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JRP: Social Justice: Annotated Bibliography

This LibGuide contains resources to support the JRP. You'll find links to quality Open Web sources, databases, books (print and electronic) and tips for MLA.

The Annotated Bibliography Assignment

Annotated Bibliography Requirements:

I. Three Entries: Each entry has two parts.

Part One: Properly formatted MLA Citation

Hint: Pay attention to proper capitalization, quotation marks, italics and hanging indents. Be sure to include all the required bibliographic information (author, publisher, date, location)

Part Two: An annotation of your source which includes:

  • Summary:  In 1-2 sentences give main ideas, key arguments, conclusions

  • Evaluation: In 2-3 sentences evaluate your source. Discuss Who (expert, authority in science), What (content types: studies, graphs, links, academic level: high school and above, purpose: science education), When (currency; publication date)

  • Relevance: In 1 sentence show how this source was useful for the JRP. How was source used for JRP? In what other areas of the JRP could the source be used?

  • Information Type and Location/Container Identification: At the end of each annotation, indicate the information type of the source and where you found it. For example: newspaper/open web, scholarly journal/database (ProQuest), book/open web (Google Books), book/database (Ebook Central), viewpoint article/database (Opposing Viewpoints)

A note about sources:

  • One source must be from an O’Dowd Subscription Database: ABC-CLIO, CQ Researcher, Gale, ProQuest, Ebook Central
  • One source must be an academic journal article.
  • All three sources must be O'Dowd worthy.
  • Location = Container. The main containers for a source are O'Dowd Databases or Print (book, newspaper or magazine from the Library) OR the Open Web (NoodleTools calls this "website')

 

Revision Guidelines

Your teacher will give you the due date for revisions. No late work will be accepted. 

 

You must follow the instructions for revisions:

1. All annotated bibliographies must be exported directly from NoodleTools into a Google Doc. Follow the instructions for exporting on the LibGuide>Annotated Bibliography>NoodleTools or stop by the library. We will not read your revision unless it is exported directly from NoodleTools.

2. You will highlight every revision you make to your annotated bibliography. You do not need to color code your annotated bibliography. All revisions, however, must be highlighted.

3. Submit your revision to the original Annotated Bibliography assignment in Schoology. When you submit your revision, you will see the "Submissions Activity" section to the right. In this section, you must give a list of the revisions you made to your annotated bibliography. How did you improve your work?

4. Pro-Tips. You need to show that you read and understood the source. What specifically did you learn? Your evaluation section should be the longest part of your annotated bibliography. Analyze the content. Which experts were interviewed or cited? What is the source for any statistics, facts, laws, policies mentioned in your article. Be specific. You need to prove that these sources are top notch. Don't tell me they came from a journal - tell me what makes that particular journal (newspaper, webpage, etc.) reputable. 

 

5. No late work will be accepted. In order to qualify for revisions your annotated bibliography must:

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    Be exported in its entirety directly from NoodleTools

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    Contain highlighted revisions

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    Include a list of revisions in the “Submissions Activity” column to the right

6. If you have any questions about the revision process, see the librarians before the revision due date.