HIUS 390 Research Project: Annotated Bibliography Assignment Instructions Overview This assignment is

HIUS 390

Research Project: Annotated Bibliography Assignment Instructions

Overview

This assignment is designed to help you get a jump start on your Research Project: Research Paper Assignment that is due in in a later module. This will benefit you in two ways. First, you will start your research this module, which will help give you the time you need to write a good paper; second, you will receive feedback on this assignment on your formatting and the direction of your research, which you must incorporate into your research paper to avoid losing points over correctable content on that assignment. In other words, you will score higher on the research paper assignment if you implement the instructor feedback from this assignment.

For this assignment, you will be required to find and read two articles from scholarly journals and then summarize them, paraphrase from them, and practice integrating quotes from them into sentences of your own. Being able to evaluate the credibility of a source and determine if it meets your purposes is important in all walks of life, as is knowing how and when to give credit where credit is due. This assignment will give you practice with both of those things to help you hone those skills.

Instructions

You will compile an annotated bibliography that contains two scholarly articles from academic journals you can use for the Research Project: Research Paper Assignment. Evaluate each source closely to verify it is from an academic journal, deals with your chosen topic, and is about Virginia history. Following each citation, you must include a brief paragraph (around 150 words, and no fewer than 120 words) that summarizes the article and explains its relevance to Virginia history and the chosen research paper prompt. You will then provide both an integrated quotation and a paraphrase from the article that you may be able to incorporate into the research paper, both footnoted in Turabian style.

The articles must be sources you can use for the Research Project: Research Paper Assignment, where you will select one (1) of the topics below and fully address all the questions and elements it contains:

Identify some traditional approaches to government in Virginia and discuss how they were present in each of the Colonial, Antebellum and Reconstruction eras. Next, consider how the political changes of the 20th century (1900s) impacted the traditional political approaches you previously identified. What changes came to these traditional approaches during the 1900s, and why did they occur?

During Virginia’s Ratifying Convention in 1788, what were the differing positions between federalism and anti-federalism as Virginians debated whether the state should ratify the U.S. Constitution? What was the result of that debate? How did these differing viewpoints concerning the role of the federal government vs. the state government linger through the state during the Antebellum era? What 20th century (1900s) political debates in Virginia also had their roots in that disagreement?

How has Virginia’s civil rights struggle been present from the colonial era through today? Discuss when Virginia showed strides forward in civil rights and when setbacks occurred. Identify a current issue (since 2010) in Virginia that has its roots in that struggle. Be sure your examples are events that occurred in Virginia.

You can use the databases from the Jerry Falwell Library to find two scholarly journal articles. JSTOR, Project MUSE, ProQuest, and EBSCO are all excellent databases to start looking for American history resources in.

Demonstrating the ability to use integrated quotations is important because, in writing, you should never have a quotation standing alone as a complete sentence. Rather, you need to integrate the quote into a sentence of your own. See the link in the Resources section for this assignment for details on at least four different ways to integrate quotations in your writing.

Knowing how to properly paraphrase in writing is important because it can keep you from inadvertently plagiarizing. Paraphrasing is NOT rearranging words from your source or just using a thesaurus to swap one word out for another one. When you want to paraphrase information, you need to use your source for details and to understand the main idea, but then explain that idea entirely in your own words, with original sentence structures that are not imitative of the source’s author. The best way to do this is to read your source over several times until you have a solid understanding of it. Then, type your paper without looking at your source so that you are not unduly influenced by the writing and are just communicating the ideas instead. For more details and examples, see the instructions in the Resources section for this assignment. Note that you must cite paraphrases in the same way you cite direct quotes since the ideas you have written were original to someone else.

The bibliography must be formatted in current Turabian, and the sources should have an evident Virginia focus to them. The sources must be listed in alphabetical order, and the integrated quotation and paraphrase must both be footnoted. Footnotes and bibliography entries are formatted slightly differently, so be sure to format each correctly. See Liberty’s Chart of Citations and the Bibliography of Reference Examples for formatting details and examples.

Review the Research Project: Annotated Bibliography Grading Rubric before submitting to be sure your submission fulfills all the assignment requirements. Be sure to use and conform to the Research Project: Annotated Bibliography Template document to complete all aspects of this assignment.

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.

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