Construct an 8 source, 3 Paragraph Annotated Bibliography, and resource materials found below This bibliography will serve as a research tool for your final essay. Two of your sources need not be scholarly; however, the remaining 6 must be scholarly works (books written by scholars or articles published in peer-reviewed journals).
Each annotation will contain 3 paragraphs, regardless of whether you choose APA, MLA or Chicago Style.
Following the examples exactly. Each annotation will contain all 3 paragaphs: A summary, an evaluation, and an explanation of how the source will be used in your project.
You may choose from any of the citation formats. In order to choose one, you will have to make an appropriate judgement about your subject material. For example, if your paper involves historical research, you might choose to document sources according to the Chicago Style; on the other hand, if your final paper will be incorporating ethnographic or experimental data, you might choose to format according to APA. The formatting you choose here will be the same as for your final essay.
Keep in mind: Each annotation is 3 paragraphs long–this is a total of 24 paragraphs of writing.Sample: 3 Paragraph Annotation (MLA Style)
Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. New York: Anchor Books, 1995. Print.
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.
In the sample annotation above, the writer includes three paragraphs: a summary, an evaluation of the text, and a reflection on its applicability to his/her own research, respectively.
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