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• Project Overview
• Or
• Getting Started

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What is an annotated bibliography?

• To make these guidelines easy to understand, I am
  going to use four simple sections, as follows
• 1) How this project affects your grades on essays
  2, 3, and 4.
• 2) I tell you what an annotated bibliography is.
• 3) I give you an example of an entry.
• 4) I provide a checklist of everything that
  should be included.

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Section 1 Why is this project so important to
essay 2 and essay 3?

• Because all the research you do for this project
  must be used again in essays 2, 3, and 4.
• Whatever topic you research and write about for
  your annotated bibliography is your topic for the
  rest of the semester.
• If you decide to write about a different topic in
  essay 2, 3, or 4, then you must do all the work
  of an entirely new annotated bibliography over
  again on the new topic.
• I really do advise against this.

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Section 2 What is an annotated bibliography?

• It's made up of 10 entries, and each entry has 2
  parts an MLA style citation an annotation.
• Basically, you research 10 scholarly articles,
  all on the same topic, and then you write a
  citation/annotation for each one.

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Section 3 An example of an entry

• First of all, we should define a citation.
• A citation provides the publishing information on
  your scholarly article.
• It says where the article was published, who
  wrote it, and a few other things we'll learn
  about in class. Ill show you an example shortly.

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Now lets define an annotation.

• An annotation is a short summary of the scholarly
  article, and it's also a critique of it.
• Simply put, your annotations do two things
• 1) explain, or summarize, what the article is
  about, and the article's thesis should be
  summarized in your first sentence.
• 2) evaluate why the article is a worthwhile one
  to read.

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You wrote a good annotation if

• anyone who reads your final work understands the
  scholarly article's argument.
• They should also know the problems or solutions,
  if any, that the article proposes.
• Finally, they will know whether the article is of
  a superior nature, or if they should go look for
  a different scholarly article on this subject.

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Here is an example of an entry(Make the font
BIGGER by right clicking your mouse and choosing
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• Miller, Brian, Gerado Ceballos, and Richard
  Reading. The Prairie Dog and Biotic Diversity.
  Conservation Biology 8.3
• (1994) 677-81. Since the turn
  of this century, prairie dog populations have
  declined up to 98 throughout North
• America, largely due to prairie
  dog eradication programs. The prairie dog is a
  keystone species that plays an important
• role in maintaining the biotic
  integrity of the western grasslands from
  southern Canada to northern Mexico. Prairie dog
• depopulation has degraded
  diversity on those prairies, and several species
  depending on prairie dogs now have listing
• status under the Endangered
  Species Act. Some form of legal protection for
  prairie dogs is needed. Positive incentives
• for ranchers to watch over the
  interests of both livestock and wildlife will
  enhance the attitude change necessary for
• grassland conservation. These
  incentives hinge critically on an end to U.S.
  government subsidies for prairie dog
• eradication programs. The
  subsidies are financially and ecologically
  unsound, and contribute to the prevailing
• misconceptions about the role of
  the prairie dog on the grasslands.

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Your Checklist

• ____ I am turning in 10 entries
• ____ I don't start a new page for each entry.
• ____ None of my entries are from our
  textbooks, readings on reserve, or any other
  readings associated with this course.
• ____ One of my entries is from an
  appropriate website.

• ____ I got seven of my entries from journals
  from the OSU library shelves or stacks.
• ____ I got two of my entries from books from
  the OSU library shelves.
• ____ No more than eight of the articles I am
  handing in were printed off a computer.

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Your Checklist (continued)

• ____ I am turning in copies of all ten of my
  articles, which means the entire article, with my
  annotated bibliography
• ____ None of my entries are from magazines or
  from publications with advertisements in them.
• ____ For the two books I used to write
  entries about, I am turning in a minimum of 10
  copied pages from each book.

• ____ I individually stapled each article,
  rather than handing in loose pages or one big
  mass of papers.
• ____ I wrote my name on the front page of
  each individual article.
• ____ I stapled the annotated bibliography
  together.

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Your Checklist (continued)

• ____ Each annotation I wrote is a minimum of
  100 words to a maximum of 150 words, which
  doesn't include the words in the citation.
• ____ I realize that for each copy of an
  article that I don't hand in my grade on this
  project will be reduced by 10, even if I have
  written an entry for that article.

• ____ I realize that for each entry that I
  don't write, or if it is incomplete, my grade on
  this project will be reduced by 10.
• ____ I realize that once I turn in this
  project, no matter whether I turn it in on time
  or late, additional turn-ins of articles won't be
  accepted.
• ____ I am using MLA style in accordance with
  class lectures, overhead presentations, etc.

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Quick Recap

• I recommend printing out these guideline and the
  checklist from the starting page of my website.
• Go to the secondary course materials drop down
  menu and choose the annotated bibliography
  guidelines.
• Thats all for now, but view the next power point
  presentation on the list too.
• Use your browsers back button to end the show,
  or right click your mouse and choose end show