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Timothy Thomas
Professor Blank
ENGL 1133 P44
8 February 2013
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Instructions for Part 1: In the table below, replace the sample material with a working title,
topic description, and working thesis for your own research project. Remember that a working
thesis (like a working title) is tentative and may change considerably as you develop your paper.
Working Title: Achieving Diversity in the Houston Police Department
Topic Description: The Houston Police Department has improved its overall diversity in
recent decades, but its upper ranks are still disproportionately white. This whitedominated command structure is potentially harmful to the department and the city, but
there is no easy solution. My research paper will discuss this problem and propose a
strategy for achieving diversity within the HPD command structure.
Working Thesis: If HPD rewards officers for community-building efforts, minority
officers will have a better chance to rise through the command structure.
Instructions for Part 2: In the tables below, replace the sample material with full MLA citations
and annotations for five sources, at least three of them academic. Your annotations should each
be 100-150 words and accomplish the following:
1) Identify the central argument of the source. If the source is primarily informational, its
argument might be implied rather than explicitly stated.
2) Identify the main type of evidence used to support the argument.
3) Evaluate the quality of the argument by referencing types of reasoning (inductive, deductive,
analogical), the use of concessions and qualifiers, and/or logical fallacies.
Do not plagiarize your annotations from article abstracts or from the source texts themselves.
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SOURCE #1
Andrews, Anne. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. New York: Anchor
Books, 1995. Print.
Andrews’ book offers honest advice on the nature of a writing life, complete with its
insecurities and failures. Taking a humorous approach to the realities of being a writer,
the chapters in Andrews’ book are wry and anecdotal and offer advice on everything
from plot development to jealousy, from perfectionism to struggling with one's own
internal critic. In the process, Andrews includes writing exercises designed to be both
productive and fun.
Andrews offers sane advice for those struggling with the anxieties of writing, but her
main project seems to be offering the reader a reality check regarding writing, publishing,
and struggling with one's own imperfect humanity in the process. Rather than a practical
handbook to producing and/or publishing, this text is indispensable because of its honest
perspective, its down-to-earth humor, and its encouraging approach.
Chapters in this text could easily be included in the curriculum for a writing class.
Several of the chapters in Part 1 address the writing process and would serve to generate
discussion on students' own drafting and revising processes. Some of the writing
exercises would also be appropriate for generating classroom writing exercises. Students
should find Andrews’ style both engaging and enjoyable.
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SOURCE #2
Cohen, Ed. “Stop Reading This Headline and Get Back to Work.” CNET
News.com. CNET Networks, 11 July 2005. Web. 17 Feb. 2006.
The author examines the results of a study of ten thousand employees conducted by
America Online and Salary.com, which found that the Internet was the most popular
means of wasting time at work. Cohen notes that the extra time spent surfing the
Internet is costing companies an estimated $759 billion a year but also quotes the senior
vice president at Salary.com and a director at America Online, who argue that employee
Internet use actually increases productivity and creativity in the workplace. Cohen
suggests that the increase in personal Internet use at work might result from a longer
average workday and that use of the Internet has made employees more efficient, giving
them more free time to waste.
SOURCE #3
Desai, Jay P. “Cyber-Working or Cyber-Shirking? A First Principles Examination of
Electronic Privacy in the Workplace.” Florida Law Review 54.2 (2002): 289-332.
Print.
This extensive, balanced article examines the legal issues involved in Internet
monitoring and employee privacy. Desai establishes that US written law and common
law do not guarantee a right to electronic privacy in the workplace. He suggests that
Internet policies should be addressed through a “market-based” contractual approach that
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would benefit both employers and employees. Desai examines employee concerns, such
as a working parent’s desire to check on his or her children while at work, and employer
concerns, such as legal liability for inappropriate employee Internet use. He concludes
that a company should develop an Internet policy, make that policy known to all
employees, and then monitor employees to ensure that the policy is being followed.
SOURCE #4
Tynan, Daniel. “Your Boss Is Watching.” PC World. PC World Communications, 6 Oct.
2004. Web. 17 Sept. 2006.
This conversational article presents ten myths about employee Internet and
computer monitoring and reveals how wrong they are. Although several of the “myths”
are discussed more extensively in my other sources, Tynan presents some new
information. For example, he states that some employer monitor employee Webmail
accounts in addition to company e-mail accounts. Perhaps most important, the article
gives a sense of how unaware most employees are about the current capabilities of
employee Internet monitoring and about their own lack of legal protection from
employers who monitor them.
Source #5
Vonnegut, David. "Comprehensive Immigration Reform And U.S. Labor Markets:
Dilemmas For Progressive Labor." New Labor Forum (Sage Publications Inc.)
24.1 (2015): 76-85. Academic Search Complete. Web. 9 Mar. 2015.
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Objectives. We sought to understand how local immigration enforcement
policies affect the utilization of health services among immigrant Hispanics/
Latinos in North Carolina. Methods. In 2012, we analyzed vital records data to
determine whether local implementation of section 287(g) of the Immigration and
Nationality Act and the Secure Communities program, which authorizes local law
enforcement agencies to enforce federal immigration laws, affected the prenatal
care utilization of Hispanics/Latinas. We also conducted 6 focus groups and 17
interviews with Hispanic/Latino persons across North Carolina to explore the
impact of immigration policies on their utilization of health services. Results. We
found no significant differences in utilization of prenatal care before and after
implementation of section 287(g), but we did find that, in individual-level
analysis, Hispanic/Latina mothers sought prenatal care later and had inadequate
care when compared with non-Hispanic/Latina mothers. Participants reported
profound mistrust of health services, avoiding health services, and sacrificing
their health and the health of their family members. Conclusions. Fear of
immigration enforcement policies is generalized across counties. Interventions are
needed to increase immigrant Hispanics/Latinos’ understanding of their rights and
eligibility to utilize health services. Policy-level initiatives are also needed (e.g.,
driver’s licenses) to help undocumented persons access and utilize these services.