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The research paper assignment for this course contains three parts: the annotated bibliography, the outline, and the research paper. Each of these parts builds upon the one before it—the more you focus at the beginning, the easier your work will be as you go on. As a whole, this assignment is intended to help you practice synthesizing ideas and information from various sources, knowing how and when to paraphrase a source, and knowing how and when to summarize or quote sources. This assignment should also take you through the entire writing process, from brainstorming through organization and drafting to revision and editing. Writing a research paper is not about reporting what other people have to say but is about your ability to purposefully select facts and arguments to create a focused, coherent essay with a clear thesis statement. All of the sections of the paper should be in Times New Roman or Garamond 12 point font.
The Annotated Bibliography: Bring two printed copies to class for peer editing on Monday, November 19th. The peer editing counts as 5 points of the Annotated Bibliography grade. The revised final draft is due to the D2L Dropbox by
A bibliography is simply a list of sources with correct documentation. An annotated bibliography includes a description of the source material. Writers use a consistent format to document their sources, which allows readers to find the original source of information. Documenting your sources serves as proof that you did not simply make information up. If you do not document your sources correctly, then you will not seem like a credible author. Writing an annotated bibliography helps you find sources that you can use in your paper, familiarizes you with those sources, and forces you to document your sources. That way, when you go to write your Works Cited (or Bibliography) at the end of the paper, you will already have the documentation completed.
For this part of the assignment, you need to find 7 relevant sources and create an annotated bibliographic entry for each of them. Use the Academic Search Premier database to help you find relevant articles. REMEMBER TO DOCUMENT SOURCES AS YOU GO SO THAT YOU CAN RETURN TO THEM. You may also use books or articles in books. At least five of your entries must be from scholarly sources. A scholarly source is a book, a work published in an anthology (an article in a book), or an article published in a scholarly journal. Newspaper articles, encyclopedia entries, popular magazine articles, and websites are NOT scholarly sources. Each of your seven entries needs to include proper MLA documentation (see Chapter 33 in Harbrace Essentials). After the MLA documentation, you should include a paragraph describing the source. See pages 267-68 in Harbrace Essentials for an example. Write a paragraph-long summary describing what type of source it is (book, journal, newspaper article) and what important information it contains. Each of the summaries following your citation should be at least 3 sentences long. You annotated bibliography will be graded on how accurately you document each source, if you have alphabetized your entries according to the author’s name (or first word in the entry if there is no author’s name), how well each source fulfills the guidelines for scholarly sources, and how well each source is summarized.
The Outline: Bring two copies to class for peer editing on Monday, November 19th. The peer editing counts as 5 points of the Outline grade. The revised final draft is due to the D2L Dropbox by Wednesday, November 21st at 8:00 a.m.
Because a research paper is typically a longer paper, you need to keep your argument focused over a long period of time. For most writers, this requires an outline. An outline lets you see the claims that you make and the evidence that you use to support those claims more clearly. An outline can alwaysbe changed or rearranged later in the writing process, but it gives you a strong starting point. For youroutline, list your tentative thesis statement at the top of the page. Then, using Roman numerals, listthe most important claims that support that thesis. Remember that these first Roman numerals are themost important points you want to use to convince your reader of your thesis statement. Next, createsubheadings using capital alphabetical letters. Each of these letters is a reason why your Romannumeral claim is true. Break each of these down further into smaller pieces using an Arabic numeral(1, 2, 3) to list each reason why the capital letter is true. It is a good idea to include a brief note onwhere you intend to include a source.
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