Annotated Bibliography Assignment for RR 102.

LIBRARY LESSONS From the Research helpdesk October 2011Annotated Bibliography Assignment for RR 102 is licensed by NJIT under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commerical-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

Research Roadmaps = 10% of your course grade for HUM 102

Activity #1 Roadmap Refresher 5 points

Activity #2 Evaluate Your Sources 20 points

Activity #3 Ask a good question 20 points

Activity #4 Workshop Attendance 5 points

Activity #5 Annotated Bibliography 50 points

Warning- Moodle can crashWork on a word document.

Save your work.Then paste into Moodle.

A complete citation for each work (remember – 2 sources – one must be from the library.)

See http://library.njit.edu/researchhelpdesk/howto/cite.php

SUMMARYa sentence or two summarizing the author’s main point.

Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2003. Print.Ruszkiewicz, John J., Maxine Hairston, and Christy Friend. The Scott Foresman Handbook for Writers. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2007. Print.

Read carefully and re-read what you have identified as the author’s main idea.Write the author’s conclusions, and briefly include the arguments that support them (Booth 101).

Assemble your ideas into a short coherent statement about your source, one detailed enough to stand on its own and make sense several weeks after you examine the material. The summary should be entirely in your own words (Ruszkiewicz 658).

For example The author argues that the causes of divorce are infidelity, abuse, and poverty. His conclusions come from his study of 3000 families in New Hampshire in the 1950’s.

Evaluation

a) a statement about the type of source (e.g., a scholarly research article, an editorial from a professional

magazine, a feature newspaper article, a chapter from a popular book, a U.S. government website).

You may wish to rewatch the Scholarly vs. Popular Periodicals tutorial.

b) short evaluation of the authority of the author to write about the topic, quality of the source, objectivity, etc.For authority - Check the byline, footnotes for author’s affiliation or credentials.Click on the author’s name in the database to find more articles by the author. Google search the author. Find out what University he/she works at. Go check the university website. For objectivity – You must note any strong biases. You may wish to rewatch the Evaluating Tutorials

researchguides.njit.edu

YOUR NOTES: Your own thoughts on why this is relevant for you in the

context of your research paper, and how you will use this source.

Make a connection between the article and your paper.

Do not state “This article is perfect because it’s on my topic.” Give specific examples: My topic is mental health illness in the early 20th century and how that ties in to

Willy Loman's experiences in A Death of a Salesman. I will use this source to compare Donaldson to Loman and gauge how the latter must have been dealing with his condition. This source ties in well into my paper since

I examine how the mentally ill were treated in this time period and how that affected Willy Loman.

Get Help

Databases (search for articles by topic)

Request materials from other libraries

To find if NJIT Library owns a book - go to the Library

home page (library.njit.edu) and Click on Find Books and More

Accessing Library Databases

Use pull down to access frequently accessed databases

Or use Databases A to Z Databases by Subject

Accessing Library Databases

Accessing Library Databases

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