Week 2 Assignment: Annotated Bibliography
Week 2 Assignment: Annotated Bibliography
For this assignment, you will write an annotated bibliography on three sources. For detailed information on how to create your Annotated Bibliography, please see attached file Sample Annotated Bibliography.
In your Annotated Bibliography, you will
Copy and paste the writing prompt you chose to explore in Week One into a Word Document. ( Prompt 3 “A Worn Path” (Eudora Welty, 1941) this is the prompt
Restate the working thesis you created in Week One below your writing prompt.
In this same document, identify your primary source (your short story) and two secondary, academic sources.
Summarize each source and explain how the source supports your working thesis. These summaries should be 100 to 150 words for each entry.
For the Annotated Bibliography assignment, you will write annotations for three sources. One source should be a primary source. Next, you will choose two secondary sources that are additional to the text.
The two sources you locate must be academic sources and come from peer-reviewed journals or other scholarly publications.
The term primary source refers to:
Original documents: Diaries, speeches, manuscripts, letters, interviews, news film footage, autobiographies, official records, etc.
Creative works: Short stories.
The primary source is the short story you choose to write about (Prompt 3 “A Worn Path” (Eudora Welty, 1941) this is the prompt See attached file A Worn Path
Secondary sources are publications like textbooks, magazine articles, histories, criticisms, commentaries, encyclopedias, etc.
An appropriate secondary source to use for your literary analysis is a journal article that interprets and offers analysis of a literary work.
The Annotated Bibliography includes a citation of the source in APA format. It also includes a brief summary of the source.
Example of the Primary Source for the Annotated Bibliography
See the example below of the primary source:
In your Annotated Bibliography you will find two sources that will help you explore and discuss your primary text. See example below.
Requirements
The Annotated Bibliography
Must be 100 to 150 words for each entry and formatted according to APA Must copy and paste the writing prompt.
Must restate your working thesis.
Must use at least one primary source and two scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
Must document all sources in APA style
