Research Project Advice/Checklist

**Your Assignment is Due on Friday, April 8th.**

There are 2 Parts of Your Assignment

1. You will be typing a very brief research paper that summarizes your document. Your summary will include your three research questions in it. (I will post an example online this weekend that you can uses as a guideline.)

2. You will be creating an Annotated Bibliography. This is where you are showing me how you have gathered your information from your various sources. NoodleTools is what you are using to create your annotated bibliography. In your Noodle Tools you need to have One Primary Source. For your Annotated Bibliography you need to haveThree sources.

Here is an example of a completed Annotated Bibliography that I had to make for class:

Beatty, Jack. The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley (1874-1958) An Epic of Urban Politics and Irish America. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1992.

This text is considered to the definitive biography on James Michael Curley. Beatty spends a great amount of time detailing the life and times of Curley. He introduces the relationships that Curley has with other Irish-American politicians of his time and how a voter’s ethnicity played a deciding factor at the ballot. This resource was very helpful in providing background information on Curley's life.

Dinneen, Joseph. The Purple Shamrock: The Honorable James Michael Curley of Boston. NewYork: W.W. Norton, 1949.

Curley authorized Joseph Dineen to write a narrative on himself. Dineen was a reporter who had covered Curley for over 30 years and at times in less than favorable light. In his work there is the image of Curley that Curley wants the public to see and embrace, serving as propaganda for upcoming elections. This was an excellent primary source to use and compare with the Beatty narrative and was very useful.