Horrifying Damage of Plastic Pollution Annotated Bibliography Assignment Working from the topic, your assignment will be to develop an annotated bibliograp

Horrifying Damage of Plastic Pollution Annotated Bibliography Assignment Working from the topic, your assignment will be to develop an annotated bibliography for five academic sources on plastics. I don’t particularly care what angle you choose to read about – cleaning up, corporate social responsibility, alternatives, etc. – but the ultimate goal of this research will be to advise DePaul on how it can move in a more sustainable direction. The annotated bibliography should also contain a discussion of what you learned from your research Annotated Bibliography Assignment
Topic: Plastic Pollution
A little more detail: Everywhere you look these days there are articles and stories about the horrifying
damage of plastic pollution. From major international companies to grassroots consumer-led clean-up
efforts, plastics seem to be on everyone’s mind. This quarter (summer) we are going to use the concept
of “plastic pollution” as our field of study to apply all of our marketing research lessons.
Overview: Working from the topic, your assignment will be to develop an annotated bibliography for
five academic sources on plastics. I don’t particularly care what angle you choose to read about –
cleaning up, corporate social responsibility, alternatives, etc. – but the ultimate goal of this research will
be to advise DePaul on how it can move in a more sustainable direction. The annotated bibliography
should also contain a discussion of what you learned from your research.
What is an annotated bibliography? An annotated bibliography includes a summary and evaluation of
each source you have reviewed and intend to use for your research – consider it a mini-report on the
sources you have read/used in your investigation of a topic. Annotations are typically written in
paragraph form and for the purposes of this class should include the following information:
1. an explanation of the main purpose of the source
2. a short summary of key findings or arguments of the source
3. the academic/intellectual credentials of the source. Does it appear in a peer-reviewed journal? Is the
author someone who has expertise in the area?
4. any shortcomings or biases you notice
5. the value of this work as a contribution to the topic you’re exploring.
What good is it?
There are a number of great online resources that can help you with this project – such as the DePaul
Writing Center and The Online Writing Lab at Purdue University (owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/) which
both have terrific explanations of the value of annotated bibliographies. Quoted verbatim from the
Purdue site:
To learn about your topic: Writing an annotated bibliography is excellent preparation for a research
project. Just collecting sources for a bibliography is useful, but when you have to write annotations for
each source, you’re forced to read each source more carefully. You begin to read more critically instead
of just collecting information. At the professional level, annotated bibliographies allow you to see what
has been done in the literature and where your own research or scholarship can fit.
To help you formulate a thesis: Every good research paper is an argument. The purpose of research is to
state and support a thesis. So a very important part of research is developing a thesis that is debatable,
interesting, and current. Writing an annotated bibliography can help you gain a good perspective on
what is being said about your topic. By reading a variety of sources on a topic, you’ll start to see what
the issues are, what people are arguing about, and you’ll then be able to develop your own point of
view.
How do I get started? This project will work best if you proceed in several steps.
1. Create a list of sources that seem directly relevant to the topic. Look at the online library holdings.
Your goal here is to get a broad sense of what academic information is out there on your topic.
Remember that you want academic sources. As you develop your list of sources, you’ll probably narrow
or tweak your topic in order to make the list manageable. While you must end up with five academic
articles, all of which are directly relevant to your topic, your initial list may well have many more
sources.
2. Narrow your initial list of sources down to five. Your primary goal here is to choose sources that
address your topic directly. The best way to do that is by reading the abstracts. When possible, choose
sources that reflect a variety of perspectives on your topic. Choose newer sources over older ones as a
general rule (NOTHING later than 2000 should be used for this assignment, I would prefer nothing
before 2010).
3. Read and annotate your sources. See the first page of this guide for a list of the information required
in an annotated bibliography.
4. Put it all together. Your final product will contain the following elements—in this order.
a. A description of the topic in your own words and in your own perspective. This description
should explain what the topic is and why it is important. Length: 200-300 words.
b. A discussion of the research process that led you to select the sources you did for annotation.
(How did you find those sources? Why did you select these sources rather than others?) Length:
200-300 words. c. The annotated bibliography. Length: no more than 200 words per source.
c. For each source you annotate, you must also include a copy of the abstract provided by the
database you searched. (That’s for my benefit: you will undoubtedly find some sources I haven’t
read yet. The abstract will help me learn about your source.) The abstract must immediately
precede each annotation. The format for this section of the project will look like this:
source #1
abstract source #1
annotation source #2
abstract source #2 annotation
etc…
d. A discussion of what you learned from your research. This discussion should draw obviously
and explicitly from the five sources you annotated. Length: one to two pages.
The fine print: All annotations must be in paragraph form and use complete sentences. All
sources must be cited (I do not care WHICH type of citation you use as long as it is consistent).
Pages must be numbered and should be proof-read carefully for clarity, organization, spelling,
and grammar. This will go through turnitin so do NOT be tempted to copy/paste anything other
than the abstract. The paragraphs and summaries should be in your own words!

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