Annotated Bibliography Assignment - STM01
By the end of the Research Skills section of STM01, you will have gathered at least twelve sources relevant to your thesis topic. You will produce a bibliography in the Turabian format with short annotations.
In the course of your library work for STM01, you will learn
to find and examine at least twelve different sources that pertain to your
thesis proposal exercise. You may use
any source you find during the course of the term for this project AS LONG AS
it is relevant to the topic. The
Annotated Bibliography will consist of a Turabian
style list of these sources. Each entry in the list must be followed by a
paragraph in which you summarize and evaluate the source in question and relate
the source to the topic you selected.
Guidelines
To help you gain experience in finding and using a variety
of sources, the twelve sources you find must fall into specific categories, as
follows:
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least three books,
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least three periodical articles, and
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least three Internet documents (reports, etc.)
The remaining three sources may fall into any
of the above categories, or they may be classified as "other" (i.e.,
film, video, newspaper, personal interview, etc).
What an Annotation Should Include:
An annotation is a brief description of a work such
as an article, chapter of a book, book, Web site, or movie. An annotation
attempts to give enough information to make a decision as to whether or not to
read the complete work.
·
Complete bibliographic information.
·
Some or all of the following:
o Information
to explain the authority and/or qualifications of the author. For example: Dr.
William Smith, a history professor at
o Scope and
main purpose of the work.
o Any biases
that you detect.
o Intended
audience and level of reading difficulty.
o The relationship,
if any, to other works in the area of study.
o Relevancy
to your thesis statement (topic).
· The annotation should be about 100 to 200 words.
Sample critical annotation:
In addition to "What an annotation should
include," a critical annotation evaluates the usefulness of the work for a
particular audience or situation. The words that are in bold indicate
what has been added to a descriptive paragraph about a source to make it a
critical annotation.
London, Herbert. "Five Myths of the
Television Age." Television Quarterly 10 (1) Spring 1982: 81-89.
Herbert
London, the Dean of Journalism at