Annotated+Bibliographies


 * 1. You are to find five different articles about your topic.**
 * 2. Then you must write an annotated bibliography for each article. Each annotated bibliography should be no longer than 200 words. Then you are to type final copy on google docs and share your final typed annotated bibliography copy with me at juliana.nahra@gmail.com**
 * 3. __Annotated Bibliography # 1__ is Due February 3, 2012**
 * 4. __Annotated Bibliography # 2__ is Due February 10, 2012**
 * 5. __Annotated Bibliography # 3__ is Due February 17, 2012**
 * 6. __Annotated Bibliography # 4__ is Due February 24, 2012**
 * 7__. Annotated Bibliography # 5__ is Due March 2, 2012**

[|ProCon.org]  - a great resource to start your project/generate ideas.


 * 8. What is an annotated bibliography? ([|from OWL at Purdue])**

Therefore, an **annotated bibliography** includes a summary and/or evaluation of each of the sources. Depending on your project or the assignment, your annotations may do one or more of the following:

 * ====**Summarize**: Some annotations merely summarize the source. What are the main arguments? What is the point of this book or article? What topics are covered? If someone asked what this article/book is about, what would you say? The length of your annotations will determine how detailed your summary is.For more help, see our handout on [|paraphrasing] sources.====
 * ====**Assess**: After summarizing a source, it may be helpful to evaluate it. Is it a useful source? How does it compare with other sources in your bibliography? Is the information reliable? Is this source biased or objective? What is the goal of this source?For more help, see our handouts on [|evaluating resources].====
 * ====**Reflect**: Once you've summarized and assessed a source, you need to ask how it fits into your research. Was this source helpful to you? How does it help you shape your argument? How can you use this source in your research project? Has it changed how you think about your topic? Your annotated bibliography may include some of these, all of these, or even others.====

**1) Works Cited entry/citation**
====[|Basic citations], [|web source citation], [|periodical citation]====

====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.====