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Annotated Bibliography/Scrapbook Assignment
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Beginning on January 22 you will begin to submit resource articles to me each week for the next 10 weeks. Your first article is due January 26 th . Once you have collected ten sources – and completed the 5-step directions below for each of them, you will create an “ annotated scrapbook” on issues and events related to a topic in your field that occurred during Spring Semester 2007.
These directions apply to the individual sources – you will receive additional instructions about the scrapbook at a later date. Remember to keep all articles in a safe place. You will not want to reproduce them at the end of the semester.
At the end of the 10 weeks, you will meet in small groups for a presentation of the material you researched. You should have all your material with you for your presentation. You may NOT collect all articles from Internet sources
such as EBSCO, you must have print sources as well (yes, that means you may have to go to the library).
Step 1: Find an article of your choice from one of the following sources:
 Des Moines Register
 The Wall Street Journal
 The New York Times
 Professional journals
 Books
 Interviews with experts in your field
 Other publications – pending my prior approval! I MUST approve publications other than those above.
Step 2: Prepare an MLA citation for each resource collected. Be sure to include the author’s name; the title of the article; source of article (publication where article was printed); date published; page number of article; URL address if taken from an on-line publication
This information must be included on the page where you write your summary and analysis paragraphs – examples will be provided.
Step 3: Paste the article – or print article – onto a sheet of white paper. One article per page. Include any visuals, which were included with the article.
Step 4: On a separate sheet of paper, you will word process a 50-75 word
summary of the article. After that, you will also write a brief analysis of the effect of the event/topic of the article. This analysis should be longer than the summary and you MUST quote, briefly, from the article.
Step 5: Articles will be collected each Friday starting January 26 th . I will scan

them, suggest additional discussion to include, and evaluate them for completeness and correctness. I will then return them and you are to keep them safe until needed for the final project. Be sure to look over the information on summarizing available on the class website.
Additional notes:
 Vary the publications from which you collect articles
 Vary the length of the articles – they should not all be very short or very long.
 Articles need not – indeed, should not – all discuss the same issue.
(Although, you may include two articles on the same issue should this issue be major; i.e. hurricane Katrina would have fallen into this category.)
 Keep these articles and your discussion paragraphs safe – I’d suggest a file folder designated just for them.
 Keep a separate list of bibliographic information. This is extremely important – especially for the final project.
 Ask questions as needed.
 Do not hesitate to suggest other publications to me. I’m open to your ideas.
 Periodically, I will ask students to share an article with the class. You will not know of this date in advance so be prepared.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill28.htm