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LING 599 VNL Seminar Annotated bibliography requirements Please read the general information about annotated bibliographies on the Purdue OWL site Start at: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/ There are several pages, so keep clicking Next at the bottom of the page There are some sample annotations there as well The purpose of this assignment is for you to read widely around your tentative thesis topic so that you have a good idea of what the issues are around your topic and what kind of research is already published If you read widely and carefully it should help you find the research gap You not have to go to the next stage, which is a literature review You will that next semester But when preparing a literature review, you first need to know what other researchers have said about your topic Wide reading is needed at this stage If you have some tentative research questions, this will help you search using keywords, but you should not go too narrow too quickly The Annotated Bibliography is a list of published materials that are relevant to your topic You will eventually arrange the most relevant of these into a literature review (You will also want to add other articles and books to the lit review – but this is a start) Think about these questions: What is known already about my topic? Are there any important books (monographs or edited collections) on my topic that should be consulted? What research articles are there? What differing opinions are out there? How to organize the Annotated Bibliography Provide a meaningful title for your A.Bib that reflects your proposed research area Organize alphabetically by first-mentioned author’s surname Provide the full APA citation as a sub-heading for each entry You should bold this citation so we can easily see the different entries Write a good paragraph (using your own words) on each source The number of words will vary- some will be just a few lines, others, a few hundred words, but as a general guide, aim for 250 words per entry I want 10 good sources! Build your annotation around answering these questions: What is this text about? (summarize) What is the scope of the text? (i.e how broad, how detailed?) Is the source important because of theory, research methods, research findings, controversy, or something else? How useful is it likely to be to my research?