Homework For Weds.

For Weds. I want you guys to put together an Annotated Bibliography. This is one of the most useful steps you can take while putting together a research paper (or so former students have told me.)

Here's what to do:

- Take five sources you're (probably) going to use for your paper- you should already have these.
- Do proper MLA citations for all five (www.easybib.com is a good source for this)
- For each entry, summarize the main points/thesis of the article (which you should already have more or less done) and pull out 2-3 quotes you think you might want to incorporate in your final paper- include page number.

This will help familiarize you with your sources so that when you go to write your paper, you'll already know what your sources say and where you can find a lot of the information you'll need. I recommend printing hard copies of the sources and reading them with a highlighter or underlining key passages with a pen.

A good example of what I'm looking for is on page 181 of the Student Guide. Citation first, information about the article under, next citation and so on. Be sure to bring a hard copy to class, and post to the blog.

* If you have more than five sources, you DO NOT need to include them here, but if you feel ambitious enough to do so, it will help you out later as you'll have your Works Cited all but done, and quotes right on hand without having to search the article all over again for that thing you sorta remembered reading that would be useful.