Annotated bibliography
This assignment is due on March 18. It will not be submitted through SafeAssign.
You must produce an annotated bibliography containing two entries.
In preparation for your research essay, you must find two peer-reviewed, academic sources that you will probably use and
respond to in your research essay. For this assignment, you need to write two short paragraphs for each of these two
sources. The first paragraph is a brief summary of the source: it should include an account of what the source is about
and what its main argument is. This paragraph should be paraphrase only: use only your own words. The second paragraph
is a brief account of how you might be using the source in your research essay: you may here need to identify a secondary
argument from the source. Indicate whether you will be, for example, applying what is said to your argument, or
demonstrating that the argument is in opposition to or problematic with what your essay will be arguing, or using the
argument of one source to show conflicts with another source. Note that it is not sufficient to say that you will be
using the data/facts/information/background provided by the essay: you need to indicate how you will be interacting
with the source’s argument(s).
For this assignment, you may not use the essay “Feminism, the Taliban, and Politics of Counter-Insurgency” by Charles Hirschkind and Saba Mahmood.
Penalty: 20 points if one of the entries is not of an academic, peer-reviewed source.
Penalty: 40 points if both of the entries are not of academic, peer-reviewed sources.
Penalty: up to 20 points for missing, inaccurate, or poorly formatted bibliographic information.
You can consult the Purdue Online Writing Lab for information about preparing
annotated bibliographies. The OWL includes samples.
As always, identify quotations accurately. There is no need to use any other source than the two you are annotating. Format
your bibliography according to MLA, APA, or Chicago rules.
As always, use double-space lineation, one-inch margins, and the Times New Roman font, 12-point in size.