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The American Century (Hamblin, HIST 325): Annotated Blbliography

This guide functions to aide students in Dr. Terry Hamblin's HIST 325 course entitled "American Century." It provides information on how to access library resources that may be relevant for the course.

Annotated Bibliography

According to Purdue's Annotated Bibliographies Guide, an annotated bibliography is a bibliography (which can be your works cited or your references page) and "includes a summary and/or evaluation of each of the source."

Essentially, you will have to read each source you find, evaluate it, summarize what you have read, and reflect on whether or not it is relevant to the topic that you are writing your paper about. There will be moments that you may read the introduction or abstract of a resource and know that you will not be able to use it, and that is okay. You should explore multiple resources, however, the final annotated bibliography does have to address the content and relevance of the source.

*Remember to look at the citation information page to learn how to get database generated citations from the library's results*

MLA Annotated Bibliography Entry Example

MLA Citation: 

Gold, Roberta. “‘I Had Not Seen Women like That Before’: Intergenerational Feminism in

         New York City’s Tenant Movement.” Feminist studies 35.2 (2009): 387–415. Print.


Evaluation of Article: 

Because I would like to talk about the positives of relationships between older and younger women feminists, this article would address the fact that creating connection between generations of women could be helpful in making social change. I also would like to support my argument of intersectional feminism as this article discusses movements that were "continued to place poor people's needs along with New York's pioneering antidiscrimination laws and ghetto housing struggles, at the top of their agenda" (Gold, 388). This indicates that women of multiple interwoven identities have been able to recognize that and work together as allies to help those who are systematically forced to live in conditions that did not benefit them. With that, I believe that this article would work well when talking about women's autonomy and ownership and how it is linked to their relationships with each other. 

APA Annotated Bibliography Entry Example

APA Citation: 

Gold, R. (2009). “I had not seen women like that before”: Intergenerational feminism

         in New York City’s tenant movement. Feminist Studies, 35(2), 387–415.

 

Evaluation of Article: 

Because I would like to talk about the positives of relationships between older and younger women feminists, this article would address the fact that creating connection between generations of women could be helpful in pioneering social change. I also would like to support my argument of intersectional feminism Gold states that these movements "continued to place poor people's needs along with New York's pioneering antidiscrimination laws and ghetto housing struggles, at the top of their agenda" (2009). This indicates that women of multiple interwoven identities have been able to recognize that and work together as allies to help those who are systematically forced to live in conditions that did not benefit them. With that, I believe that this article would work well when talking about women's autonomy and ownership and how it is linked to their relationships with each other.