Annotated Bibliography (8% of course grade, completed during Unit 3/Assignment 3 process)

In route to your research-based argument writing, you’ll be generating an Annotated Bibliography to compile and prepare research to incorporate. Writers generate an annotated bibliography to give themselves one quick-stop location for keeping effective research notes for reference as they write.

You’ll be writing an annotated bibliography for four sources:

• One scholarly book (read smart, not the whole thing)
• One peer-reviewed article
• One credible journalistic source
• One official organizational/government document

Click here for a sample annotated bibliography entry.

Each of the four entries should contain the following:

• A full MLA-style bibliographic entry of the source.
• A set of key terms you have identified as most important from the source.
• A summary of the source’s content.
• A personal response to the material—what you think about it, its potential significance to your project, and what questions you’re left with after reading it.
• A collection of key quotations from the source.
• Borrowed sources: A list of the sources that THEY used (the author of the piece you’ve chosen) to write their work, taken from the essay and the sources it cites. Not ALL of them, just some key ones you might go to if you had more time and needed to make more connections.