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Topic question: How does facial recognition technology effect the student population?
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHYOVERVIEW
The annotated bibliography assignment asks you to develop and narrow a research question aboutthe current (arose within the last 18-24 months) and unresolved (not yet settled) issue you choseand compile sources that provide evidence about the issue that will help you answer your question.The annotated bibliography is a key step in inquiry-based, or question driven research. You will notbe formulating a thesis at this point.
ASSIGNMENTPART 1: IDENTIFY AN ISSUE AND DEVELOP YOUR RESEARCH QUESTIONFinding a current and unresolved issue in your field can be challenging, but if you know where tolook, you can find an abundance of ongoing conversations in public writing to explore: Recent legislation that has been introduced in Congress or in state legislatures that isrelevant to your field but has not yet been voted upon. Congress.gov is a great source fortracking federal legislation. This is often a great source for identifying a possible issue in yourfield. Major newspapers such as The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal often publisharticles relevant to issues in your field of study. Trade publications in your field also publish articles about current trends and/or controversies in the field The advocacy pages of the major professional association for your academic discipline orfuture profession often list the issues for which the association advocates to help theprofessional.Make sure your sources lead you to an issue in your field that meets the requirements for the Issue,Audience, and Genre Analysis: the issue must be current (arisen within the last 18-24 months),unresolved (the issue is not settled), and has a researchable audience (stakeholder) who hasdecision-making authority over the issue.Once you have an issue that meets these requirements, use the instructional material in our courseto craft a narrowed research question that the sources you are about to compile can help answer.
Use that question, and the search terms it can yield, to begin compiling sources for your annotatedbibliography.
PART 2: COMPILE YOUR ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHYList five highly credible sources that help you understand the scope of a current and unresolvedissue in your field and the audiences who have decision-making authority over it. (NOTE: To arriveat five great sources, you will review many more than that). At Least two of those sources must befrom a peer-reviewed article published in a scholarly journal. The remainder can be from the majornewspapers, trade publications, federal agencies (good for data), notable blogs written bycredentialed authors, and prestigious periodicals.Include sources that address the following aspects of research for your final argument paper: One source for background information about the issue (scholarly sources are usually goodfor this purpose) One source that provides evidence about a potential audience, someone with decisionmaking authority over the issue you are investigating Two sources that offer differing perspectives on the issue One source the establishes why this issue is current and unresolved in your field .
PART 3: WRITING THE ANNOTATIONSADAPTED FROM ANDREW HARNACKS WRITING RESEARCH PAPERSFor each of your sources, you must write a rhetorical précis, a four-sentence summary orannotation that does the following:Sentence 1 Name of author and title of work [publishing information, date, and page numbers inparentheses]; a rhetorically accurate verb (such as asserts, argues, suggests, contends, believes,reports, indicates, insists); and a “that” clause containing the thesis or main argument of the work.Sentence 2 A brief but accurate explanation of how the author develops or supports the thesis,usually in the same order as was developed in the essay.Sentence 3 A statement of the authors apparent purpose, followed by an “in order to” phrase.Sentence 4 An explanation of how this source is relevant to your research and why you chose it.
