English Question

Learning Goal: I’m working on a english writing question and need the explanation and answer to help me learn.

Write annotated bibliography on Should beauty pageants for underage girls be discontinued because they are exploitive? MLA format times new roman font 12 size. Follow the rubrics attached. You may want to annotate your most important sources, or your instructor may ask you to prepare an annotated bibliography. Doing so can help you understand and remember the main ideas in each source you read. In addition to providing a succinct summary of the main ideas in the source (a descriptive annotation), you may note its strengths and/or weaknesses and how it is useful to your academic argument (an evaluative annotation). Heres an example of an annotated bibliography entry for an article used for an argument on tourism in Harlem. Note that the student writer opens by summarizing the argument of the article in the first three sentences, and then in the last three sentences explains why the source is useful to their own argument. Thus this student entry combines descriptive and evaluative annotations.

Annotated Bibliography Entry in MLA Style

Davila, Arlene. Empowered Culture? New York Citys Empowerment Zone and the Selling of El Barrio. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 594, no. 1, July 2004, pp. 4964. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4127693.

NYU sociology professor Arlene Davila explains that programs destined to stimulate tourism in Harlem have largely ignored Latino/a/x residents of East Harlem, known as El Barrio. Rather than blaming leaders of Harlems Black neighborhoods, which she suggests are seen as more marketable to tourists, she questions the anti-Latino bias of the economic policies of the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone. Davila calls for debate about the problems that come with treating culture as a commodity. Although the article is older, Davilas argument is a valuable one. She provides a counterpoint to the idea that economic initiatives adopted since the 1990s have benefited all Harlemites. I can also use her analysis of culture as a way to set up my conclusion.