Annotations!

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For your annotations, keep in mind the banned topics list:

euthanasia, abortion, gun control, dry/wet Lubbock county, parking at Tech, lack of rain drainage at Tech, steroids, immigration, childhood obesity, anorexia [thin models], school funding, homosexual marriage and/or adoption, standardized testing, hazing, capital punishment, smoking, marijuana and other recreational drugs, ADD/ADHD and evils of Ritalin, paying college athletes, affirmative action, the 10 Percent Rule [college admission], television violence, prayer in schools.

Start thinking about your topic for your 1.2 literature review. Make your research for this week count twice!

Here is a sample annotation:

Gardner, Philip, ed. E.M. Forster: The Critical Heritage. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973.
This book contains nearly 200 reviews of Forster’s various novels. Each of the reviews collected in this edition were published within 15 years of each novel’s publication. The vast majority were published within the year of the initial publication. For A Passage to India, Gardner has collected 39 different book reviews. Of these, 35 were written or published (as one is a letter that was not published until after the author’s death) in 1924, the year A Passage to India was first published. This book is meant for students and scholars of literature who are investigating the contemporary reception of Forster. Keywords: Contemporary Review.

This is an annotation that I did for a class. It isn't necessarily perfect. Be sure that your annotation includes an explanation of the author's thesis/argument, a brief summary, an analysis of the accuracy and quality of the source, the relevance for your paper, and the intended audience. ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE NECESSARY!

Remember to use the Bedford Bibliographer to put together your annotated bibliography. You can do all of your work here! It will organize for you! Also, take a look at the "citation help" link on the right.