Research Essay and Annotated Bibliography At the end of this assignment 1.

Research Essay and Annotated Bibliography
At the end of this assignment
1. Students will be able to construct an argument using academic sources on a specific historical notion. Students are allowed to pick a topic that connects to the purview of the course.
2. Construct a thesis with historical judgment, using an explanation of causality or a claim about significance.
3. Construct paragraphs by theme and argument
4. Use specific evidence to support claims made in the essay.
5. Construct a concise and understandable annotated bibliography that provides depth and reason for each source used.
Basic Annotated Bibliography Guidelines

First, you need to construct a short paragraph (or two) discussing the topic of your essay and the intended argument. You need to have at least five sentences in this section. Next, you will need to construct the annotated bibliography from sources that create your case. These are sources that you have read and will use in the essay.
Create a Chicago, MLA, or APA citation of your source
Write a paragraph in which you write about what the author is arguing in your own words. Focus your section on only what you perceive his thesis and main point to be.
Within your paragraph provide examples of two techniques or strategies the writer uses to argue his or her point(s).
Within your paragraph discuss how convincing you find the author.
Three sources need to be listed.

Example:
Examples are from my breast cancer project.

Buying the Breast, Selling the Cure: Commodifying Breast Cancer Research and Easing Consumer Guilt

Annessa Ann Babic, PhD
Freelance writer and Independent Scholar

Fifty years is a long time to linger. Fifty years is how long it has been since the Food and Drug Administration approved a new drug and treatment for Lupus. Lupus, an autoimmune disorder with no known cause or cure, primarily affects women (ninety percent of those with the disease). In 2002 US Centers for Disease Control reported that deaths related to Lupus increased in a twenty-year period.[1] These raw numbers show a disease without progress, and an excursion deeper into Lupus literature shows a condition with symptoms as varied as skin rashes, headaches, anemia, fatigue, memory loss, vision loss, joint and muscle pain, and the list continues. Lupus is a varied disease, with many faces and victims. Lupus also remains a misunderstood disease, often overlooked, and even ignored. In contrast, the nation’s number one killer of women is heart disease.
The image of the pink ribbon abounds in the cultural forefront; surpassing red for heart awareness and AIDS. Why have that cancer “products” have taken such a prominent place on the American consumer market? In this culture of consumption, with abundant ready-made goods, current trends continually show the rise of buying to ease the bourgeois guilt. Looking at the evolution of the breast cancer awareness campaign, the research funding, and the raising of money via products often not related to cancer uses and ethnographic and historical approach to show how activist buying has been removed from the federal government to the company. Moreover, the popularity of breast cancer merchandise plays directly into conceptions of the body and perceptions of beauty.

[1] Lupus. Org. http://www.lupus.org/webmodules/webarticlesnet/templates/new_newsroomreporters.aspx?articleid=247&zoneid=60; US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Trends in Deaths from Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: the United States, 1979-1998,” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 51.17 (. 3 May 2002):371-4.
Marchetto, Marisa Acocella. Cancer Vixen: A True Story. New York and Toronto: Alfred A Knopf, 2006.
This non-academic source—or more precisely a graphic memoir—takes the reader on a humorous journey of breast cancer. The author, Marisa Acocella Marchetto, is a visual freelance graphic artist, the daughter of a shoe designer, and a New Yorker. These tidbits play into the humor, anger, and determination of her story. Throughout she takes her reader on her adventures and mishaps with dating—and getting married—chemotherapy, not having health insurance, and finding conventional and unconventional ways to overcome breast cancer. Overall, a highly entertaining read, bright colors, female orientated, lots of pinks, purple, and high heels alongside names like M.A.C. and Dolce Gabanna. Side note, purchased at Bath and Body works during its October Breast Cancer display.
Mike’s Hard Pink Lemonade, seasonal edition. Product packaging. October 2006. Purchased in Blacksburg, VA.
The packaging for Mike’s Lemonade change to hot pink and black for the October Breast Cancer push. Irony: pink lemonade as a seasonal purchase should be for the summer . . . Not the fall. Nonacademic, obviously.
King, Samantha. “An All-Consuming Cause: Breast Cancer, Corporate Philanthropy, and the Market for Generosity,” in Social Text 69. 19:4 (Winter 2001): 115-143.
This academic study looks at the sudden rise of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation as a pioneer in cause-related marketing. More so, the article walks the reader through products for breast cancer like bras, cars, Avon, the make-up of all brands and kinds, and the NFL. “Rather, it is that cause-related marketing has emerged as a technique by which to understand, represent, and act upon the desires of consumers to be generous and civic-minded citizens, albeit in ways that are ultimately profitable for corporations” stands as King’s central thesis (116). Here excellent accounting of corporate America and the Regan administration’s push for “corporate volunteerism” steer the reader through relevant statistics and roughly fifty years of evolution about women’s breast and health care.