Creating an annotated bibliography will help you when you begin writing your research paper. It will force you to evaluate your sources before you start writing and help you identify key points from each source. In addition, it will help you separate the sources ideas from your own, which will prevent unintentional plagiarism.
Creating an annotated bibliography will help you when you begin writing your research paper. It will force you to evaluate your sources before you start writing and help you identify key points from each source. In addition, it will help you separate the sources ideas from your own, which will prevent unintentional plagiarism.
The goal of each entry in your annotated bibliography is to summarize and evaluate the source. You will do this in four to seven sentences. One or two of your sentences, preferably at the end, should relate to the reader how you plan on using the source to aid your research narrative, argument, or otherwise. Remember, not every source has to be in line with your argument. In fact, I strongly encourage you to find a source that has an opposing viewpoint.
You are required to write at least four (4) entries (during the regular semester / school year, I make students write a total of 7, but since we are in a shorter compressed summer session, I am only requiring four). Here is an example of one below. Please follow MLA format for this assignment.
Wainwright, Laura. “ ‘Doesn’t That Make You Laugh?’: Modernist Comedy in Jean Rhys’s After LeavingMr. Mackenzie and Good Morning, Midnight.” Journal of International Women’s Studies 10.3 (2009): 48-57. Laura Wainwright challenges the viewpoint that Jean Rhys’s early fiction is melancholy and bleak. Instead, Wainwright argues that Rhys blends comedy and tragedy to undermine “the social and cultural stereotypes of the funny man and the humourless, inadvertently comic woman,” (48). Wainwright uses passages from Good Morning, Midnight to demonstrate Rhys’s blurring technique. Discusses the split narrative voice technique in a key scene with René, showing the performative aspect of the exchange, pushing the idea of the unreality of their interactions. Quotes Helene Cixous’ essay ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’: “Rhys ‘breaks up the “truth” with laughter,’” (51). Wainwright is writing from a feminist critical point of view. We can also trace Wainwright’s feminist critical point of view back to her interpretation of Rhys’s work as challenging the idea of a humorless woman. In addition to a feminist critical point of view, Wainwright explicitly discusses the modernist qualities of Rhys’s work. ProQuest