Select your topic by examining ideas and issues presented in the text readings. Complete a bibliography listing eight sources for the research project. For four of the eight sources use two text readings and 2 articles from the sources listed on the course web site. Use the library databases to find 4 additional resources. Annotate the sources; the annotation is a 50-75 word statement about the purpose of each source and its value for your essay. You may also comment on the writer's credibility or bias. Follow MLA style of documentation.
All sources must be ordered and formatted according to
MLA. The directions for this formatting are outlined in
Using
Modern Language Association Format, a handout from the Purdue OWL.
Use the term Works Cited for the bibliography title. For the annotation write one or two sentences describing the source's purpose
and its value to your investigation. For examples see the
sample bibliography.
http://www.qcc.mass.edu/booth/101/101bib.html
In reviewing text selections for a topic, you may select readings from two different categories.
Naomi Shahib Nye, "To Any Would-Be Terrorists"
Philip Meyer, "If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You?"
Debra Dickerson, "Who Shot Johnny?"
Martin Gansberg, "37 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police"
Jo Goodwin Parker, "What Is Poverty?"
Barbara Ehrenreich, "A Step Back to the Workhouse"
Discrimination / Gender Roles
Brent Staples, "Black Men and Public Space"
Scott Russell Sanders "Men We Carry in Our Minds"
Sandra Cisneros, "Only Daughter"
Susan Sontag, "Women’s Beauty: Put Down or Power Source"
Judy Brady, " I Want a Wife"
Judith Ortiz Cofer, "A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican
Childhood"
Health Issues
(pain control, addiction, life support,
mortality)
Norman Cousins, "Pain Is Not the Ultimate Enemy"
Barbara Huttman, "A Crime of Compassion"
Ellen Goodman, "The Company Man"
Scott Russell Sanders, "Under the Influence" (handout - see me for this)
Family and Society
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, "Where Have All the Parents Gone?"
Ellen Goodman, "The Company Man"
Debra Dickerson, "Who Shot Johnny?" (see online sources list)
Barbara Huttman, "A Crime of Compassion"
Work and Education
Scott Russell Sanders "Men We Carry in Our Minds"
Ellen Goodman, "The Company Man"
Sandra Cisneros, "Only Daughter"