...University Writing Center Cavanaugh Hall 427 University Library 2125 (317)274-2049 (317)278-8171 www.iupui.edu/~uwc “Because writers need readers” Preparing an Annotated Bibliography Classes that require you to do research often require an annotated bibliography. An annotated bibliography is a useful way to start a research project because it asks you to collect and summarize sources that you might use later in a research paper. Collecting and summarizing sources early in the research process helps you narrow your research topic. The bibliography can also help you evaluate the possible usefulness of source material for later use in a paper. This handout is designed to show you how to create an annotated bibliography. Specifically, it will guide you through the process of creating an annotated bibliography by 1) describing in general terms the meaning of the words “annotated bibliography,” 2) explaining in general terms how to write an annotated bibliography, and 3) offering an example of what an annotated bibliography could look like. However, it is important to note that individual instructors may have different requirements for their annotated bibliography assignments. Please check with your teacher or assignment sheet BEFORE following the advice in this handout. What is an Annotated Bibliography? If you have been assigned to write an annotated bibliography, you might be confused about what the words "annotated" and "bibliography" mean. The word “annotated” is the past...
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...University Writing Center Cavanaugh Hall 427 University Library 2125 (317)274-2049 (317)278-8171 www.iupui.edu/~uwc “Because writers need readers” Preparing an Annotated Bibliography Classes that require you to do research often require an annotated bibliography. An annotated bibliography is a useful way to start a research project because it asks you to collect and summarize sources that you might use later in a research paper. Collecting and summarizing sources early in the research process helps you narrow your research topic. The bibliography can also help you evaluate the possible usefulness of source material for later use in a paper. This handout is designed to show you how to create an annotated bibliography. Specifically, it will guide you through the process of creating an annotated bibliography by 1) describing in general terms the meaning of the words “annotated bibliography,” 2) explaining in general terms how to write an annotated bibliography, and 3) offering an example of what an annotated bibliography could look like. However, it is important to note that individual instructors may have different requirements for their annotated bibliography assignments. Please check with your teacher or assignment sheet BEFORE following the advice in this handout. What is an Annotated Bibliography? If you have been assigned to write an annotated bibliography, you might be confused about what the words "annotated" and "bibliography" mean. The word “annotated” is the past...
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...Annotated Bibliography for Standardized Tests Sammy North DeVry University Annotated Bibliography for Standardized Tests Everyone is affected by the strength or weakness of our educational system, from the students and their ability to succeed in college and in the workplace, to the employers who hire them—and everyone in between. Every taxpayer is a stakeholder in education, because these tests are paid for by tax dollars, and the return on investment in education is not where it should be. Standardized tests should be abolished and replaced with end-of-year subject tests because they will save time and money, lead to increased mastery of core subjects, and diminish dropout rates. Clemmitt, M. (2007, July 13). Students under stress. CQ Researcher, 17, 577–600. Retrieved from http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/ This article discusses the pressure that students face in public schools today. Homework has increased, as has stress caused by high-stakes standardized testing. This type of pressure results in less time for children to play, sleep, and interact with their parents. The solution is to limit the time children spend on homework, but given that American students lag behind their international peers in tests of basic subjects, decreasing schoolwork seems not to be the answer. Although Clemmitt is a journalist and not an expert on the subject, she cites many experts and authoritative sources to lend credibility to the article, including books and surveys from...
