Directions: For this assignment, you will need to find two scholarly books and two scholarly articles on your paper topic and provide a summary of the content, a full citation, and some background information on the author, so I know you have looked in to their credentials. The whole point of this assignment is to give me a good look at the major sources you are planning to use for this paper. This assignment is different than it was for paper one, so make sure you read the details below and notice the differences. 
 

NOTE: When you cover a book in your notes for this assignment, you can specify one particular chapter instead of the whole book if you like. If you do so, make sure your summary clearly indicates which chapter you're referring to.

 

Due: Wed, November 25th.
 

Requirements:

 

*) Number of Sources: 2 scholarly books and 2 scholarly journals, NOT USED IN CLASS.
 

*) Bibliographic Information: Your notes must include a full MLA style entry for a works cited page.

 

*) Source Summary: You need to include a brief summary of the source you’re discussing. This summary needs to be at least three or four thorough sentences long, in order convey the content of the source to yourself later on in the research process. If you summarize one chapter, please indicate that you are covering only one chapter here.

 

*) Author Information: You must provide some author information about the author(s) for each source. This can come from Contemporary Authors, a google search, information from the book itself, wherever you need to go to find it. You will also have to tell me where this information came from. You can do this casually in the text itself instead of with MLA citations and all that. This answer must be in complete sentences.

*) Clearly number each of the sources (Book 1, Book 2, Journal 1, Journal 2), so I can easily tell when you move from one source to the next.
 

 

Example: Below is an example of a fictional source (from a real professor). Note that Moodle has messed up my tabs and spacing a bit down below, but don't worry about that. Do the best you can in that regard with the software we have here, and if margins tweak out, I'm fine with that...

 

Book Number One:

 

Bibliography: Maxis, Shandy. The Postmodern Film. New York: Penguin, 2004. Print.
 

Summary: This book discusses different elements of postmodern thought as found in several different films. It looks at three different films that critique our current world, much as the articles in Navigating America do. Maxis' main argument in chapter 4, "Film about Consumerism," is that much contemporary film shows us how much we are programmed by the modern corporate world to consumer, no matter what the consequences are. This book has great language and many quotes that can be used in an intro to my paper.

 

Author Information: Contemporary Authors lists Maxis as the author of more than seven scholarly books and a retired professor of Postmodern English from Stanford. This book also has an "about the author section" which says she's been involved in academic writing for over twenty years and won a coveted Fulbright Award to research and teach in the Poland in the 1990's.