Annotated Bibliography for a research paper
Writing Your Annotated Bibliography
An annotation starts with the MLA citation for a given source. The annotations and citations should be ordered alphabetically.
Each annotation needs to provide the following three details:
A brief summary of the source
An evaluation for what the source includes and what holes (weaknesses) it has
A sentence telling me how you intend to use the source and for which appeal (pathos, logos, ethos). You need to be sure the kinds of evidence you use demonstrate a balance of the appeal across the length of your paper. That is, don’t use all statistics (logos); instead, balance these facts with anecdotes (pathos) and personal testimony of experts (ethos). You will find each of these on the NOVA website if you do good research.
Here is a sample NOVA website citation. It starts with the name of the page because for the website sources that are not reports, often there is no listed author. Every page you use from the NOVA site needs a different citation, but all will list NVCC (written out) in italics. In your paper, the use of this source will appear as (“Student Orientation”). Use abbreviated versions of your citations in the text of your paper:
“Student Orientation and Advising & Registration Sessions.” Northern Virginia Community College, 2013. Web. Date of Access.
For option 2, here is how everyone will cite the Freire article, which I provided to you:
Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum, 1993. Web. Date at the bottom of your copy.
Here is how to cite your database source, which you should use for your counterargument to discuss what other schools are doing or have done in the way of your paper topic:
Junge, Wolfgang, and Nathan Nelson. “Nature's Rotary Electromotors.” Science 29 Apr. 2005: 642-44. Science Online. Web. 5 Mar. 2009.
Langhamer, Claire. “Love and Courtship in Mid-Twentieth-Century England.” Historical Journal 50.1 (2007): 173-96. ProQuest. Web. 27 May 2009.
Student X
Professor N. Tong
ENG 111/ ENF 3
8 April 2014
Annotated Bibliography
Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum, 1993. Web. 4 Mar. 2014.
“Military Services.” Northern Virginia Communit College, 2013. Web. 8 Apr. 2014.
NOVA offers veteran-specific counseling to assist veterans in applying to NOVA and choosing and enrolling in classes. I will use services provided by the Office of Veteran’s Affairs and Veteran’s Counselor to show logos and ethos in the reason for having Veterans-specific programs. The website has no statistics and that makes it difficult to provide back-up data.
“NOVA Vetlink” Northern Virginia Communit College, 2013. Web. 8 Apr. 2014.
NOVA Vetlink is NOVA’s with the Virginia’s Wounded Warrior Program. NOVA has individuals ready to talk with other veterans about combat situations. This program is important for veterans who are returning from combat and transitioning. I will use this to show pathos in the stresses that result from some combat experience.
Rumann, Corey, Marisa Rivera, and Ignacio Hernandez. “Student Veterans and Community Colleges.” New Directions for Community Colleges 155 (2011): 51-58. Ebscohost. Web. 8 Apr. 2014.
This source will serve mainly as logos as my counter argument to argue for a centralized and specialized point of contact for veterans. All of the programs offered for veterans are great, but they are in different buildings and different rooms in those different buildings. Veterans need to go to 4 different offices just to do the minimum in order to use VA benefits. My argument is that NOVA should commandeer a large room (possible one on the third floor of CA?) and put all Veterans programs in one place. I’ll also argue that Veteran’s special advisors should be full time veterans supports (currently, some are only on campus a few days a week and others even teach classes and support non-veterans).
“VetSuccess Now Serving the Annandale Campus” Northern Virginia Communit College, 2013. Web. 8 Apr. 2014.
VetSuccess On Campus (VSOC) is a Veterans Affairs (VA) program that has a partnership with NOVA where a VA representative is on campus to help students transition into college life and they can answer questions regarding educational benefits and to be a source for other Veteran related needs such as counseling services and connection to community services that focus on Veterans. I will use VetSuccess to show ethos in the value of achieving a positive transition for veterans.
“Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment.” U.S. Depart of Veterans Affairs, 2014. Web. 8 Apr. 2014.
This website was the link from NOVA’s VetSuccess, I will use this to provide more information on the VetSuccess program since the information about the program is on this website rather than NOVA’s due to the agreement between the School and the VA to host the VetSuccess Prgram.
Wildblood, Margie. Email interview. 10 Apr. 2014.
Margie Wildblood is the Veteran’s Counselor and has agreed to answer some interview questions via email Thursday due to schedule. I plan to use quotes from our email interview to show ethos for Veterans-specific counseling services. I will write my rough draft without her interview but wanted to include it here since it is a planned portion of my final draft. A weakness of the personal interview is a lack of facts or logos, since answers are mostly opinion based.
