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• Demonstrate research planning
• Demonstrate writing process
• Determine and describe search strategies using MC library databases
• Select appropriate sources from MC library databases
• Demonstrate MLA documentation

Instructions:Before you start, watch “Explore & Narrow Your Topic with Opposing Viewpoints” and “ENGL 102/103: Developing a Search Strategy” (both by MC Libraries). These videos will help you get basic information on your topic and determine whether the topic you want to explore is feasible for the assignments in the course. The parts of the topic proposal that overlap with the 4.1 Discussion should reflect any revisions you’ve made to the issue and information questions since posting them, or, if you have decided to change topics and/or issue questions, you can submit completely new ones in this assignment. FORMAL TOPIC PROPOSALTheme:Topic:Who is impacted by the issues related to your topic:Your personal context (experience, values and other areas relevant to your perspective). See Assignment 1.4 for the original Personal Context Assignment.Your main issue question:At least 5 information questions related to your topic:Search terms you will use:Your current opinion on the issue question:Three (3) complete and correctly formatted MLA citations for sources accessed through library databases and written for a general audience on your topic. You don’t need to have read them, and you’re not required to use them, but this list will ensure that you can find source material on your topic.Three (3) complete and correctly formatted MLA citations for three SCHOLARLY sources accessed through library databases. Again, you don’t need to have read them, and you’re not required to use these particular sources, but this list will ensure that there is source material available on your topic. Due: Sunday, Week 4
Where do I post my work? After drafting and saving your work in Word, please open the submission window (click on “Write Submission”), then cut and paste your work from your Word document right into the submission box below in the Assignments tool. Please, do NOT submit an attachment and do NOT paste your work in the Comments window. Please make sure all formatting remains intact.If you are not sure how to submit your work, please review the Guidelines for Submitting Assignments video located HERE.Image Source: “Kids. . . Disturbing Mom Working” by Ketut Subiyanto licensed as free to use no attribution needed

4.3 Assignment

4.3 AssignmentObjectives:

• Define plagiarism.
• Determine when material from a source needs to be cited.

Instructions:

1. Read Chapter 11 of Practical Argument.
2. Do Exercise 11.1 in Chapter 11, page 358
3. Do Exercise 11.2, page 358. Notice that it asks you to work with the editorial article on pages 359-360 and identify pieces of information from the article.

Tips:In order to complete the exercises correctly, you should know the answers to these questions (do NOT answer them in writing):

• What is plagiarism?
• What are some examples of deliberate plagiarism?
• What are some examples of plagiarizing without intending to?
• What is common knowledge?
• If you use an image or chart from the Internet in a presentation, do you have to give credit?
• If you put a source’s ideas into your own words, do you need to document the source?
• If you look for ideas on the Internet and use them in an essay, have you plagiarized if you don’t remember where you saw the ideas you used?

Due: Sunday, Week 4Where do I post my work? After drafting and saving your work in Word, please open the submission window (click on “Write Submission”), then cut and paste your work from your Word document right into the submission box below in the Assignments tool. Please, do NOT submit an attachment and do NOT paste your work in the Comments window.

4.4 Annotated Bibliography

4.4 Annotated Bibliography Assignment

Objectives:

• Use MC Library databases and the Internet to conduct search
• Select appropriate sources using evaluation criteria
• Summarize, assess, and reflect on sources
• practice MLA documentation

Instructions:
First, review the link to Library Resources on the Course Content page for help with conducting research, evaluating sources, and other MLA formatting questions that you may have. Second, read about annotated bibliographies and see visual examples on Purdue OWL website.Third, annotate 5 sources on your topic proposed in the earlier assignment (Topic Proposal). For each entry include complete citation information and a brief summary and evaluation paragraph (about 100 words) covering these areas:

1. Three main points of the information in the source or the arguable position presented in the source.
2. An evaluative statement on the accuracy, credibility, objectivity, currency, comprehensiveness, and authority of the source (see pp. 289-294).
3. How this source helps you understand the issue, if it supports your prediction about the issue or makes you look at the issue differently.
4. Your main reason for choosing this source.

Note: Later, in your essay, you will be able to use up to two sources you used earlier in the course. For this assignment, please find five new sources.

Make sure your Annotated Bibliography follows standard MLA formatting and that each entry includes an annotation.

*See the following page for tips on annotating your sources.

Due: Sunday, Week 4

Where do I post my work? After drafting and saving your work in Word, please open the submission window (click on “Write Submission”), then cut and paste your work from your Word document right into the submission box below in the Assignments tool. Please, do NOT submit an attachment and do NOT paste your work in the Comments window. Please make sure all formatting remains intact.If you are not sure how to submit your work, please review the Guidelines for Submitting Assignments page located in Start Here folder in Course Content. Submission steps are outlined and illustrated there. Image source: “Person Writing on Sticky Notes” free stock photo by Bruno Bueno licensed as free to use no attribution required

How to Write an Annotated Bibliography

How to Write an Annotated BibliographyHow to Write an Annotated Bibliography

An annotated bibliography is a genre of academic writing intended to give specific information to a particular audience. For this reason, there is no one “right way” to do an annotated bibliography that will work for all classes, instructors, or rhetorical situations. Instead, you should write annotated bibliographies with some thought to the length, amount of detail, and type of commentary your audience needs or expects.That said, annotated bibliographies have some common characteristics. To annotate a bibliography means to include critical commentary about each work on the list, usually in one or two short paragraphs. Each annotation should contain the following:

• A complete MLA citation (if you don’t have a writer’s handbook, please refer to MC’s page on 2016 MLA citations).
• Three main points of the information in the source or the arguable position presented in the source.
• An evaluative statement on the accuracy, credibility, objectivity, currency, comprehensiveness, and authority of the source (see pages 289-294).
• How this source helps you understand the issue, if it supports your prediction about the issue or makes you look at the issue differently.
• Your main reason for choosing this source.

Example:

Ames, Katrine. “Last Rights.” Newsweek, 26 Aug. 1991, pp. 40-41.

This is a news article for the general public about the popularity of a book called Final Exit, on how to commit suicide. Ames explains the interest in the book as resulting from people’s perception that doctors, technology, and hospital bureaucrats are making it harder and harder to die with dignity in this country. The article documents with statistics the direction of public opinion on this topic and also outlines some options, besides suicide, that are becoming available to ensure people of the right to die. Ames shows a bias against prolonging life through technology, but she includes quotations from authorities on both sides. This is a good source of evidence about public and professional opinion.

-This sample is from The Aims of Argument by Timothy Crusius and Carolyn Channell.

Please view the following link for more information about writing an annotated bibliography:

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/common_writing_assignments/annotated_bibliographies/index.htm