Eng 103, Spring 2007, Essid
Paper Five: Annotated Bibliography & Research Proposal

Topic: Practice for the final essay.

You may pick a topic of your own relating to how technology influences communication, or you may focus on a question raised as you explored Second Life for paper 4.

Be careful: I will not let you switch topics later because you didn't find enough sources. So I have made this a multi-part process to avoid grief later for you.

Part One:

I must pre-approve your topic; get me a proposal with the following (about one page) by Tuesday. April 10.

• A one-paragraph summary of your topic, in a nutshell.
• A critical question and answers you hope that your sources provide (see AN 265-267)

If you do not submit a proposal, I will dock your final grade for the final portfolio by a full letter. I will also accept a draft of your full bibliography (part 2) up to April 9--after that I'll look at a sample entry only.

Part Two:

In the portfolio, I expect you to include an annotated bibliography of at least six sources (you'll use these plus at least another six for your final paper). Do not include any of our class readings in the six. You may use them, but they are "extras."

Here is what you must include:

• One source from a book-length work (originally in print; could be online now)
• One from a scholarly journal, not a popular magazine
• One other from popular or general publications that were originally in print
• Three others from sources of your choice: popular Web sites, blogs, scholarly Web sites. . .

Audience: The class and the Writing Fellows from Eng. 383.

Format: For each source, a paragraph of 50 words or so noting why you think this source will help you explore the topic, plus the author's focus and main claim, as you see it.

• Richmond Libraries' page on MLA sources: http://library.richmond.edu/help/citing/index.htm
• There is an example of how to do short annotations at the end of our MLA example
• Another example appear at the UR Libraries' Site
• Use MLA format for all sources; see our guide pages on documenting sources
• Make margins no larger than 1.25" and type size no larger than 12 points in Time or Times New Roman fonts.

Grammar, Style, Usage:Writer's Web on Thesis Statements , "What is Analysis?" , and pages under punctuation (esp. comma, semicolon, and colon) and sentence structure.

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