The paper’s thesis isnt established entirely. It will be along the lines of; How did Fidel Castro’s student politics help him gain popularity and support with the cuban people. What other platforms did Castro use to gain further support and eventually mobilize citizens to revolt.
Goal: In this assignment, you will articulate your subject, question, and a possible thesis for your project; demonstrate your ability to find, using relevant technology, relevant secondary sources; identify and evaluate the evidence and arguments of those secondary sources; and begin to synthesize and analyze them in such a way as will form the basis of your project.
Assemble a bibliography of eight scholarly secondary sources. You will be unlikely to find secondary sources (or at least more than one source) specifically on [exactly your topic] in [the primary source(s) you are looking at]. Instead, you will need to read a few secondary sources on your text (or genre) and a larger number of secondary sources on your theme at the time and place that your text was written. Read these sources carefully. Then write your annotated bibliography as follows:
- Begin with a paragraph detailing how you approach your research question; that is, what is your topic, what is your question, and what do you think your thesis might be. Including your working thesis is important! It might change, but you should have developed one at this point.
- The sources you select should demonstrate your ability to find the best sources. That means
- They should all be scholarly secondary sources.
- At least two should be from after the year 2000 (so that you have some recent scholarship and bibliographic leads)
- They should all be clearly relevant (or you had reason to think they would be when you read them)
- They represent different types of scholarly materials, including monographs, chapters in edited volumes, and journal articles)
- Summarize your reading to this point in an eight-item annotated bibliography. Each annotation should include
- Accurate bibliography according to the Chicago Manual of Style (see the resources folder on Canvas or use Zotero)
- The topic, question, and thesis of the piece.
- The evidence that the author uses.
- How the piece relates to others on your bibliography.
- Your evaluation of the author’s argument.
- How you see this fitting into your paper