Purpose
Our research about social disparities and popular media begins with examining established ideas and perspectives. We read to learn new information, to identify arguments and debates, and to develop questions for academic inquiry. Part of our reading during the first part of the semester will be organized by an annotated bibliography. This list of citations and summaries will provide an opportunity to document your reading, to clarify your ideas, and to engage in the practices of careful reading, summary, and evaluation. You will be the primary audience for this text as you revise and research your project.
Instructions
For this assignment, you will read, analyze, and annotate five sources related to our course topic of social inequality and its connection to the media that surrounds us. This work will begin with inspiration from some of our course texts. Your first annotation for WP 1 will be for a course text of your choosing — anything that we have read between weeks 1-3. The second annotation should be an external source of your choosing that helps your audience understand/define our class topic (i.e., disparities/ inequalities/ media construction/ media consumption).
For instance, lets say that you are interested in researching more about the inequalities that undocumented immigrants face in the U.S.. You are also interested in the way that popular media depicts these individuals, primarily films. Here is an example of what your sources might look like if you are preliminarily interested in researching immigration and film portrayals:
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Our Week 2 reading by Tim Posada (Popular source)
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A NYT article regarding the racial inequities in America (popular source)
Formatting
Each entry in your annotated bibliography should include an MLA-style citation and an annotation. Annotations are paragraph-structured sections that summarize and evaluate a source. The sources should be arranged alphabetically, following the model of a Works Cited page, with the annotation paragraph inserted after each citation (see our WP 1 template). The focus of the paragraph should be a clear and concise synthesis of the authors’ ideas and claims, as well as a brief evaluation of each source.
Evaluation
A successful Annotated Bibliography will:
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include at least five sources that will help you explore a specific subject of inequality and how it is influenced by popular media. One of these sources will be from our course texts; the other four sources should shed light on your research aspirations for the rest of the semester and they will be found through individual research.
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provide an accurate MLA-style citation for each source and organize the citations in alphabetical order, following the model of a Works Cited page.
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offer a clear and concise summary and evaluation of the source after each citation in the form of a well-developed paragraph.
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be well-organized, free of grammatical errors, and avoid plagiarism.
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