It is the goal of this annotated bibliography first to establish
your control over the sources and then to show me (and yourself) how you intend
to employ their information. A
good annotation provides a succinct summary of the article, and it should give
some insight into the article’s relevance to your own agenda. This is first step in establishing the
“because” explanation (the warrant) upon which the Toulmin supportive approach
turns. Please note that the more
relevant information you pack into the annotation, the more your own argument
is going to take form before you
start writing. You will also find
that beyond helping to sculpt the contours of your own analysis and approach,
the annotated bibliography easily becomes your works cited page (bonus!).
Example:
Grant, Barry Keith (1996). Rich and Strange: The Yuppie Horror Film [Electronic
Version]. Journal of Film and Video, Vol. 48, No. ½ (Spring-Summer
1996): pp. 4-16. URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20688090
Grant examines a subgenre of the
contemporary horror film, the “Yuppie Horror film,” focusing on the way that
this subgenre employs the same elements of traditional horror films but shifted
to exploit the 1980’s-early-1990’s social and cultural preoccupation with
material success. Using a wide
variety of films as his support, Grant demonstrates the way that Yuppie horror
replaces monsters and the supernatural with financial horrors such as losing
one’s livelihood, social standing and/or material possessions. This essay will provide material for my
analysis of the salient economic anxieties and cultural tropes that motivate
the affluent villains in Bret Easton Ellis’ short stories, the Devil Wears Prada (1989) and Let Them Eat Stake (1990).
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