WR123 Spring 2006 Michael Dembrow, Instructor
ANNOTATED
BIBLIOGRAPHY ASSIGNMENT
You are now at the point in your
research project where you are assembling and evaluating sources, and soon you
will begin to take notes on them. In
order to help you to combat your tendencies towards procrastination, I am
giving you a deadline for the next phase in the process--producing an annotated
bibliography of the sources you have assembled so far.
Your bibliography should include
approximately 15-20 sources. I will be
looking to see that you have managed to acquire a range of sources: newspapers, magazines, journals, encyclopedia
entries when appropriate, books, essays in anthologies, non-print sources if
possible, WWW, interviews when appropriate.
Remember to get those inter-library loan requests in early!
The bibliography should include
sources that are relevant to YOUR topic, and your annotation should comment on
that relevance. If, for example, your
topic is on the anti-Apartheid movement, and your source is a book-length
history of
Each entry should be 50-100 words
long, not including the bibliographic info.
Along with the bibliographic information, try to include the following
for each entry:
(1)
a brief overview (2-3 sentences) of the source, including its thesis, or main
argument;
(2)
the scope of the source;
(3)
the credibility of the source;
(4)
your evaluation of the source's usefulness;
(5)
any resources included in the source, such as a bibliography.
Remember that annotations, unlike most
academic writing, will frequently not involve complete sentences. For the sake of brevity, sentence fragments
are OK here.
I’ll be putting some examples of past
student work on the website for your reference.
Your annotated bibliography should be
typed and double-spaced. Bring in 8-10
entries on Wednesday, April 26 for a draft workshop.
Final version is due on Wednesday, May
3.