I’m doing a research paper on the poem Harlem by Langston Hughes. Now that you have selected your topic and started researching articles to be used in writing your
paper, it’s time to select and arrange those articles in your Works Cited/Bibliography page for
your essay. For each selected article you plan to use in your paper, create an annotation to accompany its entry. 1. Your bibliography must be completed in MLA format.
2. Place your articles in alphabetical order, and be sure to include the intended audience in
your annotation.
3. Articles must come from Alabama Virtual Library (AVL) or the other acceptable literary
options found in your Library Services cell in Canvas. Wikipedia, SparkNotes, Schmoop,
etc., are not scholarly research and cannot be used in this assignment. Using these will
result in an automatic zero on the assignment.
4. Submit this assignment through Turnitin.com.
Below are the grading criteria for this project.
1. Concise summary of the information (25 points): Briefly state the author’s purpose and
recap the important points of the article.
2. Evaluation of the information’s usefulness (25 points): does this article support/refute your
thesis? How will you use this information?
3. Identification of the intended audience (25 points): For whom was the article written? Is it
beneficial to laymen (those with limited knowledge or expertise in the subject), or is it
intended for those with more knowledge or interest in the topic?
4. Entries in MLA format (15 points): Use the link to Purdue OWL for formatting
information.
5. Mechanics (10 points): Spelling/punctuation/grammar, etc. are IMPORTANT!!! DO NOT
use I or you in this assignment. A couple of things are important to remember about the example above.
1. When you include an entry for the poem you are analyzing in your research paper, you don’t need to do an involved analysis of it. You can say something similar to the following example for that particular
bibliographical entry: This poem is the one that will be analyzed in the research paper.
2. You will have at least 5 entries in your Annotated Bibliography unlike the above example. Those entries
must be alphabetized according to the author’s last name or the article’s title if no author exists.
3. Pay attention to spacing! It’s important.
Find sources for your Research Paper. You are required to have 5 solid sources. You may include your textbook since you will probably be quoting some sections from it, but that is your primary source, the one from which your subject comes. It is not one of your critical/analytical sources, so it serves as a 6th source rather than one of the original five sources required.
Step 2 Get publication information for each of your sources based on the type of information MLA says you need for that specific type of source. For example, is it a journal published once a year, quarterly, weekly, monthly, etc.; a website; or a book? After you have collected the information for each source, arrange it according to MLA requirements. Once you have done that, alphabetize each entry. Check for correct spacing or indenting. If all that looks correct, you should be pretty much complete for format purposes. Now you need to write a paragraph under each entry that fulfills the requirements as stated in the Annotated Bibliography Assignment. AI IS NOT ALLOWED.
