Instructions: You must have at least 8 scholarly sources. Each annotation must contain a bibliographic citation of the source in APSA format and an annotation of approximately 200-350 words (less than 200 is too short). Your annotations should concisely summarize the central arguments/findings of the text and mention the methods that were used. Be sure to choose sources that
speak to your research questionand highlight how they do so in your annotation.
Read this piece for guidance on how to construct an annotated bibliography:Baglione,
Writing a Research Paper in Political Science, chapter 3pages57-71.
My Research Question: Why are the main victims of police brutality African Americans?
1 s6 CHAPTER 3 Learning Proper Citation Forms, Finding the Scholarly Debate, and Summarizing the AB, you're trying to uncover the most important arguments or answers to your question, so you want to find cholarly journals. Sometimes the journals of opinion, news articles, and/or editorials t..hat helped you formulate your question are also relevant, and you can srunmarize them, but remember these alone are not sufficient. Too often, students rely too heavily on new ·paper or popular magazine (e.g., US. News & World Report, Time, Newsweek, The Economist) articles. In your database searching, use these author names as well as those of some of the people you found in your book search to find new and excellent scholarly sources. These are the academic giants on whose shoulders you will stand. To find these, begin searching databases that index journals, or if your search through books has already helped you identify some key articles or authors who make competing arguments, use the databases to find them. We've already become acquainted with some of these library databases from our work developing the Research Question. I frequently suggest that my stu dents start in Academic Search Premier and ProQuest ( under "Research Libraries"). I like these because they index a number of scholarly journals, and they usually have very recent issues online. As mentioned before, other useful databases include Project MUSE and JSTOR, but be careful with JSTOR, because there is a delay in bringing materials online. When you search, you will want to use all that you have learned before to help you find appropriate sources. Search using your key concept (from your question), the names of the authors you found (in your texts or from the LoC earch), and the additional subject terms you turned up in your earlier efforts. Then, use those terms and similar techniques to return just the right number of good sources. What' nice about database earching is that you can also read an abstract of an article and get a sense of the argument and the article's utility before you read the whole work. You can also easily export these articles and citations into Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote and get a copy of the citation, often in the correct form. Use the abstracts to help you choose the best articles (be very careful not to plagiarize here!). nee you have picked a manageable number of good sources, you wLll have to read them and write original sum maries for the AB, wnmaries that help you under tand not only what the authors are arguing but whom they are arguing against, whom they agree with, and how they came to their conclusions. Ultimately, these summaries will allow you to make groups of similar sources. IDENTIFYING SIMILAR ARGUMENTS AND GROUPING YOUR SOURCES When you are working on your AB, I recommend that you create a new docu ment that will contain both the source information and the summary para graphs and ultimately become your AB. In this document, you wiJI play around with, in violation of the bibliographic conventions, your source list, From: Baglione, Lisa A. 2016. Writing A Research Paper in Political Science: A Practical Guide to Inquiry, Structure, and Methods. 3rd ed. Los Angeles, CA: Sage/CQ Press. Baglione pages 57-73 Guidance Baglione’s tips: · Managing your research: · Create a new document to contain citations and summary paragraphs. Put all your research in this one document. · Use RefWorks to manage your citations. · Choosing sources: · Stay focused on your Research Question! Avoid falling down rabbit holes of tangentially-related discussions. · Your goal is to map the overall debate on your RQ. Don’t get stuck on only one set of answers. You should aim for breadth and endeavor to capture the contours of the debate. · Grouping sources: · Group sources that make similar arguments (“schools of thought”). · This will allow you to see if you have multiple answers to your RQ and to identify the essentials of those answers. · Note: DO NOT make up your own labels for schools of thought! Use the same labels and terminology used by the literature. · Writing summaries: · Write both a short and a long summary for each source. Your short summary should sum up the piece’s contribution to answering your RQ in 1-2 sentences. Your long summary should provide more detail on the author’s argument and be a paragraph long. · Be sure to stay focused on your sources’ relations to your RQ. Your summaries should reflect authors’ answers to your RQ, rather than being exhaustive accounts of their overall arguments. · Summarize answers in your own words! Paraphrasing at this early point helps to avoid plagiarism down the line and allows you to write summaries that can then be used directly in your literature review. · Use the examples in Baglione as models for how to write summaries. Her examples are fantastic. · Overall process: “She carefully locates the theses of her sources, paraphrases them, thinks deeply about the fundamental factors they were identifying, rethinks, and revises her work, and then begins writing up her entries.” (64) · Goal: To have a broad overview of the scholarly answers to your RQ · Having an incomplete understanding of the relevant scholarship will hamper your proposal development. · Expect to spend a good deal of time trying to understand and map the scholarship. The more experience you have doing it, the more efficient you will become. · Use this process of finding, evaluating, and curating sources to help you refine your RQ.