4.2 Assignment
Theme: Privacy and technology
Topic: The Invasion of privacy and technology
Who is impacted by the issues related to your topic:
Your personal experience with the topic and any personal context areas you think are relevant to your perspective (see Assignment 1.4 for the original Personal Context Assignment):
At least 5 information questions related to your topic:
Your main issue question:
Search terms you will use:
Your current opinion on the issue question:
4.3 Assignment
Objectives:
Instructions:
I attached the question for this part
Annotated Bibliography
4.4 Annotated Bibliography
Objectives:
Practice searching for and evaluating appropriate sources
Summarize sources that may be used in your research paper
compile an annotated bibliography on a topic
Instructions:
Annotate 5 sources on your topic proposed earlier (See Topic Proposal). For each entry include complete citation information and a brief summary and evaluation paragraph (about 100 words) covering these areas:
In the sample annotation below, the writer includes three paragraphs: a summary, an evaluation of the text, and a reflection on its applicability to his/her own research, respectively.
Five sources attached
Sample MLA Annotation
Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. Anchor Books, 1995.
Lamott’s book offers honest advice on the nature of a writing life, complete with its insecurities and failures. Taking a humorous approach to the realities of being a writer, the chapters in Lamott’s book are wry and anecdotal and offer advice on everything from plot development to jealousy, from perfectionism to struggling with one’s own internal critic.
In the process, Lamott includes writing exercises designed to be both productive and fun. Lamott offers sane advice for those struggling with the anxieties of writing, but her main project seems to be offering the reader a reality check regarding writing, publishing, and struggling with one’s own imperfect humanity in the process. Rather than a practical handbook to producing and/or publishing, this text is indispensable because of its honest perspective, its down-to-earth humor, and its encouraging approach.
Chapters in this text could easily be included in the curriculum for a writing class. Several of the chapters in Part 1 address the writing process and would serve to generate discussion on students’ own drafting and revising processes. Some of the writing exercises would also be appropriate for generating classroom writing exercises. Students should find Lamott’s style both engaging and enjoyable.