In this assignment you will present the detailed results of your research so far. An annotated bibliography is a streamlined way to sort and evaluate the information you have gathered, to identify the details you can use to support your ideas, to articulate your process, and to demonstrate to both yourself and your audience where your own claim about the topic – your own voice – might fit within the current academic conversation.
Your evaluative annotated bibliography will begin with an introductory paragraph which summarizes your research question (How do humans identify with mermaids, what reflections are offered by the mermaids?) and the path your research process has taken toward an answer. Even though you will put this introductory paragraph at the top of your bibliography, you may want to write it after you’ve compiled the annotations of your sources, so that you can discover in them how to summarize what you’ve been doing.
Sources in your annotated bibliography should include traditional and contemporary texts; corroborative, descriptive, and analytical materials; and should represent a range of views and information. Specifically, your list of at least 10 sources must include:
at least one article from a credible newspaper/news magazine
at least one visual text (including films, photos, maps, charts, graphs, paintings, etc.)
at least four articles from academic journals (which are not book or film reviews)
at least two books (essay collections count)
at most two reference sources
To be clear, I am not asking for the exact numbers of each item as listed above. Some of these source criteria may overlap. For instance, you may find a book full of cool images regarding your topic — that will cover a book requirement and a visual text requirement in a single source. The same thing could happen if you find a newspaper article that includes a photo, or a book that is a collection of academic articles. You may have no reference sources on your list at this point — terrific. You may have more than 10 sources in all to talk about at this point — terrific. “At most” and “at least” mean just that. The goal is to represent a depth and breadth of sources.
Put your complete bibliography in alphabetical order; do not separate the entries by genre or type of source. Keep font and spacing consistent. Include complete bibliographic information — in MLA style — plus an annotation, for each entry.
Annotations are brief explanations and, in this case, evaluations of the source material that serve as a guide both for your reader and for your own synthesis. You should write a one-paragraph annotation for each entry on your list; each one should be descriptive, consistent, and clear.
Annotation Process
Keep a citation guide in front of you to ensure correct MLA format.
Write a complete and accurate bibliographic entry for each of your sources. Do not annotate them yet, just get all the author, title, and publishing information recorded and arranged.
Now go back and annotate. For each source:
Paraphrase the central idea or argument and summarize how this idea is introduced/explained/supported. Be objective first.
Then indicate any statistics, studies, terminology, theories, and any biases, assumptions or faulty logic that make this source favorable or not in general.
Finish by evaluating exactly how this source is useful, or not, in answering your specific research question. Be subjective and detailed after providing a neutral overview.
This assignment will be assessed according to:
Accuracy of citations (step 1 & 2—adherence to MLA standards, proofreading!)
Thoroughness and clarity of annotations (if you have more than 2 entries on a double- spaced page, your annotations are not detailed enough; if a single annotation takes more than a double-spaced page, it is not succinct enough).
Depth/breadth of research (not all entries are from a similar source, genre or angle; entries show evidence of following chains of research).
Academic voice and critical distance (edit the final draft for virtually no grammatical, punctuation, or usage errors, and avoid using “I” in this genre of writing)
*I attached you the list of sources I found
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