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Annotated Bibliography Assignment -

An annotated bibliography is a preliminary document that you use to keep track of your research findings in an orderly fashion. It is not the Works Cited page that you turn in with your final draft of the research paper; that is a separate document. Think of this as a working bibliography, or a List of Work Cited in progress.

Purpose: to keep track of your primary and secondary sources, to show your instructor that your sources are viable, to store information from your sources in case you cannot access it again online, to practice MLA formatting.

Important: Please read and/or view the resources on the website for Annotated Bibliography and Works Cited in MLA format.

Directions:

1. Plot a search strategy. Look again at the assignment prompt, and then at your proposal. What kind of information will you need to support your thesis? What kinds of sources will you need in order to find that information? Where will you look for these sources?

2. Conduct a search for minimum of four secondary sources that you could potentially use in this essay.

a. An electronic source, such as a website, an article on one of the library databases, a video, or an e-copy of a magazine or newspaper.

b. A hard copy source, such as a book, or a hard copy of a magazine or newspaper, or a dvd.

c. A field source, such as a survey, interview, etc.

Note: For the purposes of this essay, secondary sources are defined as sources about your author, or about their work or about the era in which they lived. Primary sources are the texts written by the author - their novel/s, short stories, poetry and/or song lyrics). You need at least four secondary sources and at least one primary source for this essay.

3. List your sources in alphabetical order. You don't need to separate out the primary and secondary sources. Just alphabetize by the first word of the citation.yuu

The annotated bibliography has two parts:

a. Citation: list as many of the following elements as you can. If you can't find a particular piece of information, try looking around the website, including any headers and footers.

Note: Not all of these elements will apply to all types of sources. For example, #7 on the list, Publisher, usually applies only to a book. If any of these elements does not apply to your source, or you can't find a particular piece of information, just skip it and go on to the next item. For example, if no author is listed on a source that you're using, you would skip that item and go on to list the title of the source. If one of your sources is a documentary, it won't have a container, so you would skip that item and move on to the next relevant item.

i. Author, last name first. (If there is more than one author, list them all. The first author will be listed last name first, and all others listed first name first)

ii. Title of source, in italics or quotation marks. (Use italics if the source is its own container. Use quotation marks if the source is housed within a larger container.)

iii. Title of container. (The container is a larger source that houses a smaller one. For example, if you find an article on a website, the title of the article is the Title of Source, and the website is the container. If you cite a song on an album, the song title is the Title of Source, and the album is the container.)

iv. Other contributors. (This applies to sources like films, which have multiple contributors, such as director, actors, producer, etc., or sources that have more than one editor, etc)

v. Version: (this applies to sources that have more than one edition)

vi. Number. (This applies to sources like magazines or reference books that have more than one volume)

vii. Publisher. (This applies to books, which are published by a publishing house.)

viii. Publication date. (This applies to the date of original publication, or the last update of the source, where applicable.)

ix. Location. (This applies to electronic sources that have urls, page numbers in longer works, etc)

b. Annotation: write a brief description (1-3 paragraphs) summarizing what is in the source, why you chose it, how it would help to support one of your points in the essay. If you find a great quote, you can include that here as well; it might save you some time in the long run, because you don't have to go back and try to find it again on the net or in your notes in when it comes time to write your essay.

Note: It's okay if you use a citation generating website like EasyBib. Just make sure you review the final product to make sure everything is in order. See next page for example of annotated bibliography in MLA format.

Directions to choose the topic -

1. Decide on a topic. Your topic must be at least peripherally related to what we've been discussing in class about childhood, nature, disease, technology, etc. But within those confines, you are free to choose whatever topic you wish. Some examples of possible topics:

a. Nature Based Interventions/Ecotherapy: Research one of the types of ecotherapy (for example: nature meditation, forest bathing, horticulture therapy, animal-assisted and pet therapy, ecopsychology, Kneipp therapy, biophilia, wilderness therapy, Park Rx, care farms, etc) and discuss its application to treatment of mental and/or physical disorders.

b. Nature Deficit Disorder: Research ADD/ADHD, childhood obesity, anxiety/depression or another physical and/or mental health issue associated with nature deficit disorder in children. Discuss the relationship between the identified problem and lack of exposure to nature in childhood.

c. Media Technology: Research the effect of a particular type of media technology, such as social media, video games, photoshop, aggressive movie/merchandize tie-ins, advertising and marketing techniques, etc) on the creative, mental and/or physical development of children.

d. Community Solutions: Research programs in schools, cities and other communities around the US that are designed to provide children with more exposure to nature.

e. Childhood Play: Research the different types of play identified in early childhood, and discuss the importance of free play to the creative, mental and physical development of children.

f. Mind-Body Connection: Research the most recent findings about the connection between the mind and body, and its implications for health (mental and physical)

g. Food Sourcing: Research one form of agricultural, livestock or dietary practice in the US (i.e. factory farming, agribusiness, GMOs, the organic food movement, the local food movement, veganism, etc)

h. Medical Practices: Research one type of medical intervention, for physical or mental health, in the US applied to children and/or adolescents (for example: the use of pharmaceuticals for common childhood disorders, the application of antibiotics, the vaccination controversy, the use of CBD, sex assignment and/or genital modification, diagnosis and treatment of childhood allergies, etc)

i. Educational Practices: Research a traditional (for example: standardized testing, common core, teacher-centric classrooms, homework, traditional school scheduling) or innovative (for example: project- or inquiry-based learning, flipped classrooms, etc) practice in the US and discuss its implications for childhood learning and preparation for adulthood.

j. Multiple Intelligence Theory: Research Gardiner's theory of multiple intelligences and discuss the history of its application to children in educational settings.

k. Free choice: it must be a topic connected with what we have been reading about in the book.

Attachment:- Annotated Bibliograpy Assignment File.rar