Academic Sources

Purpose:

While information abounds in the 21st century, finding reliable resources has become exceedingly more difficult. However, never fear, an annotated bibliography is here to help! This assignment will assist you with your research for your upcoming Research Paper. Please take this assignment very seriously. At its successful completion, you should be ready to dig right in and start work on your upcoming research paper.

Directions:

Using a topic from the Research Topic List provided in this module, you will now choose FOUR scholarly sources on your assigned topic that you intend to use in your upcoming Research Paper. Please note if you do not select a topic from the Canvas List of Research Topics you will receive a zero for this assignment. (For more information on scholarly sources and where to find them please refer to the first few pages of this module.) For each of your FOUR sources, you will need to create a citation, which will be followed by a brief descriptive and evaluative paragraph- the annotation. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited. PLEASE NOTE: If you select a topic that is not on the Research Topic List provided in Canvas you will receive a zero on this assignment.

Format of the Annotated Bibliography:

For each of your FOUR sources you will need the following:

Full Citation of the source. All citations must be written in standard MLA style.
After the Work Cited entry, start a TWO paragraph annotation containing a summary and evaluation of the source.
Your first paragraph should provide a brief summary of your source. Basically, you should hit the highlights. You should also address whether the source is scholarly, reliable and does it have any bias?
Your second fully developed paragraph should explain to me how you intended to use this source in your upcoming biography paper. In other words, how does this source contribute to the research for your upcoming paper. (For more information on the Biography Paper please refer to the directions provided for Historical Research Assignment Part III.)
*** Remember EACH source should have TWO paragraphs. At the completion of your assignment, you should, therefore, have EIGHT paragraphs total.