Bibliography Components: 1. Working Title A working title simply means a title

Bibliography Components:

1. Working Title
A working title simply means a title for your project that best describes what it is all about. The title should be descriiptive and crisp. You want to grab your reader’s attention. Therefore, it has to be both interesting and inviting. The reason why it has been called a “working title” is that you may change it if needed, as you progress through reading the literature, writing your annotated Bibliography, and getting a better sense of the material.
2. Thesis Statement
A thesis statement is a one or two-sentence statement of the position you are taking in the analysis that will follow. This is the most critical (and creative) part of the writing process.
A. Why Should Your Proposal Contain a Thesis Statement?
• To test your ideas by distilling them into a sentence or two
• To better focus, organize, and develop your position on the subject
• To provide your reader with a “guide” to your argument
Your thesis statement will accomplish these goals if you think of the thesis as the answer to the question your paper explores.
B. How Can You Write a Good Thesis Statement?
Here are some helpful hints to get you started. Your thesis statement needs to answer a question about the issue you would like to explore. In this situation, your job is to figure out what problem you would like to write about. A good thesis statement will usually include the following four attributes:
Take on a subject upon which reasonable people could disagree
Deal with an issue that you can adequately complete given the nature of the assignment
Express one main idea
Assert your conclusions about a subject
Summary of the Bibliography:
You will be creating a project with a working title, a thesis statement, and an annotated bibliography of 10 sources. You will also be doing an online presentation of your findings. You will be using the American Psychological Association (APA) format for your Bibliography. You must use this format consistently for each citation. Your Bibliography will be turned in through this Dropbox.
I will not give credit for descriiptive or evaluative information copied from another source. In other words, if you find a book review and copy this review to serve as your annotation, you will not receive credit. Such work is plagiarism, and I will take further action. You will lose credit if citations are not in APA format. In other words, if you copy a citation from the library’s catalog or a database and do not attempt to format the citation in APA format, you will not receive credit.
Your Bibliography will be due before your online presentation (see the calendar for the exact due date). Your final Bibliography will consist of The Title, Your Thesis Statement, and a minimum of ten annotated bibliographic references (a minimum of two websites, six refereed journal articles, and two books). As you will be using only ten sources as the foundation for your online presentation, you must pick credible and substantive websites, articles, and books for your Bibliography that directly deal with your research question.
Working Title
Thesis Statement
Full Citation (APA—minimum of 2 websites, six journal articles, two books)
Annotation (single-spaced)
Include section heading: “Books”, “Websites”, and “Articles.”
Within each heading, alphabetize your citations with annotations by the author’s last name.
For full credit, you must have at least ten citations and annotations
Each annotation should be about 250 to 350 words
The Annotated Bibliography should be one cohesive document