Assignment: Annotated Bibliography

Required Readings for Module 4

  • “The Flight from Conversation” by Sherry Turkle, online here: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/the-flight-from-conversation.htmlLinks
  • “Even Just the Presences of a Smartphone Lowers the Quality of In-Person Conversations” by Tom Jacobs, online here: https://psmag.com/social-justice/presence-smart-phone-lowers-quality-person-conversations-85805
  • “Technology is Destroying the Quality of Human Interaction” by Melissa Nilles, online here: https://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/2012/01/technology-is-destroying-the-quality-of-human-interaction

Overview
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This assignment As necessary precursor to the source-based essay, the final essay for our class. This assignmeM asks you to evaluate the three sources from the readings M week 4 and to demontirate the conventions of research documentation.

Guideline and Expectations
Before completing this msignment, you may want to take a look back at the lecture on the purpose of an annotated bibliography and how to format it, as well as your notes on the readings from this week It is important to remember that the goal of writing an annotated bibliography is not only to ensure that you loam to properly write citations but also to make sure that you are learning about research practices.
Annotated bibliographies help writers to organize their research and to begin with the information they have found through researching by summarizing and paraphrasing the key arguments they have found.
An annotated bibliography is similar to a References page, but in addition to the APA citation for each entry, it also includes a statement that explains what the source is about, a brief summary of the information found in the article, and how this information connects to your own research project. Annotations are typically about five sentences each.

Deliverables
Your annotated bibliography must include entries for all three articles from week 4. Each entry must include the full APA citation and annotation
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