English 105 Suzara

How do Filipino-Americans (or other identities you relate / belong to create Kapwa OR engage in collective decolonization or indigenization
through ONE form of expression?*

*You can choose from dance, culinary arts, music, theater, writing/literature, DJ'ing, visual art, multimedia arts, education at the K-12 or college level, 
clubs, learning communities, activism (climate justice, food justice, environmental justice, anti-racism, LGBTQ, human rights, etc) in a nonprofit 
organization.

An annotated bibliography is a list of sources with a brief description (or annotation) following each source. It should include descriptive and evaluative comments about your selected sources. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited. Additionally, in the research process, creating a robust annotated bibliography will help you stay organized and evaluate your sources to select the most relevant ones to your topic and argument.

For this assignment, each annotation should be just a paragraph.

1. Collect and write annotated bibliography for five (5) relevant sources that will be useful for your next project. These should include: 1 source from class, 2 sources found in the library databases (scholarly), and 1 other source of choice (additional class text, popular source, or yet another scholarly source). Note: It's always good to explore more sources than you will actually use - you will be required to draw from four (4) sources for your paper.

Each annotation should explain the relevance of that text for the research paper topic in a paragraph. See the below questions for the annotation. This must be in your OWN words, not copied/pasted from any source.

What goes in to the Annotation part for our assignment?

1. Summary: What is it about, basically?  (in your own words).  Do not copy any synopses, AI generated or otherwise, from the web.  Write your own 2-3 sentences capturing what this source is about.
2. Authority: (aka the author’s background): Who wrote it?  What are their credentials? (i.e. Professor, journalist, member of the public affected by the issue)?
3. Audience: Who is the intended audience? (i.e. city planners, students, consumers, community members)?
4. Usefulness: How useful is it for your paper? What are the sources' strengths and weaknesses?
5. Comparison: Does it add something that the other sources do not cover?
6. Limitations: Are there any limitations to the methods the authors use or the conclusions they arrive at? Biases to consider, possibly?

Annotations versus Abstracts

Many scholarly articles start with an abstract, which is the author's summary of the article to help you decide whether you should read the entire article, and they are purely descriptive. An abstract is not the same thing as an annotation.  The annotation needs to be in your own words, to describe the author's authority, point of view, as well as the scope and purpose of the source, and to explain the relevance of the source to your essay argument or topic.

MLA Formatting

Your annotated bibliography should follow the MLA citation and formatting style guidelines, and it should be presented like the Works Cited page, just including the annotation below each source. Remember to organize your sources alphabetically by the author's last name and apply the correct indents when needed. You are welcome to use the attached template.