The Goal of this assignment is to prepare you to maximize your time with the librarian and with the computers by having solid research questions and a clear understanding of the assignment you are about to undertake.

The Objectives:  

1- Revise your research questions or topics based on the feedback you receive from me.

2- Familiarize yourself with the annotated bibliography assignments (which includes understanding what an an annotated bibliography is).

3- Practice generating an annotated bibliography for different audiences.

Assignment Directions:

Part 1:

Part 1 is fairly straight forward.  I should give you some feedback by the end of the week (10/14/16).  Address my feedback either by email or updating your post or both depending on what I specify in my feedback.   Due:  Monday, October 17th at 8:00 am.

Part 2: 

1. Read (YES AGAIN) the assignment description for the annotated bibliography
2. Read the two handouts on Annotated Bibliographies (listed  on the “tool box page”)
3. As a group identify and read a popular or news media source related to one of your narrowed themes and research questions.
4. Generate an annotated bibliography for this source.
   • Your bibliographic entry should be formatted according to MLA guidelines.
   • Your annotation should be a 3-5 sentence paragraph.
   • You annotation should meet the guidelines for annotations in the final project.
   • Note: While you are not having to pick a scholarly source here, your source should still be a reputable source.  Meaning it should not be not be a random person’s blog or a gossip column with no sources.  You should also avoid straight anonymously authored reference sites like Wikipedia or Dictionary.Com.
5. As a group convert the above annotation into a form that might be suitable for a social media outlet of y our choosing.
6. Repeat step four for a different social media outlet.
7. Post all three citations on your project site by Monday, October 17th at 8:00 am.
8. Make sure that a link for your project site has been emailed to me and is available on our class site for others by 10/17/16 at 8 am.