What stand can you take, now that you’ve looked at the sources? Will you have a definitional claim? An evaluative claim? A causal claim? A proposal?

Essay 2: Annotated Bibliography
For your second major assignment, you’ll communicate your exploration, research, and reflection as you listen to, evaluate, and record the conversation surrounding an ethical issue or problem relevant to you. This could build from the interests you explored in your first essay, was there something about your chosen website that piqued your curiosity and warrants further exploration?
This could also be an opportunity for you to delve deeper into an issue or question surrounding your chosen field.
This assignment won’t be a formal essay but a document that demonstrates your engagement with the research process. At its completion your assignment will consist of three (3) parts, each of them recording the steps you’ve taken in researching your ethical problem or issue, understanding your sources, and evaluating the direction you’ll take for the final research-supported argumentative essay. This assignment will tell your research story from inquiry to claim.
For guidance in successfully completing this assignment, consult the readings and resources available on Canvas.
The most important thing to understand is that this is not an assignment you can write in one sitting from beginning to end. It’s a construction project that, in many ways, builds from the inside out.
Think of the finished product in terms of the following general outline:
Part I: Exploratory Narrative
The first section of the assignment will be a 1st person narrative that tells the story of your intellectual journey, beginning with your research question. You should use your research question as the title of the document.
The final section will give the reader a sense of where your research stands now, what’s left to be  one, and what conclusions you may have drawn from participating in the conversation surrounding your question. Like the first section of the assignment, 1st person makes sense here.
You can think of your final document as a rhetorical sandwich: an objective 3rd person annotated bibliography between two 1st person narratives. You’ll have a chance to flex your voice and tone muscles with this assignment.
Conclude Part III with your tentative article. What stand can you take, now that you’ve looked at the sources? Will you have a definitional claim? An evaluative claim? A causal claim? A proposal?

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