Unit III Annotated Bibliography
Purpose:
The purpose of the Annotated Bibliography is to summarize the sources that you have gathered to
support your Research Proposal project. These summaries help you to think about the complex
arguments presented in your sources and the massive information therein in terms of short, digestible
articulations. In addition, these summaries will likely form the basis for Draft 1 of your Research Paper
(the review of literature) that you will complete in Unit IV, which is largely comprised of summaries that
are transitioned together and that form a conversation about the issue.
In this assignment, you will create an Annotated Bibliography consisting of five sources. Each entry will
consist of a reference list citation that precedes a 100-150 word summary of the source. If each of the five
entries is less than the word count, it is likely you have not fully developed your summary, and this lack of
development can severely impact your grade for this assignment. Your Annotated Bibliography will
include the elements listed below.
Elements:
Your Annotated Bibliography must contain specific elements.
1. Cover page and APA formatting:
You will include an APA-style cover page for your Annotated Bibliography. See the example in The CSU
APA Guide (6th edition) on page 16. Your cover page should include the following: the title, your name,
and the name of your university (Columbia Southern University). Your title will appear in the running head
which should include up to 50 characters from the title of the paper, along with a sequential page number
in the upper right-hand corner. The following conventions should be followed as well. See the Annotated
Bibliography example (linked below) for
guidance:
The entries should be ordered in alphabetical order according to the first substantive word in the
reference list citation.
• The entire Annotated Bibliography should be double-spaced, with no additional spaces between entries.
• No reference list should be included with the Annotated Bibliography, as the entries themselves will
contain the reference list citation information.
• The first line of each reference list citation should be flush left with the left-hand margin (no indentation),
and the second and proceeding lines should be indented ½” from the left-hand margin (hanging indent of
one-half inch).
• The summary paragraph begins on the line following the end of the reference. It lines up with the
indented portion of the reference, with the exception that the first line is indented an additional one-half
inch. (Look at the example to see how this formats.)
2. Entries:
Each of the five entries should begin with a reference list citation in APA format and be followed by a 100150 word summary of the source’s information. An Annotated Bibliography summary should include the
most important information from the text. Sometimes, this means that you will broadly summarize larger
portions of text (as in main ideas of a whole essay); other times, this means that you will focus on
summarizing.
Running head: TITLE OF PAPER
1
Title of the Paper
Student’s Name
Columbia Southern University
TITLE OF PAPER
2
Title of the Paper
Armstrong, C. (1996). Deborah Tannen comes to class: Implications of gender and conversation
in the classroom. English Journal, 85(2), 15.
In a conversation with a male student, Armstrong thought she was being “helpful”
and “supportive” when she “nodded vigorously” and punctuated his words with “yes.”
The male thought she was “rude” and “intrusive.” Concerned at the failure of the
conversation, Armstrong read Deborah Tanner’s You Just Don’t Understand, which
helped Armstrong understand the ways men and women interrupt each other. Men see
interruptions as “conversational bullying.” Women see them as “cooperative
overlapping.” What Armstrong thought was support and involvement the male student
saw as manipulation.
Gergen, M. (2001, June 6). Book review: Talking difference: On gender and language [by M.
Crawford]. Archives of Sexual Behavior 30(3), 338. Retrieved from InfoTrac database.
In her review of Crawford’s book, Gergen suggests that the “differences between
the ways men and women talk suggest that we might as well have come from different
planets.” Today, some view it as necessary to take a quick course in conversational
translations. Gergen says Crawford made in-depth inquiries into issues of how
conversation affects relations, power, and discrimination.
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