Annotated Bibliography Paper

Annotated Bibliography Template

DIRECTIONS: Please download this template to your personal computer. You will need to complete annotations for at least FIVE sources for this work to be considered complete, though you may include more annotations if you wish. These five sources probably do not represent the only five sources you will turn to as your research project progresses, but they will probably form the foundation. This assignment takes some time because it requires you to do initial research and read five of the sources you find.
At least THREE of these sources must be peer-reviewed, scholarly sources. The remaining sources may come from anywhere that seems useful. I encourage you to consider trying to identify primary sources. Refer to Session 2 of the Week 3 Module for more discussion.
In crafting your annotations, you should go ahead and create citations using APA style, which will save you time later on when you will need to create a works cited page for your final paper. As you will learn, many of the research tools you might use have a feature to create the citation, but in most cases you will need to check the citations for accuracy. To learn more about creating citations with APA, refer to Purdue OWL:
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/reference_list_basic_rules.html
Your annotations should include THREE components, contained in a single paragraph, as in the example below. First, you should SUMMARIZE the source by offering a brief description of the document. Second, you should ASSESS the quality of the source. Third, you should offer a REFLECTION OF how this source will be useful to you.
Finally, at the end of the assignment, you will be required to comment on the general state of your research.

Sample Annotation:
Romero, Augustine. “At War with the State in Order to Save the Lives of Our Children: The Battle to Save Ethnic Studies in Arizona.” The Black Scholar 40.4 (2010), 7-15. Print
(Summary) This article takes a strong pro-ethnic studies stance as it relates to the legislation that was passed in Arizona in 2010. The author also describes the utility of these programs and how they have empowered many minority students. (Assessment) Overall, this author presents a lot of compelling information in favor of such programs. This author has a lot of direct experience with ethnic studies that provides a lot of great insight into the nature of these programs and how they actually work. (Reflection) The article was written right after the law was instituted and the author is clearly passionate about these programs, which I think detracts from his credibility. I would use this article because of the first-hand experiences presented.

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State of Research. Having completed this initial round of research, comment on the state of this project. Do you feel confident that you can craft a successful paper? Are there aspects of this topic that will require more research?