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Creating an Annotated Bibliography

For this assignment, you’ll be reporting on your research up to this point by writing an annotated bibliography for three texts you found and read as part of your exploration of your research question. While a bibliography is an alphabetized list of texts that a writer cites in a text, an annotated bibliography is that list plus a more. The “annotated” part is the writer describing the source and explaining how it relates to the research topic or question. Writers also include how or why they consulted the text in their research and their evaluation of the text in terms of how credible, relevant, and useful it may be to them.

Read and review the texts you found so far and determined to be appropriate for this type of research project. Chose two or three that are especially interesting to you and that relate to your research question or questions. These texts should be ones that have changed the way you feel about your question or topic, or helped you rethink it in one way or another—not ones that confirmed your initial ideas.

Instructions: Begin your annotated bibliography by restating the research question that you’re exploring for your research project. Following that, go ahead and list your annotated bibliography. See below for a sample annotated bibliography.

A Sample Annotated Bibliography

Gardner, Sandra. “Today’s Courts Reconceive Race and Ethnicity in College Aid and Admissions”. Education Digest 72.5. 2007.

In the article, the main points were about universities discriminating against minorities in financial aid and acceptance. The article tries to explain the benefits of eliminating scholarships and financial aid geared towards one underserved group. The article by Sandra Gardner sort of relates to Tom Fox’s “Backlash against Access” because part of his essay dealt with “redistributing wealth to allow better access to marginalized groups” (1).

Pylce, Sandra W. “Access, Quality, and Equity”. Guidance and Counseling 19.4. 2004.

This article is extremely relevant to my topic. It describes the problem with raising tuition and the problem students are having paying for a higher education. The author of the article makes very strong points of how women and minorities are less likely to further their education, along with the less endowed, because they can’t afford to pay for the education. It also says that the government is granting less and less money to the universities and therefore the universities can’t afford to bring in many students. This article doesn’t really tie in with any of the texts we read in class, but as I said before, it is extremely useful. It is a peer reviewed article, and therefore credible.

Zehr, Mary Ann. "A Culture Put to the Test." Education Week 26 (2007). 16 Oct. 2014 <http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.uwm.edu/ehost/detail?vid=16&hid=16&sid=7845e97d-b73f-4908-9995-8fccc7e954df%40sessionmgr103>.

This article gives an example of a reservation school using cultural based learning while meeting the standards of the NCLB act. The students are taught both in their native Navajo language and English. I found this article of good use for a couple of reasons. First I thought it was interesting how they spoke about cultural based learning. while doing this project I want to learn about different and alternative ways of teaching and learning. I also found it interesting, because it deals with the NCLB act. I am very interested in this act and it obviously has a very big impact on our education system.