COMM 101 - Fundamentals of Communication

Dr. Lee McGaan  

  Office:  WH 308  (ph. 309-457-2155);  email:  lee@monmouthcollege.edu
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Annotated Bibliography Assignment


You must submit a preliminary ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY listing sources for your COMM 101 Term Research Project

  • The bibliography must include at least EIGHT, "found using a data-base" sources (in other words, sources you find through Hewes Library data-bases) -- and as many other sources as you care to include. 

  • You must list the entries in MLA "Works Cited" format.  Use your Bedford Handbook" (from ILA/ Engl 110) to look up how to properly cite the types of sources you are including on a "Works Cited" page.  You can also find the information you need on citing sources at the web site designed to accompany your handbook.  That site is found at

MC's MLA Citation Guide

The Purdue On-line Writing Lab

  • Be sure to identify the overview source (within the annotation for that source).  CQ (Congressional Quarterly) Researcher is one way to find an overview source. (Ask me for other ideas). 

  • For each of the eight (or more) items in your bibliography, be sure to include a two to four sentence "annotation" that summarizes, in your own words, the content of the source item.

An annotation for this assginment should consists of two to four sentences in a brief paragraph below and following each of the eight or more (correctly formated) MLA citations.  Annotations summarize the content of the source.


  Smart researchers examine the references listed in the better articles they find (esp. from overview sources) in order to see if any of those references may be useful for their projects.  Useful index terms for your searches can also be discovered this way (i.e. When you do a search in Ebsco's "Academic Search Complete, "Access World News," or some other data base, what search terms are listed for one or more of the better articles?  Try those in a new search and use search terms the data base uses for those articles.).

The Annotated Bibliography is due Wednesday, 9/28.

 

 Some help  in finding "Overview Sources" electronically

On the main Hewes Library page click Research Guides, then Communication Studies then Select a Topic.

 Look at the middle column (see the entry below) and check out the third bullet point.  Try clicking on the link for “electronic encyclopedias”

Topic Ideas

 Can’t think of a topic to research? 

  • Scan your textbook for broad topic ideas.
  • Peruse current periodicals and newspapers to see what catches your eye. Periodicals are located in Hewes Library across from the coffee shop.
  • Browse print and electronic encyclopedias. Use the call number list below to find starting places.
  • Look at "hot topic" databases (see examples at right) that feature articles on current events and controversial issues.
  • Discuss potential topics with your instructor, a librarian or a classmate.

 

Also look at the right hand column and click on the link for.

 CQ (Congressional Quarterly) Researcher 

Try several of the links for topics and reports.


 

 

Last updated 9/21/2016