Here we will bring together all the skills you have learned in Steps 1-5. Much of the work is already done. In Step 1, you located your sources, and in Step 5, you created Chicago Style citations in bibliographic form for them.

In this step (Step 6), we will produce half of the Annotated Bibliography. The second half will be done in Step 7. The first half of your Annotated Bibliography will contain 2 sources:

• 1 scholarly journal article from the UMGC Library
  and
• 1 source from the wider internet

Each source will be cited in Chicago Style bibliographic form, and each source will have its own annotation.

Each annotation will be at least 150-200 words and will include:

• Author Background
• Publishing Organization Background
• Thesis
• Evidence
• Degree of Bias
• Accuracy
• Comparison to Other Sources
• Assessment of Quality for Academic Research
  See instructions for details on these items.

These skills will serve you well in future courses and as you encounter articles in the news and on social media.

In Step 7, we will:

1. use the professor’s feedback to revise the citations and annotations for your first 2 Annotated Bibliography entries.
2. add citations and annotations for 2 more sources
   • 1 scholarly journal article from the UMGC Library
     and
   • 1 source from the wider internet.

In total, your complete Annotated Bibliography in Step 7 will contain 4 sources.