Annotated Bibliography (at least 9 sources)Requirements: Three (3) primary sources (*no more than 3): Frankenstein, Darwin, Turner, Freud, Mother Camp, and/or Tracks
3-5 class sources (secondary): Moran, Frankenbook essays, Darwin Correspondence Project articles, Roughgarden, Krupat, Sharp, Iggers, Hammersley and Atkinson, Rubin, Cajete, First Peoples/Calloway, and/or Rifkin).
3-5 scholarly articles: These must be peer-reviewed, scholarly journal articles or academic books found through the University library databases.
Look for humanities-based articles that discuss topics related to your own paper topic that are about either your primary sources or the historical period and location of your primary sources. Do not use articles from the natural or social sciences, articles that are about the present or a time period different than the time period of your primary sources, that are about a different location than your primary sources (Europe, Britain, America).
You may use sources from previous Annotated Bibliographies so long as they fit the above requirements and are still helpful to your analysis. However, as you revise Paper 3, you may find you need to find different scholarly articles.
Include an MLA-formatted citation and an annotation that briefly summarizes your source (its argument) and explains how you will use it in Paper 3 .
Topic: The representation of gender. How do the primary sources represent gendered behavior and aptitudes? What are seen as the “essential” characteristics of men and women? What aspects of gender and gender roles are represented as learned or as performative?
How does gender interact and overlap with other issues such as race, progress, technology, and/or sexuality? Annotation
Summary: In 2-3 sentences, provide an overview of your source. This will both help you to remember what your source was about when it comes time to write A3, but it will also serve as a good exercise: can you summarize the main argument and important points of your source? If your source is a book, you may just need to read the introduction, conclusion, and a relevant chapter (or skim the chapter) in order to write the annotation.
With articles, read the abstract, introduction and thesis, subheadings, and conclusion; you might also read the first and last sentences of body paragraphs.
Connection: In 1-2 sentences, explain why this source is relevant to your research. Be as specific as possible here because it will help you to think about your paper’s argument and whether/how to use the source in question.
After doing this exercise, you may find that a source is not so relevant to your research after all. Or you may discover a relevance you didn’t anticipate. In addition, you may be able to figure out where the source fits into your argument, which will help you organize your sources and see gaps in your research.Sample Entry:Costa Vargas, Joao H. Catching Hell in the City of Angels: Life and Meanings of Blackness in South Central Los Angeles.
University of Minnesota Press, 2006.This book details the experiences of the black community in South Central, Los Angeles, in particular the effects that economic shifts occurring since the 1980s have had on the black working class and poor. It tells this larger story of economic change and the repercussions of that change through ethnography, providing personal accounts of the individuals who live in South Central.
Several of these individual narratives will provide support for my claims about the way that the proposed University Village renovation will raise the cost of living and cause financial hardship for residents of surrounding communities.
Requirements: 2 pages
