Annotated Bibliography Prompt

As a first step in the Research Paper process, you have to be able to find, read, and analyze other articles about your topic. For the Annotated Bibliography, you’ll be proving that you can do precisely that.

For this assignment, you will find and read five (5) articles about your topic. You can choose a chapter in a book, but not the whole book. They can all be on-line articles, or all print articles. You can have ONE (and one only) Wikipedia/About.com/Encyclopedia article. The articles don’t necessarily have to be the articles that you will use in your final paper.

Once you have read the articles, you will format your Bibliography this way:

• Each article starts a new page, so your assignment will be at least five physical pages long.


• Each entry will start with the correctly formatted, APA style, Works Cited entry in bold on the top of the page. Go to dianahacker.com then click on Social Science-->List of Citations for correct formats.


• You will then spend one paragraph summarizing the entire article, in which you will paraphrase the main argument. Make sure this is correctly formatted for a summary/paraphrase, meaning that you indicate in every sentence that these words/ideas are not your own.


• You will then spend one paragraph saying what you think you’ll use from this article in your paper. What intrigued you? What did you find helpful/interesting? What did you agree/disagree with?


• The two paragraphs should be substantial paragraphs, about half a page each, so that you have a full page of text for each entry.

So your Bibliography will be at least 5 separate pieces of paper. On each piece of paper, you will start with a Works Cited entry in bold, then a paragraph paraphrasing argument and summarizing article, then a paragraph analyzing what about article is important to you. Next page, start over again, with Works Cited entry and two paragraphs.

This assignment gives you the opportunity to practice research, reading, analyzing, summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting. The assignment is worth 10% of your final grade.

Due Dates:
Friday, February 27: Post one full Annotated entry to your blog, complete with correct heading and two paragraphs. Title the blog post “Annotated Bibliography Entry.” I will grade it over the weekend.

Friday, March 6: Hand in paper version of full Annotated Bibliography. Post it to TurnItIn.com