Description
Requirements
Your Annotated Bibliography should use MLA format and consist of citations and annotations for four sources that are timely, useful, credible, and relevant to your chosen primary source. At least 1 of your annotated sources should be a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal article. For each of your four sources, you should include:
The full citation of the source in MLA format (click here to see Purdue Owl’s example of MLA formatting).
Below the citation, include a 2-paragraph annotation of the source.
A descriptive summary paragraph:
Briefly describe the source (where it comes from, who wrote it, what makes it trustworthy).
Use a combination of paraphrasing and direct quotations to clearly summarize the main ideas and key points of the source. Be detailed and specific. For instance, do not simply say that an article is “about personal confidence.” What, specifically, does the article say about personal confidence? Each sentence containing quoted or paraphrased information must include an in-text citation.
An explanatory paragraph:
Explain how you’ll use the source in your research paper. Be specific. Will this support your analytical argument? Complicate it? Disagree with it? Something else? Review page 59 of our textbook, which describes 5 ways that you might use a secondary source.
What do you feel would be the rhetorical impact of using this source in the way you plan to use it? In other words, how will using this source be a benefit to your paper?
Provide at least four (4) different sources, one of which has to be a “scholarly” source (one that would be found in OSU Library’s website—including databases such as Academic Search Complete, LexisNexis, or Google Scholar, as well as WorldCat@OSU).
Here’s a example of how it should look:
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