For this research checkpoint, submit three entries that may be used for your Annotated Bibliography project.
Since it’s still early in your research process, you might decide later not to include a source or two from this first checkpoint, and that’s okay. The goal of this first checkpoint is to make sure that you are finding credible and relevant sources and that you are gaining additional practice with creating the citation and with writing the evaluative summaries.
Use the DCC Library databases to conduct your research. They give you access to both popular and scholarly sources.
Please make sure your submission meets the following requirements:
• Format your submission according to MLA requirements, which means it has a complete heading, and header.
It is double-spaced and written in a 12 pt. font. The assignment title,
Research Checkpoint 1, is centered and not embellished in any way.
• Adhere to MLA citation requirements. This means each source citation uses the hanging indent, source containers are italicized, and article titles are quoted.
Use the Writing & Research
Handbook to check that your citations are complete and correct.
• Follow each source citation with a
150-word evaluative summary that reports the source’s main ideas and evaluates the source’s credibility and its relevance to the controversy that vallare researching
