Assignment Overview: The annotated bibliography assignment is designed to help y
Assignment Overview: The annotated bibliography assignment is designed to help you develop research skills and critically evaluate sources for your upcoming research paper. You will compile a list of credible and relevant sources related to your chosen topic for the research paper. Each entry in your annotated bibliography should include a brief summary, an evaluation of the source’s credibility, and a reflection on its potential usefulness for your research.
Requirements:
Choose a topic related to the theme of the course or a subject of personal interest.
Find a minimum of ten (10) credible and scholarly sources. These can include academic articles, books, or reputable websites.
Write an annotated bibliography entry for each source.
Format:
The annotated bibliography should be in MLA format.
Each entry should include a full citation, a brief summary, an evaluation of credibility, and a reflection on usefulness.
Follow the alphabetical order based on the author’s last name.
Example Entry:
Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. Anchor Books, 1995.
Lamott’s book offers honest advice on the nature of a writing life, complete with its insecurities and failures. Taking a humorous approach to the realities of being a writer, the chapters in Lamott’s book are wry and anecdotal and offer advice on everything from plot development to jealousy, from perfectionism to struggling with one’s own internal critic.
In the process, Lamott includes writing exercises designed to be both productive and fun. Lamott offers sane advice for those struggling with the anxieties of writing, but her main project seems to be offering the reader a reality check regarding writing, publishing, and struggling with one’s own imperfect humanity in the process. Rather than a practical handbook to producing and/or publishing, this text is indispensable because of its honest perspective, its down-to-earth humor, and its encouraging approach.
Chapters in this text could easily be included in the curriculum for a writing class. Several of the chapters in Part 1 address the writing process and would serve to generate discussion on students’ own drafting and revising processes. Some of the writing exercises would also be appropriate for generating classroom writing exercises. Students should find Lamott’s style both engaging and enjoyable.