This week provided some new and old information for me. I was extremely happy to get a refresher course on MLA citations. I have taken classes on how to use citations but it’s been at least 8 years since I took that class. It was a bit of a challenge especially citing an encyclopedia reference. I had to refresh my memory on this and was glad I have a book on citing MLA format or APA format.
Annotation analysis was a bit more of a challenge as I have never done anything like this before. It’s hard to construct your thoughts on a book to a few sentences that would provide enough information to deem it worthy of reading. The book I chose is a headline series from the Foreign Policy Association, which is a non-profit organization founded in 1918 to provide information about the world to the American public. The books are independent publications so the author information took a bit of researching. I was able to find a commentary written for the Daily Star on the author at www.zoominfo.com.
I find annotations very important and actually was recently doing a research project in which all books, or articles used must be scholarly. I was unable to find any books in the library at school so I had to buy some of the books used on my research and it was very important to read the annotations to determine that the books would be considered scholarly and not for entertainment.
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Danielle: Good sleuthing to locate information on the Foreign Policy Association. As I said in your annotation assignment, don't assume that your reader knows anything about them so you would want to include in your annotation who they are and what they do.
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