11/20 Annotated bibliography, first draft

Due 11-20-17: Have at least five (5) sources at minimum for your draft annotated bibliography. Annotate at least two (2). Write 75-100 words minimum about your source. Use Purdue OWL if you need guidance. Briefly summarize the main idea of each source and provide a brief analysis of how the source relates to your topic and to other sources in your bibliography. Add at least 2-3 keywords or phrases for each annotation. Put the results together into one document. Use MLA style. Use EasyBib to help format citations.

  • List sources in alphabetical order
  • Write in formal academic style (avoid first person “I” statements)
  • Avoid excessive quotations; instead summarize ideas in your own words

Start to pick from the required types of sources for your final annotated bibliography. For your final annotated bibliography, you are required to have at least 8 sources and you will annotate at minimum five. You are required to include the following TYPES of sources unless you get permission from us because your topic doesn’t apply.

  • 1 NYC or U.S. government data source
  • 1 historic or contemporary newspaper source [Consider the NY Times, Historic or historic Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • 1 book or book chapter
  • 1 archival image [for your final presentation, you will need to find a current image to compare to]
  • 1 archival map [for your final presentation, you will need to find a current map to compare to]
  • 1 published journal or magazine article. You can use higher quality blogs like Brownstoner but we’d prefer a published article(extra points for archival or other visual content like maps or photos or ephemera when appropriate)

content examples:

  • archival object or image, e.g. postcard
  • archival newspaper article
  • archival map
  • archival letter or manuscript
  • current newspaper article
  • current scholarly source
  • current book
  • current map
  • current website with statistics or data, e.g. NYC Dept. of City Planning Zoning data

30 thoughts on “11/20 Annotated bibliography, first draft”

    • Although the Freeman article isn’t unusable, it is written by an undergraduate (?) student. You generally want to avoid that!

      Also be super conscious about the dates of your articles. Those written close to 2002 will have a very different tone from more recent ones.

      Be careful with citation details: I couldn’t find “Big Lights” bec. the title is “Bright Lights … ” USE THE CITATION SUPPLIED BY EBSCO so these kinds of errors don’t happen, OK?

      Overall, quality research.

    • Interesting use of the archival object. The only problem is that although your analysis is interesting, the object itself may not create that causal link between the highways, the re-inauguration, and the neighborhood.

      If you plan to use demographic data like https://www.point2homes.com, you’d do better in two ways: use Census Data and try to find the specific data for that neighborhood by Census tract. If you compare your neighborhood to Manhattan overall, that would be very valuable!

      None of your sources seem to be a product of using our library so I’d urge you to try using it for a better grade as well as more detailed citations as a result. You want to try to provide a creator or publisher whenever possible.

      I love Wikipedia but use it as a starting place to find other sources. This Wikipedia article is so-so. If you look at TALK, you’ll see it is considered START CLASS on the quality scale which means it is not considered robust or well developed.

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