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...Victoria Cummins Dr. Fayeza Hasanat ENC 1101 November 23, 2015 Topic: School Security Thesis Statement: With the increase in school violence and terrorism certain precautions dealing with security need to be taken before more deaths occur. Annotated Bibliography Hasselstrom, Linda. “A Peaceful Women Explains Why She Carries a Gun.” Pattern for College Writing: 272-277. Print. This story helps support the idea that anybody, not just a specific woman, owns a gun people take what they are saying more seriously. Author Linda Hasselstrom has strong feministic views when put in comparison to other women writers. Orwell, George. “Shooting an Elephant.” Pattern for College Writing: 123-133. Print. Guns are a sensitive subject around the world. George, through this descriptive story tells how he does not want to shoot the elephant even though he knows that it has been and will continue being a threat. This story can compare to Hasselstrom’s because it shows the flip side of guilt instead of the confidence that Hasselstrom had. Smith-Yackel, Bonnie. “My Mother Never Worked.” Pattern for College Writing: 118-122. Print. The United States government can cause a lot of stress and frustration on the public. The story shows how the government categorizes people in groups almost like the feeling of discrimination from the short essay “Just Walk On By: A Black Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space” by Brent Staples. Sterling, Brent. “Do Good Fences...
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...Name Instructor Course Date Social Media and the Internet: Does it Help or Hinder? Human beings demonstrate a desire to interact and share their experiences with others. With the development of social media and the Internet, such interactions are rapidly shifting. Evidently, it is rare to meet a person who does not use this form of media to communicate with others. It follows that social media and the Internet have become an integral component of the life of an ordinary human being (Tardanico). For instance, Facebook alone has more than 500 million users globally. For the other sites, such Twitter and Myspace, the cumulative number of interactions per minutes is millions. However, the only legitimate means of connection between people is through the authentic communication. Studies reveal that only 7% of communication is reliant on the verbal and written word. The other portion of it is dependent on nonverbal body language (Werbach). This paper evaluates various sources to determine how developments in social media and the Internet have increased the level of human interaction at the expense of effective face-to-face communication. One Saturday evening, Annalise exchanged instant messages with her son who is a college student. They ‘chatted’ quite a lot, Annalise asking about his well-being and her son replying with positive statements followed by emoticons: hearts and smiles. That same evening, her son was arrested for DUI. A few hours later, it was discovered...
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...Mobile Devices in The Classroom Angel Aguilar RESEARCH WRITING WRTG 291 Annotated bibliography Gentile, M. (2012). The Importance of Managing iPads in the Classroom. Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, V78(N3), P.11-13. This article discusses a rising trend in the implementation of mobile devices into the education system. Ipad and tablets have worked their way into districts and IT managers have tackled the task of viewing the different vulnerabilities to the existing infrastructure concerning security and load management. Most devices come preexisting manufacture security features, but these features are usually deactivated from the manufacture in order to provide an open source concept. IT and district administrators look at the overview performance of the Ipad and mobile devices and to ensure optimal performance not only in hardware and software. Mobile devices cannot jeopardize the Current school privacy and security policies as each student will be allowed to access and manage their own user account. Cost of each device would have to be considered by district administrators, as each device would have a wide range of in price. Even Teacher will be tasked to apply current curriculum in class via apps, emails, and peer-to-peer configurations. In essence, this article overviews the importance of added safety features each Ipad will need and increasing flexibility teacher will have with their students. Higgins, J. (2013, August...
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...Annotated Bibliography Finkel, E. (2010, November 1). Black Children Still Left Behind DistrictAdministration.com. Retrieved October 22, 2012, from http://www.districtadministration.com/article/black-children-still-left-behind In this article, Ed Finkel discusses the effect No Child Left Behind had on minority students, in particular African-American students. Finkel uses data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress to support his claims that African American students have been negatively impacted by the No Child Left Behind Act that was passed almost a decade prior. Finkel interviews several sources who work for or with educational institutions to get their expertise in the matter. The information that was provided in this article gives a clear stance on African-American education and the effect No Child Left Behind has had on it. It also provides specific examples of how detrimental the Act has been. Ed Finkel has been a writer for over twenty years. He writes mainly about public policy, with a special emphasis on education. Finkel worked as a writer for Chicago Lawyer Magazine, and he also writes for DistrictAdministration.com which is a website dedicated to school district management. Finkel's writing is clear and concise and he only makes claims with supporting evidence. The information will be added to my paper to attest that African-American children score lower on standardized tests, graduate high school at lower rates, and are considerably more likely...
