Locate as many works of criticism or scholarship as you can that might be relevant to your topic. Find a mixture of books, journal articles, web pages, and internet sources. Avail yourself of the various research databases MCCC has access to and that you will review in the tutorial as part of the work in this Unit. Once you’ve found one or two sources, consider “mining” their own bibliographies for possible appropriate sources. To find sources on your text and ideas you will need to “think laterally.” What I mean by that is this: say you choose the TV show Bob’s Burgers to write about. You will not find many journal article or books about this subject. However, you will find books and journal articles about mystery shows, and streaming, about gender and race and television, about TV in the 2020s, about family relationships, and about a host of other subjects that can be related to the show. So, for your searching, do not limit yourself to the show title or just to the simple words used in your initial thesis; use the words and ideas generated in your first assignment to help you find other things that you can relate to the text you are writing about and the move out from there. Look for writings about the type of text you are looking at, the history of the moment your text is from, or other ideas that come to you. Look for anything and everything that may be related to what you are writing about. After That After some research, you should begin to select sources for your bibliography. You should select eight (8) sources to list in your annotated bibliography. Select the eight (8) you think you are most likely to use going forward. There are some requirements, though, on the eight you choose. Of the eight: Only three of the eight can be “internet” or non-academic sources, meaning web pages, blog posts, or other non-academic sources. That means at least five of the sources added to the list for each student need to be academic/scholarly journal articles or books. These will need to be found through the library databases and catalog, or through those of another college library. Again, you will have eight sources in your bibliography, which will be listed in alphabetical order as an MLA works cited page would be. Putting it Together First, put the eight sources you chose for the assignment into an MLA style works cited page. This should form the basis of your work. Then, you will have two kinds of annotations to complete for this assignment: Summaries: You will write summaries of four (4) of your sources. Decide which four sources sound the most promising or interesting and look at them up close. You don’t need to read these four books or articles all the way through. Look at introductions and conclusions and skim through the rest. Try to get a sense of the argument and approach of each of the pieces of scholarship. Synthesize what you learn about each of the texts, and record your findings as a short paragraph, not more than five or six sentences, about the source. This paragraph should be located immediately after the source you are summarizing. Think of this paragraph as your capsule description of the book or article, highlighting what is most worth mentioning about the piece of scholarship. They should give you (or another researcher looking at your bibliography) a snapshot of the source. You do not need to discuss how you will use your sources in your papers. Answering Questions: You will compose answers to the following questions for one source. Out of the four sources you wrote a summary for, select one academic/scholarly article (not book, not web page) to read thoroughly. This should be the source that you think will almost certainly be used as you move forward. Write a one to two page response in which you answer these questions: Who is the article’s intended audience? That is, specialists, the general public, scholars with certain interests, something else entirely? What’s your response to the article’s argument — do you find it persuasive, unpersuasive, interesting, uninteresting? Explain your response. Refer to details from the article in your response. What do you notice about the article’s methodology — the kinds of evidence the writer draws on and the critical approach the writer takes in framing a question or problem to analyze? How does the scholar situate his or her argument in relationship to other critics? That is, does the scholar write to undercut x’s argument, or to build on y’s argument, or in agreement with z’s argument? How does the argument signal its participation in a larger critical conversation? What questions come to mind as you read the article? You do not need to answer these questions. This response does not need to be in an essay format and should appear after the summary of the source you are writing about. Criteria You will be graded on the following criteria in this paper. Your ability to: Provide citations in proper MLA format Summarize sources effectively Summarize sources for use in developing a research paper Develop an in-depth response to an article Write with attention to grammar