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At present, you’ve got the course theme texts (“From Outside, In” and “Nah, We Straight: An Argument Against Code Switching”), and you’ve located at least four more sources on your own; this is a solid foundation for a research essay—an essay you will undertake in the next unit—but to cap off this unit, you will compile those resources into an annotated bibliography.
As a reminder, here are the criteria for the annotated bibliography:
* Adhere to MLA or APA conventions for formatting a bibliography or works cited page
* Provide bibliographic citations for the course theme texts and four additional relevant and timely scholarly sources
* Accompany each citation with detailed annotations that offer insight into the arguments the texts make, the rhetorical conditions surrounding the production of those texts, the relevance of the texts to the student’s inquiry, and questions the text raises
* Your summary should seek to answer all the basics: who wrote it, what is it, when was it written, and where was it published (i.e. a literary journal, a website, a textbook).
* Your analysis should include the big why — if it is a useful source, why is it useful? If it doesn’t provide the information you need, explain why it is not useful to you. Be critical here about who wrote the source material, as well as when and where it was published and whether that affects it’s reliability. Name any challenges using this source would present. For example, using an article about commercial airplane regulations published pre-9/11 would probably be inaccurate and would not help if you happened to be writing a paper about current day regulations in commercial airlines.
* Your entries should be roughly 30-40% summary, and 70-60% analysis — summaries should be as brief as possible while giving all necessary information to understand the analysis.
* Annotated bibliographies (and most academic writing) should be written in third-person! This is easy to slip up on and it is a mistake that even I make, even though I’ve easily between 5-6 of these since starting at HCC. It helps to have someone proofread for these mistakes, as well as MLA 8 formatting mistakes. Pro-tip: Where you want to use “I” or “me” or “my”, refer instead to your paper.
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