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...Group Assignment Critical Review of a Proposal Assessment of Role of Micro and Small Enterprises on Economic Empowerment of Women: A survey of Women Operated Urban Agriculture Enterprises in Wukro Woreda, Tigray Group Members 1. Bersabeh Elias 2. Dagmawit Meried 3. Kalkidan Amdie 4. Kalkidan Wubie 5. Maria Alemu June 21/2014 Addis Ababa Content Introduction ? i. Title page * The title page did not have a page number (which is correct) * The purpose of the research was clearly specified as : A Research Proposal Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master of Arts Degree in Development Studies * Name of the researcher is stated: * Advisor and co-advisors are mentioned * Place, Month and year (December 2011) is also mentioned ii. Acronyms Abbreviation should have come before/at the beginning of the proposal next to title page. (The abbreviations are in alphabetic order, which is correct) The following abbreviations are used in the proposal but not found in the list of abbreviations FAO – Food and Agriculture Organization FDRE – Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia HIV/AIDS – Human Immunodeficiency Virus/ Acquired Immuno- Deficiency Syndrome MFI – Micro Finance Institution MSE –Small and Medium Sized Enterprises NAP-GE – National Action Plan for Gender Equality NGO – Non Governmental Organization REWA – Revolutionary Ethiopian Women’s Association UN –...
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...Annotated Bibliography Books: 1. Awkward, Michael. Soul Covers: Rhythm and Blues Remakes and the Struggle for Artistic Identity : (Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Phoebe Snow). Durham: Duke UP, 2007. Print. a. Soul Covers is an engaging look at how three very different rhythm and blues performers—Aretha Franklin, Al Green, and Phoebe Snow—used cover songs to negotiate questions of artistic, racial, and personal authenticity 2. Bego, Mark. Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul. New York, NY: Skyhorse Pub., 2012. Print. a. Traces the life of Aretha Franklin from deserted child to teenage mother to Grammy winner to inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. 3. Bogdanov, Vladimir. All Music Guide to Soul: The Definitive Guide to R&B and Soul. San Francisco, CA: Backbeat, 2003. Print. a. This is a complete guide to the uniquely American world of the blues. The roots of the blues can be found in the turn-of-the-century Mississippi Delta, but today its reach extends into all kinds of music including rock, jazz, country, soul, and more. 4. Brown, Ruth, and Andrew Yule. Miss Rhythm: The Autobiography of Ruth Brown, Rhythm and Blues Legend. New York: D.I. Fine, 1996. Print. a. Tony Award winner Ruth Brown is a rhythm-and-blues revolutionary, a woman whose early successes earned her instant worldwide fame and launched a career that has influenced such legendary performers as Aretha Franklin, Dinah Washington, Little Richard and Stevie Wonder. This candid autobiography offers the true...
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...Sarah Veslany CAS 202 Annotated Bibliography Assignment 4/5/2015 Bury, R., & Li, J. (2013). Is it live or is it time-shifted, streamed or downloaded? Watching television in the era of multiple screens. News, Media, & Society, 17(4), 592-610. In this article the authors discuss how different methods of television viewing are effected across gender, age, and geographic location. The study takes into account what percentage of television viewers watch television traditionally versus how many television viewers use stream or download their preferred TV programs. The specific viewing options the researchers take into account are watching a show on a television at airtime, recorded DVR viewing after the scheduled broadcast time, internet streaming...
