant to my topic because she focuses on the students’ writing processes as
determinants of their confidence with writing. Stating, “Students’ lack of confidence with writing often limits
their abilities,” meaning that students limit their writing potential when they doubt themselves, Lamott argues
that writing teachers should work to increase their students’ confidence with writing (89). This article relates to
the claims made by Swales, but he references the discourse communities in which students write, while
Lammott speaks more directly about individual students and their writing processes. This article can also be
related to Grant-Davie, since he discusses rhetorical situations and their influence on how students might target
audiences through their writing.