Write a research paper on Robert S McNamara, Secretary of Defence, Annotated Bibliography.Find TEN sources on this individual using the research databases and other scholarly resources.
You will use these resources to write a literature review about your person. You want to use good resources because you will need them for the paper next week. You can use articles, ebooks, encyclopedia articles, and information from academic videos.
You can use Wikipedia to locate sources but not as one of your sources for information. Check the bibliography list at the end of the entry of the cabinet member you select.
Use SCHOLARLY resources. You can use the research databases, Kentlink and Ohiolink (to locate e-books), government documents, and YouTube to locate resources. After you locate the sources that you want to use for your assignment, you then need to prepare your biography.
4. Write your citation in APA format followed by the descriptive annotation.
Write your citation of the source in APA format. You can write all the citations first for the resources you plan to use.
The second part of the entry is the annotation. It is a summary of the evidence being cited. A good annotated bibliography summary provides enough information in a sentence or two to help you and others understand what the research is about in a neutral and non-opinionated way.
The first two sentences of this annotation are an example of this sort of very brief, “just the facts” sort of summary. In the brief summaries of entries in an annotated bibliography, stay away from making evaluations about the source—“I didn’t like this article very much” or “I thought this article was great.” The most important goal of your brief summary is to help you, colleagues, and other potential readers get an idea about the subject of the particular piece of evidence.
Summaries can be challenging to write, especially when you are trying to write them about longer and more complicated sources of research. Keep these guidelines in mind as you write your own summaries.
Keep your summary short. Good summaries for annotated bibliographies are not “complete” summaries; rather, they provide the highlights of the evidence in as brief and concise a manner as possible, no more than a sentence or two.
Don’t quote from what you are summarizing. Summaries will be more useful to you and your colleagues if you write them in your own words. Instead of quoting directly what you think is the point of the piece of evidence, try to paraphrase it. (For more information on paraphrasing your evidence, see Chapter 3, “Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Avoiding Plagiarism”).
Don’t “cut and paste” from database abstracts. Many of the periodical indexes that are available as part of your library’s computer system include abstracts of articles. Do no “cut” this abstract material and then “paste” it into your own annotated bibliography. For one thing, this is plagiarism. Second, “cutting and pasting” from the abstract defeats one of the purposes of writing summaries and creating an annotated bibliography in the first place, which is to help you understand and explain your research.
Use APA format for annotated bibliographies. Your sources should be in alphabetical order.
Write a descriptive annotation for each of the ten citations you plan to use in your paper for next week.
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