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When writing an annotated bibliography, try to include the following information for each source while also keeping your entries concise. Aim for 200-300 words per entry. Summarize: What are the main arguments? What is the overall point of the work? What topics are covered? Although you are covering a great deal of information, such summaries need to be brief. Evaluate: Was it helpful to your research? Is the source a strong or weak source of information? Is it biased? Are there errors? Reflect: Is the source helpful? Did it shape your thinking, or provide material for your argument? A note on format: The MLA-formatted citation should lead each entry. The annotation should be double spaced, and a space should be left between the end of an annotation and the next entry (this is my own preference, not necessarily MLA format). Your last name and the page number should appear in the upper right corner.

MLA Handbook 5.5.6 A Work in an Anthology pg. 157 Last Name, First Name. "title of chapter." Title of Book . Ed. First Name Last Name. Publication City: Publisher, YEAR. PG-PG. Print. example: Bordo, Susan. "The Moral Content of Nabokov's Lolita ." Aesthetic Subjects . Ed. Pamela R. Matthews and David McWhirter. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2003. 125-52. Print.

2.2 Understanding Your Role -"In a research report, you must switch the roles of student and teacher. When you do research, you learn something that others don’t know. So when you report it, you must think of your reader as someone who doesn’t know it but needs to and yourself as someone who will give her reason to want to know it" (18-19). My Response): This is were I become the teacher and try to prove to my professor I have created a truly original work with new and informing ideas. --"you’ll be expected to find (or create) a community of readers who not only share an interest in your topic (or can be convinced to), but also have questions about it that you can answer" (19). -- "Your report on medieval Tibetan weaving, for example, might help rug designers sell more rugs, but its basic aim is to help scholars better understand something about Tibetan art, such as How did medieval Tibetan rugs influence the art of modern China" (20)?

Pg.12-13 1.2: Why write it up? to share our work and ti improve it before we do. 1.2.1 Write to Remember -First write to remember what we read. a few talented people can hold a mass of info in their heads. -When you don't take notes on what you read you're likely to forget or worse, misremember it. 1.2.2 Write to Understand -A second reason for writing is to understand or see larger patterns in what you read. -Careful researchers never put off writing until theyve gathered all teh data they need: they write from the beginning of their project to help assemble their information in new ways. My Response) THis is very important and a weakness of my research and reading. To ask questions against the text as I read and often wait to comment until I finish reading and never follow up on my thoughts. Be a better annotater and follow up question as I read. Now I need to find time. However, I make this comment t time ut I feel if I take the time and record what my thoughts