Annotated Bibliography

Your annotated bibliography has several purposes:

1. To practice your skills creating a Works Cited/Reference Page in the appropriate research format (in this case MLA).
2. To practice your skills using in-text citations if you choose to directly quote from any of your sources in your annotation
3. To show the instructor that you know how to synthesize data.  That you can find a reliable source and identify the information from the source that will be most useful to you and your group members' purposes.
4. To provide your group members with a master list of sources to choose from that covers as much information as the five of you could find on the time period you are writing about.
5. To help your group members determine which sources will be useful for the narrative they intend to write. 

Your descriptions of the source should give a brief summary of the overall purpose of the source and then point to specific details that you and/or your group members might find useful.  Check the Sample Annotated Bib in the right hand corner for more of an idea of what it should look and sound like.

Get your research done as soon as possible.  The sooner that is out of the way, the sooner you can start on the narrative and the i-Search Paper.  

i-Search Paper (where you should be at this point)

We wrote a very rough draft of the Intro to your i-search paper on Tuesday.  It should be at least a paragraph answering these two questions:what do a know about my time period/event before I research it and what do I want to know, what must I learn in order to accurately tell a story set during this moment.  

The second section of the i-Search paper is a description of your search.  How did you find the information you are going to be putting in your annotated bibliography?  Answers to the following questions can help fulfill this section

1. Where did you find your sources? The web? The library? What search engines did you use?  Did you request help from anyone?
2. How did you keep track of the sources you found? Did you write a list? Copy and paste links into a document? 
3. How did keep track of the useful information in each source? Did you print and highlight articles? Copy and paste?
4. How did you determine what information was useful and what information wasn't?
5. You probably won't use every source you look at? How did you decide which sources to keep and which ones to disregard?
6. How did you and your group exchange information? Did you meet in person? Chat online? How well did you work together?
7. What issues did you struggle with? Did you have a hard time finding the answers to any particular questions?  Were you able to stay organized?  Were you able to stay sane?  

These are the things you will have to think about for the second section of your i-search Paper.  We will talk about the last section once your research is completed and you've started on your narrative.  

Homework

• Annotated Bibliography due Thursday April 23rd