Annotated Bibliography (Fiction)

Assignment

Week 5 Writing Exercise: Annotated Bibliography (Fiction)

Purpose

First, the purpose of this assignment is to put into practice what you have learned about effectively and critically reading, thinking about, analyzing, and writing about short fiction. Second, you will be expected to write and support a well-written, explicit literary thesis statement. Finally, you will be required to find and cite, per MLA, the primary resource (the text itself) and secondary (any other text) resources obtained from GALILEO.

Tasks

1. Review your notes written on all of the short fiction readings assigned.
2. Choose an assigned short story as the topic of your bibliography (see the complete list below). Off topic submissions will receive a grade of 0%=F. Choose a story that you enjoyed reading whose characters, style, or themes resonated with you.
   1. “Eveline” by James Joyce
   2. “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant
   3. “One Thing” by Edwidge Danticant
   4. “Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe
   5. “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien
   6. “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker
   7. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
3. Open a Word document, and format it per the MLA guidelines.
4. Write an explicit literary thesis statement using the formula provided in the Five StepProcess.
5. Support your thesis with three resources, the primary resource (the text itself) and two scholarly resources from GALILEO (e.g., journal article, book chapter, video from Film on Demand). Do not cite Wikipedia, literature summary websites (e.g, SparksNotes), or any other unreliable or open access resources in your paper.

1. Each annotated resource should follow the MLA in-text and Works Cited citation guidelines.
2. Each resource should include a one paragraph (at least 100 words) annotation.
3. Use the MLA formatting sample below as a writing guide.
4. Review the attached student sample assignment.
5. Submit your assignment via the Brightspace by D2L Turnitin, and check your Match Overview and AI percentages. Both should be under 25. Percentages over 25 will be reviewed for potential violations of the Academic Honesty Policy.
6. IMPORTANT: The Turnitin dropbox where you are submitting this assignment is enabled with a plagiarism and Artificial Intelligence (e.g., ChatGPT, QuillBot, Scribbr, Grammarly) detector. Assignments with percentages over 25% will be reviewed for potential violations of the Academic Honesty Policy and may be issued a grade of zero. You can check your Match Overview after submitting your assignment, but the AI percentage is only visible to your instructor. Repeated violations of the Academic Honesty Policy may result in grade of F in the class.

Criteria

In order to receive a 100%= A on this assignment, you should read and follow the directions carefully, follow the MLA guidelines (formatting and citing), review and edit your assignment, complete the assignment in its entirety (all parts), and submit the assignment by the deadline indicated on the dropbox.