Prepare a Annotated Bibliography
This is a 4 parts assignment
PART 1) prepare a posting about the problem you have selected for your Annotated Bibliography & Final Research Paper assignments.
Remember: you get to choose the topic of this essay. You can write about any problem in the world that you would like to solve.
In a posting of at least 300 words, please complete the following:
Clearly describe the problem in some details. What is it? Why is it a problem? What are the causes of this problem?
Explain in a paragraph why you chose this problem? Why are you interested?
Explain to your audience (your peers and the instructor) specific reasons why they should be concerned about this problem. Why should we care?
Include at least THREE sources from your research to back up and illustrate your ideas, using MLA format (signal phrases and/or parenthetical in-text citations)
use correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
PART 2) Post two of your Annotated Bibliography entries. Each entry should include the Type of Source, an MLA citation, a 3-5 sentence summary, and a 1-2 sentence explanation of how you will use this source in your Final Research Paper (labeled Contribution).
Re read the Annotated Bibliography assignment (IN PART 4), paying particular attention to the model entry at the bottom of the assignment.
Post your TWO well-developed Annotated Bibliography citations IN THE SAME POSTING.
use correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
PART 3) Write a posting about the best solution you have chosen to solve the problem from your Final Research Paper.
Remember: you get to choose the topic of this essay. You need to find the best possible solution to the problem you solved.
In a posting of at least 300 words, please complete the following:
Clearly describe the solution in some details. What is it? How will it work?
Explain how and why this solution is the most effective.
Explain to your audience (your peers and the instructor) how they will benefit from this solution.
Include at least THREE sources from your research to back up and illustrate your ideas, using MLA format (signal phrases and/or parenthetical in-text citations)
Superior postings might explain how your best solution embodies the teachings of the Public Goods Game and the Ultimatum Game.
Use correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
PART 4) Write an Annotated Bibliography
An annotated bibliography is a list of sources that includes bibliographic citations (MLA-formatted citations like you would find on a Works Cited page), summaries, and additional information for each source. You will use these sources that you find while creating your annotated bibliography to support the argument you will make in your final research paper.
Your paper for the final research paper is to write a persuasive essay that first identifies a specific problem of your choice, identifies two to three solutions to the problem, and evaluates and defends the effectiveness of the solutions that you presented. In addition, you should include refutation to address objections to your solutions as well as to respond to and refute alternative solutions. So you should search for sources that help you to prove a problem exists, provide support for your solutions, assists you in critiquing the lesser solutions, and help you to refute objections to your approach.
The assignment is to annotate eight sources. Two of these sources should be a book (print or ebook) or reference text (e.g. an encyclopedia)—you may not use Wikipedia or About.com as a source for this assignment. In addition, four of these sources should be periodicals (e.g. journals, magazines, or newspapers), which are available in print, online, or from databases—two of these four periodical sources should be from peer-reviewed (scholarly) journals. Finally, at least two of your sources should be electronic (e.g. online journals, databases, or websites). The remaining sources can be of any type you like. Note: I encourage you to find more than eight sources for use in your final research paper; however, for the Annotated Bibliography assignment, please annotate only eight.
Examine the elephant from numerous perspectives. Be sure to find sources that reflect a variety of positions regarding your topic. You should find three or more sources that disagree with the positions taken in your other sources. You will then be asked to analyze and evaluate the solutions, so you will need sources that help you to critique the viability and effectiveness of each solution.
For each source, first include the “Type of Source” (worth 1.5 points). In other words, use the title of the model that you used from the “Directory to MLA Works Cited Models” on pages 140-41 in A Pocket Style Manual. Then, provide the Modern Language Association citation using the models from that directory (worth 4 points). Next, write a three- to five-sentence summary of your source (worth 5 points). The summary should establish why the source is credible, identify what the position of the text is, and describe briefly the reasoning and support provided. Finally, for the “Contribution,” Write 1-2 sentences suggesting how you might use this source in your essay—be specific (worth 2 points). See the accompanying handout below for a visual example of how each of your citations should look.
Remember to format the MLA citation properly. The citation should be double spaced. The second and subsequent lines of each entry should use a hanging indent of five spaces. Imitate the formatting in the model below.
Pay attention to how I wrote the summary. First, be sure to use a signal phrase to identify the source of the information and to establish the credibility of the source. If the source does not have an author, be sure to establish the credibility of the institution responsible for the information. For example, if I was citing an editorial by the New York Times that did not include a specific author’s name, I could still emphasize how and why the newspaper itself is credible. After you introduce the source and establish credibility, be sure to acknowledge the text’s thesis. If the source is informative rather than argumentative (and therefore, does not have a thesis), you should still identify the main focus of the text. Finally, be sure to reference the key reasons and main types of support used in the text.
In the Contribution section, be very specific about how you plan on using the source in your Final Research Paper. Do not simply state that you can use the source to back up your argument. This is obvious. Feel free to imitate the sentence structure from the model if it helps you to be precise about how you will use the source.
Remember: you should be summarizing the source in your own words! If you cut and paste exact language into the summary, you will be guilty of plagiarizing, and you will receive a zero on that entry. It is acceptable to use very brief quotations in your summary if necessary, but any exact language must be placed in quotations. See the model summary for an example.
Note: you do not necessarily have to read the entire source in order to annotate it. Read synoptically. In other words, skim the source. Read the title, look at the table of contents, and read the preface or introductory chapter as well as the initial paragraphs of each chapter and the conclusion. For shorter sources, it may be simpler just to read the entire text.
Organize your sources alphabetically—in the same order that you would present them on your Works Cited page.
Annotated Bibliography Sample Entry
Type of Source: 15. Article in a magazine c. Web, page 151 (Use the title of the model you used from the Directory to MLA Works Cited Models in A Pocket Style Manual, pages 140-41.)
Alexander, Michelle. “Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote.” The
Nation, 10 February 2016, www.thenation.com/article/hillary-clinton-does-not-
deserve-black-peoples-votes/.
Summary: Michelle Alexander, former director of the ACLU’s Racial Justice Project, professor of law at the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University, and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, argues that despite the loyalty of African-American voters to both Bill and Hillary Clinton, their policies have had seriously negative consequences for black people. She supports her position with historical analyses of Bill Clinton’s policies, which she claims were actively supported by Hillary, including examinations of the “three-strikes law” and the dismantling of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). Alexander concludes her essay by acknowledging that both Bill and Hillary have expressed remorse about the effects of these earlier policies while emphasizing that Hillary’s recent political proposals do not go far enough towards “rebuild[ing] the communities decimated” by the legislation the Clintons promoted in the past.
Contribution: I can use Alexander’s criticism of Hillary Clinton’s policies in my refutation to argue that simply reversing discriminatory criminal justice and legal policies, such as the “Three Strikes Law,” will not be sufficient to improve economic conditions for people of color.
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