HIST3345 Module 5 Assignment Annotated Bibliography Latest 2020 December

HIST3345 Modern American History

Module 5 Assignment

Annotated Bibliography

This assignment might be one of the most important building blocks toward your final research essay because it starts to bring together all of the pieces that you have compiled so far. If all goes well, you will have completed about 40 percent of the research essay by the time the annotated bibliography is written. The second written assignment in this module will bring the research essay roughly 75 percent toward completion. Here’s what I’d like you to do:

Go back to the research topic statement that you prepared in Module 2, and the research essay abstract you prepared in Module 3.

Review both of these pieces of writing, along with any instructor comments you received.

Use the two writings, along with additional thoughts you have gathered, to write a thesis statement for your final research essay. Consider this statement to be as close to your final thesis as possible. It should include a cause and effect statement. For guidance on preparing the thesis statement, please consult Mary Rampolla’s advice on Developing a Thesis Statement in chapter 4 of A Pocket Guide to Writing in History, particularly pp. 55-57. You also might want to visit the ESC online writing center’s page on Research Writingopens in a new window or the Purdue University Online Writing Lab for Tips on Writing Thesis Statementsopens in a new window. After you have developed the thesis, start to construct an argument. Look at Rampolla chapter 4 for guidance on supporting your thesis, as well as the links cited above.

BE SURE TO ADD YOUR CAUSE/EFFECT THESIS STATEMENT AT THE TOP OF THE ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY.  The thesis and argument together should be about 250-400 words in length. Place them at the top of the bibliography that you prepared for Module 4. You are now ready to begin writing the annotated bibliography.

Purdue University’s Online Writing Labopens in a new window defines an annotated bibliography as “a summary and/or evaluation of each of the sources” one uses for researching a topic. Historians and scholars of many other academic disciplines prepare annotated bibliographies to organize materials and thoughts, outline papers, and develop arguments. We will use the annotated bibliography as a means for developing your thesis and argument. Please do the following:

Prepare a summary statement of 200 to 250 words for each of the sources in your bibliography. The statement should summarize the source and it should explain how that particular source will support your thesis and argument.

You may include one or two key quotes from the source in your summary statement (which also is known as an annotation) as well as biographic material about the author, if that material is relevant to your research essay’s topic.

Keep the annotated bibliography organized in alphabetical order for now. You will, however, probably want to start organizing your resources differently in the body of your paper as you start to do the final writing.

For further guidance on preparing your annotated bibliography, see Rampolla, chapter 3, pp. 29-31 as well as the Purdue Online Writing Labopens in a new window.

Evaluation Criteria

Before submitting an assignment for this course please read the SUNY Empire State College statement on Academic Integrityopens in a new window. Please use the Chicago Style for citations, and take care to ensure that the citations are completed properly. In addition, please use Rampolla’s A Pocket Guide to Writing in History to help ensure that your work is of historical quality.

For assistance in completing your assignment utilize the resources available to you in the Research Assignment Guidelines page of the Course Information documents.