ENGL 147N Week 3 Discussion; Breaking the Cherry-Picking Habit - Why Write an Annotated Bibliography

Initial Post Directions You need to write 2 paragraphs for the Initial Post. Main Post Paragraph 1: Share Your Thoughts on Annotated Bibliographies • When you started this class, did you fully understand the definition of an "annotatedbibliography"? • Based on your textbook and lesson readings for this week, what do you nowunderstand an annotated bibliography to be? Have you been guilty of "cherry picking" from the sources you write about? Explain. • Inwhatwaysdoyouanticipateyourannotatedbibliographybeinghelpfultoyouinwritingastrong,compelling argument researchessay? • Also,afterreviewingthelessonandthetextbook,whatremainingquestionsdoyouhaveabouttheannotated bibliography in general and/or about our assignment thisweek? Main Post Paragraph 2: Perform an Initial Source Evaluation Part of this week's assignment will ask you to richly evaluate your potential sources for your argument research essay. This post will get you started by allowing you to practice with one of those sources. In a single, rich paragraph: • Introduce the source by author, title, and year, and summarize itbriefly. • Explain why you chose this source overothers. • Briefly run through all five elements of the CRAAPtest. • How thoroughly have you read this source and how manytimes? • How have you benefited from more thorough readings of thesource? Below are examples for writing each paragraph. Keep in mind that a well-developed paragraph needs at least 5 sentences: 1 topic sentence, 3 or more support sentences, and 1 concluding sentence.