- Please do the assignment after you have been to the Library for research instruction.
Turn in two (2) copies of your annotated bibliography to your Cornerstone Professor.
- Choose a topic and develop a short list of appropriate keywords to research your chosen topic.
- During your Library instruction class, the Faculty Librarian showed you how to find:
- a book in VANCAT
- a magazine article in a database,
- a scholarly journal article in a database,
- a website and introduced you to CARS Evaluation of Internet Sites, which will assist you in evaluating a website.
- Your Annotated Bibliography Assignment includes:
- using your keywords to find a book in VANCAT,
- using your keywords to find a magazine article in a database,
- using your keywords to find a scholarly journal article in a database,
- using your keywords to find a website in Google, and using CARS to evaluate that website.
- Format for the Annotated Bibliography:
- At the top of your annotated bibliography, list your keywords.
- Next, use the following words as headings:
- Book
- Magazine Article
- Scholarly Journal Article
- Website
Using the headings will help us confirm that you understand the difference among the four types of sources.
- When you write your annotations of the book, the magazine article, and the journal article, we ask you to
(1) describe the contents and (2) evaluate how useful the item would be for you. If the book or article is not useful, state why it is not useful.
- In the annotation of the website, we are looking for the website to be evaluated using the CARS Evaluation of Internet Sites (click on the CARS evaluation of internet sites tab in the Cornerstone LibGuide). Remember, CARS = Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonableness, Support
- EXAMPLES: MLA, APA, and Turabian Annotated Bibliographies are found by clicking on the Resources & examples tab in the Cornerstone LibGuide.
- Suggested topics:
hip-hop music
images of minorities in the media
sexual imagery in the media or advertising
children’s use of television and other media
alcohol or cigarette advertising
human trafficking
benefits of team sports for children
televangelism
Kennedy assassination
Effect of advertising on children
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Disney films
violence in video games
internet pornography
sports and steroid use
family violence
women’s sports
violence and sports
binge drinking
Afghanistan War
Iraq War
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images of women in the media
violence in movies
Twitter and its impact
wife abuse
child abuse
college athletics/athletes
sports and racism
three strikes law
Facebook and its impact
women clergy
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