Research
Here is where you are going to be doing research for your essay. Remember that your prompt is: Based on your research, identify and analyze a human rights issue in your novel and show how it relates to real-life issues and affects people within the United States and one other country.
This lesson will go through how to find credible sources, how to created this annotated bibliography, and how to write your works cited page.
This lesson will go through how to find credible sources, how to created this annotated bibliography, and how to write your works cited page.
Reliable vs Unreliable sources
Not all sources are reliable. When you are searching for resources that serve as examples of how this human rights issue relates to real-life issues in and out of the country. First, do not forget that your book is the first source! Second, the Bill of Human Rights is your second source. Now, you should be also looking for articles or court cases for examples both in and out of the country regarding of the human rights issue you chose.
The following two videos are WONDERFUL resources for how to find credible sources and how to make the most of your online research. When you are researching, make sure you are saving these sources so that you can reference them later.
The following two videos are WONDERFUL resources for how to find credible sources and how to make the most of your online research. When you are researching, make sure you are saving these sources so that you can reference them later.
Sites you can use to research:
https://www.aclu.org/human-rights (current human rights court cases)
http://www.echr.coe.int/Pages/home.aspx?p=home (human rights court cases in Europe)
http://www.oas.org/en/iachr/ (human rights cases)
MLA Source Citations
Before you make your entire annotated bibliography, make sure you are citing the sources you have gathered correctly. There is a link below to the citation rules, and a link to a cite that will do it for you.
Annotated bibliography
Next, you will use your resources and your citations to create an annotated bibliography. The example is good to follow, but note that you do not need such long paragraphs for each entry.
Please include just 3-5 sentences:
-describing the source (court case, newspaper article, documentary etc)
-describing the value of the source (Why this source? How do you know it is credible?)
-describing what you are going to use the source for (Will it help you talk about the human rights issue as it is presented in Africa?)
At minimum, you should have 5 sources! Do not forget that your book counts as one and the Bill of Human Rights counts as the second one.
Please include just 3-5 sentences:
-describing the source (court case, newspaper article, documentary etc)
-describing the value of the source (Why this source? How do you know it is credible?)
-describing what you are going to use the source for (Will it help you talk about the human rights issue as it is presented in Africa?)
At minimum, you should have 5 sources! Do not forget that your book counts as one and the Bill of Human Rights counts as the second one.
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/writersref6e/lmcontent/ch07/PDF/Hacker-Orlov-MLA-Biblio.pdf
Portfolio assignment: What do you turn in?
Please just upload your completed annotated bibliography in MLA format.