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...The Present, Future and Ethics of Nanotechnology Marlon Green Writing 122 Vincent E. Lasnik December 7, 2010 Word count: 1871 The world has embraced nanotechnology with open arms. What once was science fiction, something you watched on Star Trek is now a global reality. Majority of us have not even noticed. Whether you are a CEO of a multibillion dollar die cast company, a heart surgeon, an auto repair shop manager, a drug company representative, or even a house painter. Nanotechnology will impact you. This is not just a new range of technology but a new social force. The family of Nano scale technologies, like numerous other perilous issues of our time, stands at a stage of choices for human ethics. The concept of Nano scale technology begins with the boldly speculative nineteen fifty nine speech “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom” by Nobel Prize winning Theoretical physicist Richard Feynman. In the speech he said he was not afraid to consider the question whether ultimately in the great future, we can arrange the atoms the way we want (Feynman, 1959). Scientists in the beginning had meant Nano machines of some sort that would be able to build desired entities atom by atom (Molecular manufacturing). Today nanotechnology can be more broadly viewed as the contemporary result of a natural downsizing progression in nearly all the sciences and there techniques. Nanotechnology is the study and control...
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...Unethical Financial Penalties Deborah A. Reynolds Chamberlain School of Nursing Life is full of choices. A nurse who has been named nurse of the year twice in her career, has her masters in science, and has her certification in critical care also weighs three hundred pounds. A computer engineer who has designed a patented accounts payable program also goes home nightly and relaxes with a six pack of beer. A cashier at the local Wegmans has the record for scanning more products per hour than anyone else in the organization also smokes a pack of cigarettes a day. An accountant who has never missed a day’s work also races in dirt bike tournaments. An African American father adds salt to everything he eats. A farmer sprays his fields with fertilizer, but never wears a mask. A fifty-year old man working in a factory never sees a doctor also has a strong family history of cancer. Lifestyle choices carry health risks. Who is ultimately responsible for the costs of unhealthy lifestyle choices? Healthcare in America is threatened by rising health care costs and the increasing incidence and financial burden of chronic diseases. As employers, insurance companies, and the government seek to decrease these escalating costs, there is a concentration on individual health behavioral choices and the personal obligation of the individual to adopt healthy lifestyle choices. Within the framework of health care reform, there is a growing initiative by employers to impose financial...
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...The Unsafe Culture of BP The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been called the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. The British Petroleum Company (BP) gulf spill started in April of 2010, and was first contained in July of 2010; it took the company 2 months to actually start the process of containing the spill. The Associated Press and The New York Times, reported that a total of 94 to 184 million gallons of oil were unleashed on the shores off the Gulf. This disaster has caused controversial topics to arise as to what the BP company is doing in preventing these disasters or if they are even taking any precaution to that notion. Critics say that BP has had a very bad track record when it comes to safety. It is a risky company that has grown too fast. They have had accidents like the one of BP’s most troubled refineries, which lies, in the State of Texas, which also had its fair share of explosions. BP now faces the largest liabilities in corporate history. All of what BP seems to be doing is shutting their workers mouths with money they cannot refuse but money that has no affect on the company’s profits. BP must change their culture of deadly accidents, disastrous oil spills, and countless safety violations. The Texas BP refinery had an “accident” in 2005 where 15 people died in an explosion and fire, 170 others where injured. Afterwards there were charges that BP management valued profits more than safety. BP acquired the 12,000-acre refinery in 1999 as part of...
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...How To Market Facebook With Businesses Harry Pruitt Benedictine University Author Note Harry Pruitt, Student in Business, Benedictine University. Abstract We normally judge a book by its cover, so visuals can be very important. Online marketing through Facebook is no different. Most of our influences are through social media and more people are turning to social media to gain more business for their companies. Facebook has been successful in helping with business marketing, spending as little or as much as you want or need to. Facebook is the social platform for web based businesses near and far. Even though Facebook has its different problems, marketing within Facebook has been very successful thus far .Using different strategies and building creative profiles makes for a better business outcome. Bigger dreams become bigger goals, by staying on the right path you accomplish you objective and achieve your marketing goals as a business owner. How To Market Facebook With Businesses Facebook is an online social networking service. Facebook was founded in February 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg and some of his friends at Harvard University. The website was first used for Harvard University students only, but then it gradually excelled to various universities, high schools, and even 13 year old children. Before entering Facebook, the user must register and create a personal profile. The use of this social network is to add other users as friends, exchange messages, and receive automatic...
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