Keeping track of your sources for a research project is important, but knowing what is in those sources is just as important. The next step in the research process allows you to do both. An Annotated Bibliography will give you the opportunity to keep the source citations together, evaluate those sources, and identify key elements within each source. As with the References page assignment, this assignment also follows up from the Module 5: Generating a Research Topic Discussion Board and uses the same topic that you supplied and was approved there.
Your textbook and the Module 6 resources identify two types of annotated bibliographies: descriiptive annotated bibliographies and evaluative annotated bibliographies. The descriiptive annotated bibliography is the next step you will use in identifying sources appropriate for your research project and identifying material from that source that may be beneficial to your research paper. It provides a source citation (taken from the References page) and adding a brief 1-2 sentence descriiption of that source. An evaluative annotated bibliography takes the descriiption and adds significant objective details, including possible quotes to use in the research project, as well as a subjective analysis of the source for your purposes. For this assignment, you will be writing the shorter descriiptive annotated bibliography for each of the sources you have identified in the References list from last week.
As with the References page, please be sure to follow proper format in your text, on the OWL at Purdue University website, and as discussed in class. Type your References entries in your word processor and add in descriiptive annotations after each entry.
The following ideas should be considered as you create your descriiptive annotated bibliography:
Maintaining use of proper APA format for your sources
Inclusion of a brief descriiptive annotation for each source
Maintain alphabetization of source citations, as on the References page
Use of full indent for the annotations
Use of proper font and spacing for the document
Assignment Requirements:
Your Annotated Bibliography list should have at least 4 sources included, obtained from the FTCC database system. You may have additional sources from other places (websites, professional interviews, etc.), but all sources should be verified and evaluated for scholarly content. All sources from general web searches (Google, etc) must be approved by the instructor before using. Hard copy sources (books and other items obtained from the FTCC library) may be used, as well.
Formatting Requirements:
APA 7th edition format
My Topic is: Reparations for African Americans. For over 250 years slaves were brought into the New World and later the United States bound to work in agriculture and other occupations for very little in the way of compensation, but it was their labor, to a great degree, that established and maintained the economies of many states in the South. Thus, their slave labor was utilized to establish and maintain a significant portion of the national economy for over two centuries. I knew very little about this proposal to provide reparations for African-Americans to compensate them for the uncompensated slave labor they provided and for their suffering of being slaves with no personal rights. This is a topic, my research has shown, that has arisen in recent decades and which is controversial, but no significant action has been taken to provide for these reparations, and many people have argued against it. Therefore, this is a topic suitable for an argumentative paper. There is opposition to this idea from a number of sources, but most often from politicians not wanting to spend the money and/or from racists. Research questions: What are the relevant and most significant pros and cons on this issue? Who are the chief opponents of this proposal; who are its chief proponents?
My approved scholarly sources are:
References
1.Allen, R. L. (1998). Past due: The African American Quest For Reparations. The Black Scholar, 28(2), 2–17.
2.Cha-Jua, S. K. (2014). Robert L. Allen’s “Past due: The african american quest for reparations.” The Black Scholar, 44(3), 29–31.
3.Chisolm, T. E. (1999). Sweep around your own front door: Examining the argument for Legislative African American reparations. University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 147(3), 677.
4.The unintended consequences of promising black Americans reparations. (2020). Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, 20(4).
38 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 279 (2003)
Repairing the Past: New Efforts in the Reparations Debate in America
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