How are you doing on ¡Yo!? Are your sources turning out to be helpful? Have you determined which passages or ideas from the sources you want to include in your first draft? Does your introduction with thesis statement still work to express your ideas or does it need some tweaking? Does the outline you drafted work to support your thesis, now that you actually have some source material to add into the body paragraphs in support of your thesis?
Use the first part of the week to add the final touches to your research. Once you have a collection of 8 to 12 scholarly sources that you think say something on your thesis, put together your annotated bibliography and turn it in. Follow these steps.
- From your collection of 8-12 tentative scholarly sources, select the 4-6 sources you think may be the most useful for your paper.
- Skim through the relevant sections of all 4-6 sources completely and carefully, highlighting or underlining main ideas and passages you may want to refer to in your paper.
- Write short summaries or “annotations” (about 5 to 7 sentences each) of these 4-6 sources.
- Paste each of the 4-6 source annotations into your APA style reference page, right below where each source is listed.
- Do a final edit. Is your APA citation correct and complete throughout the document? (Remember, you can check APA style in your college’s Online Library.) Did you remember to put the listings in alphabetical order, for instance? Are your annotations free of mechanical errors?
Remember your Course Materials section contains some helpful Notes on Quality Research.
Submit your completed assignment to the drop box below. Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates.
Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document. (Mac users, please remember to append the “.doc” extension to the filename.) The name of the file should be your first initial and last name, followed by an underscore and the name of the assignment, and an underscore and the date. An example is shown below:
Jstudent_exampleproblem_101504
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