Annotated References

For this assignment, you will create a list of three college-level sources you are likely to use in your Research Paper and add a brief annotation (fancy word for note) for each item. The annotation should be a 150-200 word paragraph in which you summarize the source and explain briefly how it fits in with your topic/thesis. Do not use the official abstract, which won't explain how you plan to use the sources in your paper. One of the items should be from a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, the kind you find on library databases. Note: You do not have to use these exact sources in your paper. You can add more sources and you can replace sources that don’t fit in once you start to organize your thoughts and write.

For scholarly journal articles found on the Academic Search Premier site through the De Anza Library, you can click on "Cite" to find the APA-style reference. Formats for books and other sources can be found on the OWL site or the Bedford-St. Martin site.

An APA-style annotated reference list might look like this. Note that items in an APA-style References list are in alphabetic order and are formatted as hanging indent (first line sticks out). In WORD, use format-paragraph-indentation-special to create a hanging indent. Use the arrow key or tab to indent the annotation.

WORKING TITLE OF YOUR PAPER HERE

Annotated References

Checkley, K. (1997, September). The first seven . . . and the eighth: A conversation

with Howard Gardner. Educational Leadership, 55, 8‐13.

In this interview, Gardner discusses criteria for determining the intelligences, highlights the Naturalist Intelligence, and explodes a number of myths about multiple intelligences theory. He distinguishes between learning styles and multiple intelligences. This distinction has helped me in my teaching, looking at how children respond to different learning situations.

Ehrenreich, B. (2001). Nickel and dimed: On (not) getting by in America. New York: Henry Holt and Company.

In this book of nonfiction based on the journalist's experiential research, Ehrenreich, a journalist, takes jobs as a waitress, a maid in a cleaning service, and a Wal-Mart sales employee to ascertain whether it is possible to live on minimum wate. The author is forthcoming about her unorthodox research methods and supplements her experiences with scholarly research on her places of employment, the economy, and the rising cost of living in America. I will use her description of working as a waitress to contrast with depictions of waitresses on TV shows from the 1950s to the 2000s.

Gardner, H. (Writer), & DiNozzi, R. (Producer/Director). (1996). MI: Intelligence,

understanding and the mind [Motion picture]. Los Angeles: Into the Classroom Media.

Gardner presents his theory of multiple intelligences, outlining the original seven as well as the eighth, Addressing these intelligences in the classroom gives more students access to profound understandings rather than mere factual knowledge. I enjoyed seeing Gardner ʺin personʺ _and found new insight into the issues of learning for understanding.

Waite, L. J., Goldschneider, F. K., & Witsberger, C. (1986). Nonfamily living and the erosion of traditional family orientations among young adults. American Sociological Review, 51, 541-554. The authors, researchers at the Rand Corporation and Brown University, use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Young Women and Young Men to test their hypothesis that nonfamily living by young adults alters their attitudes, values, plans, and expectations, moving them away from their belief in traditional sex roles. They find their hypothesis strongly supported in young females, while the effects were fewer in studies of young males.