Should marijuana be legalized

TO WRITER: THIS ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY IS A PART OF A RESEARCH PAPER I ALSO ORDERED IN YOUR WEBSITE. BECAUSE THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY IS DUE BEFORE THE RESEARCH PAPER SO PLEASE USE THE SAME RESOURCES YOU ARE GOING TO USE TO WRITE IN THE RESEARCH PAPER AFTER. THANKS A LOT The Annotated Bibliography Will include between 10 and 15 sources formatted according to MLA (Modern Language Association) guidelines The Annotated Bibliography is on the same topic as your Research essay. You can use the sources on your A.B. on your Research essay; there can be overlap, but there doesn’t have to be. Presumably you will read articles, websites, etc. that you ultimately don’t want to incorporate into the argument of your research essay. These can be included in the A.B. The Annotated Bibliography—as well as the Research Essay—must conform to MLA Formatting Guidelines. Research Essay The topic is basically an answer to the following question: Should marijuana be legalized. But this does not mean it’s a straightforward yes or no argument. It might be, but there are many intermediary positions you might take—one prominent example being , say, to keep recreational use illegal but legalize marijuana for medical applications. How you address the topic is up to you, but it must be an argument that in some way addresses the question posed by the topic. ENGLISH 1302 SYLLABUS Online: Fall 2015** *Research Paper and Process: Students will produce a specific, unified, developed, organized, and coherent research paper of 1800-2400 words using at least EIGHT sources, both print and non-print. Students will show competency in a research paper process of choosing and narrowing topics, collecting sources from indexes, creating a working bibliography, taking notes from sources, using sources in proper MLA formats, and providing proper documentation for those sources. Sources must be credible and come from a variety of fields. You must include at least THREE SOURCES from scholarly periodicals. Other sources may include books, magazines, newspapers, websites, personal interviews, TV shows/documentaries etc. Annotated Bibliography: The Annotated Bibliography Will include between 10 and 15 sources formatted according to MLA (Modern Language Association) guidelines. See the page and link below explaining and demonstrating the format. Also—there is a link to the HCC Library within or course. All our MLA formatting will follow the HCC Library webpage guide to MLA Formatting. This is where you will go to look up the answers to the MLA Formatting Test, as well as to format your Annotated Bibliography and your Research Essay. The Annotated Bibliography WHAT IS AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY? An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents. Each citation is followed by a brief (usually about 150 words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph, the annotation. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited. ANNOTATIONS VS. ABSTRACTS Abstracts are the purely descriptive summaries often found at the beginning of scholarly journal articles or in periodical indexes. Annotations are descriptive and critical; they expose the author's point of view, clarity and appropriateness of expression, and authority. THE PROCESS Creating an annotated bibliography calls for the application of a variety of intellectual skills: concise exposition, succinct analysis, and informed library research. First, locate and record citations to books, periodicals, and documents that may contain useful information and ideas on your topic. Briefly examine and review the actual items. Then choose those works that provide a variety of perspectives on your topic. Cite the book, article, or document using the appropriate style. Write a concise annotation that summarizes the central theme and scope of the book or article. Include one or more sentences that (a) evaluate the authority or background of the author, (b) comment on the intended audience, (c) compare or contrast this work with another you have cited, or (d) explain how this work illuminates your bibliography topic. SAMPLE ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRY FOR A JOURNAL ARTICLE This example uses the MLA format for the journal citation. NOTE: Standard MLA practice requires double spacing within citations. Waite, Linda J., Frances Kobrin Goldscheider, and Christina Witsberger. "Nonfamily Living and the Erosion of Traditional Family Orientations Among Young Adults." American Sociological Review 51.4 (1986): 541-554. Print. The authors, researchers at the Rand Corporation and Brown University, use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Young Women and Young Men to test their hypothesis that nonfamily living by young adults alters their attitudes, values, plans, and expectations, moving them away from their belief in traditional sex roles. They find their hypothesis strongly supported in young females, while the effects were fewer in studies of young males. Increasing the time away from parents before marrying increased individualism, self-sufficiency, and changes in attitudes about families. In contrast, an earlier study by Williams cited below shows no significant gender differences in sex role attitudes as a result of nonfamily living. Link to Source: http://guides.library.cor HYPERLINK "http://guides.library.cornell.edu/annotatedbibliography"n HYPERLINK "http://guides.library.cornell.edu/annotatedbibliography"ell.edu/annotatedbibliography Permission to use this source comes from: Research & Learning Services Olin Library Cornell University Library Ithaca, NY, USA Essay Requirements All essays will be typed, and double-spaced. They will be graded for the quality of the analysis according to the parameters of the particular assignment, as well as appropriateness, unity and focus, coherence, development, organization, grammar and syntax. They will be submitted via A SINGLE EMAIL in two simultaneous formats. 1. As an MS Word Attachment and 2. Copied and pasted into the body of the SAME email the essay is attached to.