Annotated Bibliography



Your assignment is to research a work we read this year and put together an annotated bibliography on the work and author.Your bibliography must have four or more secondary sources Reading guides (SparkNotes, Schmoop, etc.), do not count as one of your sources. If you consult one, however, you still have to write an entry for it.You need to have at least one source looking up something outside of the book- historical allusion, reference, philosophy, psychology, etc. -- as opposed to sites or articles on the work itself.AND at least two sources need to be from a scholarly journal such as you would find on NCWiseOwl (the password is wiseowl19). Summaries (such as Masterplots) or book reviews do not count as scholarly journals. Your scholarly journals can be on things besides the text itself, such as history or psychology.How to Write an Annotated BibliographyThe annotated bibliography should have each of your resources listed as they would appear in a works cited (alphabetical by author, etc.) Each citation is then followed by a 1-3 paragraph summary or paraphrase of the useful parts of that article.Basically, you’re going to pursue a line of inquiry as if you are going to write a research paper on your topic. Then summarize the information from each source that could be used to support your research question or thesis. Keep in mind the difference between purposeful summary and generic summary. Include quotes and data that might be important in your paper and what page you found those on. Still unclear? Here it is in bullet format:Read and take notes on your sources. Focus on those ideas which pertain to your individual topic. Be sure to use MLA format! If you aren’t sure how to do this, use Purdue Owl or Grimsley’s style guide. Remember to put quotation marks around quotes and cite the page number.Write a 1-3 paragraph purposeful summary or paraphrase and state how you would use this source in a paper. In other words, rather than summarizing the entire source, summarize the parts pertinent to your argument. You may wish to write a separate paragraph evaluating the author’s argument, but be sure it is clear what is from the source and what is from you. First person is OKNote; your own words does not mean that you just switch a few words or combine a few sentences. It means you have digested the information and you are retelling it from your memory and notes. Anything that is not in your own words needs to be properly cited with page number.See next page for examples.Excerpt from an Annotated Bibliography:Burroughs, Todd & Vassell, Olive. “Black Panthers.” 1996. The Afro-American Newspaper Company of Baltimore, Inc. Web. April 30, 2009.The Black Panther party was founded in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton with the goals of encouraging black activism and political involvement and protecting black people from racism. They cited figures such as Mao Tse-Tung and Malcolm X as influences. Despite the peaceful nature of many of their programs, such as food giveaways and health clinics, the Black Panthers were often seen as an anarchist terrorist group and, therefore, faced violence and hostility from traditionally white power structures such as the FBI. Despite strong support throughout the 1960’s and early 70’s, divisions within the party caused its eventual downfall, even after winning elections in Oakland, California. The Black Panthers, however, continue to be a symbol of the fight of individuals against oppression. Ironically, some think that former members such as Mumia Abu-Jamal, who is currently incarcerated, continue to face persecution because of their involvement with the group.Zinn, Howard. Chapter 17: “’Or Does It Explode.’” A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003. 443-467.In the chapter “Or Does It Explode,” Howard Zinn begins with the argument that the black revolt of the 50’s and 60’s was a surprise to many, but really should not have been to anyone paying attention to literature since the Harlem Renaissance. “In a society of complex controls, both crude and refined, secret thoughts can often he found in the arts, and so it was in black society. Perhaps the blues, however pathetic, concealed anger; and the jazz, however joyful, portended rebellion” (443-4). Poets like Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, and Langston Hughes, 30 years before the civil rights movement, wrote about the desire to be a part of and grasp at the American dream and the potential for catastrophe if that desire was not satiated. Another often ignored fact is the popularity and alliance of the communist party with African Americans during this time period.WWII seemed to put the movement on hold, but the subsequent Cold War meant that this issue had one more reason to be addressed. Truman recommended the civil rights section of the Department of Justice be expanded among other things to end racial discrimination, but Truman’s Committee on Civil Rights even admitted the motivation was more economics and America’s international image than a moral reason. Legislation already existed, however, the problem was enforcement, which Truman did nothing more about than his predecessors had (or even some successors). For example, ten years after segregation in schools was outlawed, 75% of southern schools were still segregated (450).Zinn then goes into a survey of the Civil Rights Movement, the dream that exploded in the Langston Hughes poem from which this chapter got its name. The uniting difference seemed to be that the countenance of the black community changed from cringing apology to intention and determination as evidenced in the faces of the lunch counter sit-inners. “The Department of Justice recorded 1412 demonstrations in three months of 1963” (453). As with previous decades, legislation continued, but enforcement did not. In fact, as congress would pass civil rights laws, the FBI would subvert black groups such as the Black Panther Party, for example, on December 4, 1969, the FBI orchestrated “a squad of Chicago police, armed with a submachine gun and shotguns, [ . . . ] They fired at least eighty-two and perhaps two hundred rounds into the apartment, killing twenty-one-year-old Black Panther leader Fred Hampton as he lay in his bed, and another Black Panther, Mark Clark” (459). Purdue OWL has a great overview and some examples: ................
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