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Students will be developing an annotated bibliography based on a subtopic in American Popular culture that is of interest to them. A minimum of 3 peer-reviewed sources and 4 popular and/or open-web sources will need to be used in the bibliography.

The completed assignment will include:

1) Identify subtopic in American Popular Culture that you chose to investigate for this assignment. (eg. sport and popular culture)
2) List search terms you used in your searches (i.e. sport, sociology, "popular culture")
3) Annotated entries for a minimum of 3 peer-reviewed articles (see below for what should be included in each entry)
4) Annotated entries for a minimum of 4 popular and/or open-web sources

Each source entry should be in a table format and include the following:

1) APA-formatted full reference for the source
2) Brief description of the source
3) Brief discussion of how the source is relevant to your subtopic of interest and why you chose it.
4) Evaluation of where the source came from - i.e. peer-reviewed journal, blog, website, etc.
5) Evaluation of strengths and weaknesses regarding how helpful the source was in addressing your subtopic of interest.
6) Comparative analysis - compare/contrast how this source addresses your subtopic of interest in comparison to another source (note: no source should be used in this section more than twice)