EGL 102 - Angelica Davila - Fall 2025

Your Annotated Bibliography Assignment requires:

4 sources are required for your Annotated Bibliography

Find sources about a topic in media that you want to pursue in your Research Proposal and Research Paper

• 3 of your 5 sources need to be scholarly sources
  • Find the scholarly sources through
    • any of the Oakton Library databases - Find Articles
    • Google Scholar or
    • Perplexity Academic Search

For each source you choose for this assignment, you will

• read
• summarize
• evaluate
• reflect

Search Terms?

The words you use for your search can affect the results of your search.

Broad Search Terms - big concept terms. 

• Media and society are words you could use to start searching with broad terms.

Narrow Search Terms - specific search words from you research question could include the type of media and the issue connected to the media

Forms of media such as

• Video Games
• TV (series, reality TV, talk shows, cartoons)
• Digital Media (internet, social media)
• Films & Movies
• Music
• Print (books, magazines)

Issues such as

• Mental Health
• Privacy - Digital Footprint
• Children or Child Development
• Disability

Think about  what you want to research and experiment with search terms to see what brings back the sources that are the best fit for your topic.