Note that: this assignment will be continuous. After this Bibliography is written there will be an essay that has to be written by the same person. Because you’ll be going back to the sources used. 4 out of 5 sources that needs to be used will be from my school’s library research. I’ll provide the info needed to access this. The last one would be from the negativity instinct chapter from a book. I’ll provide pictures of the book pages needed. (Price could be negotiated as well)
For this assignment in Composition II, you will write an annotated bibliography that includes five sources you are planning to use in your research essay. (You can revisit, revise, and include the sources that you cited and annotated in the first module for this assignment if the research fits with your current paper’s focus.)
About the annotated bibliography. Completing an annotated bibliography of existing research is a fundamental component of writing an academic research essay. The annotated bibliography assignment serves several purposes:
Locating sources and engaging in a close reading of a text help you grow as a writer. Seeing models of how other writers have approached the topic and structured their arguments is also helpful.
The annotation summarizes the contents of the article to inform the reader of the relevance and quality of the sources cited. When collected, these annotations can serve as a “research log.”
The annotated bibliography provides an opportunity for you to evaluate the quality, breadth, and relevance of the research you’ve acquired. In other words, if you have five articles, each with little more than the same biographical information, then you know that you will need to do more research to find sources that offer a more in-depth and robust analysis of your issue. You’ll need to revisit the databases to find more diverse scholarship.
For your annotated bibliography, you need to complete the following steps:
State your tentative thesis or research question. At this point, you should have a tentative thesis or research question for your research paper. Include a one-sentence thesis or research question at the top of the bibliography, just below the title.
Keep in mind that refining your thesis or answering your research question is a recursive process. This means that while your tentative thesis or research question will guide your search, you may discover new information or arguments that persuade you to modify your thesis or approach. You can then use the revised thesis or research question to guide your research. At this point in the process, nothing should be set in stone.
Locate sources. The goal of this annotated bibliography assignment is to locate five scholarly sources that directly relate to your tentative thesis or research question. The sources can provide arguments or evidence in support of your position, or they can provide other significant positions on the topic.
Because the essays in our course readings are academic texts, you may use one of those to get your research started. The other four sources will be found using the academic research databases (e.g., Academic Search Complete, JSTOR, and Opposing Viewpoints in Context).
Write the annotations. The annotation should be written in complete sentences and should include the following information:
A summary of the source’s intended audience, thesis, and supporting arguments. Use active verbs. [Summary]
If the source supports your thesis or research question, an explanation of which information or arguments you will use in your essay. [Usability]
If the source provides a different or opposing position, an explanation of how you will respond to that position. [Usability]
An analysis of what makes this source a good one, including the credentials of the author(s) and the reliability of the arguments and information. [Summary]
Optional Template:
I have created a template that may help you complete this assignment if you’re having trouble organizing your thoughts and including all the essential content. Feel free to use this template for your annotated bibliography assignment if you’d like. You’ll need to change “he” to the appropriate pronoun depending on your author(s).
Summary Paragraph
[Name of author] is ___________________ (occupation). His credentials (as related to this topic) are ________________. He aims this article at ___________________ (audience). His purpose is to ___________ (persuade?) readers ____________________ (to believe what?). He writes in response to ___________________ (what is the current problem that has called this writing into being?). He claims _____________________ (thesis/claim/main idea). He explores/argues/reports _______________________ (Does he explore several different positions or does he take a stand and argue only his perspective? Does he simply report information? Discuss supporting arguments here.)
Usability Paragraph
I will use this information about _________________ (identify specific content you can use) to _____________________ (identify specifically what you can use the content for: background information, make/support a specific point, use a profound phrasing or statistic as evidence, etc.)
Formatting the bibliography. When writing the annotated bibliography, consider the following guidelines:
Use MLA style to provide a complete citation for the article.
MLA formatting and heading
MLA-formatted citation
An Annotated Bibliography in MLA format using the template above would look like this model.
Last Name 1
Last Name
Professor Dietz
ENGL 1302 0702
11 April 2022
Lesson 11: Annotated Bibliography
Thesis Statement: Social media negatively impacts the personality development of adolescents and young adults by changing their personality traits and deteriorating their mental health.
Alzahrani, Sultan, and Christian Bach. “Impact of Social Media on Personality Development.” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 3, no. 2, Jun. 2014, pp. 111-116. Innovative Space of Scientific Research Journals, https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.677.7189&rep=rep1&typedf.
Sultan Alzahrani is an assistant engineering professor at Arizona State University and a Research Co-Director at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology. His credentials related to social media’s impact on personality development are his Ph.D. in Computer Science and his ability to research for KACST. Christian Bach is a professor at the Technical University of Denmark and a Research scientist at Novozymes. His credentials are his master’s degree in Chemical Engineering and his doctorate in Biochemical Engineering. They aim this article at adolescents, parents, and fellow scholars. The authors’ purpose is to examine the impact of social media on the personality development of adolescents and to identify social media factors that influence personality development. They write in response to the extreme use of social media by adolescents to determine what effects social media has had on the youths’ personality development. They claim that four main social media factors influence personality development which include the culture of popularity, unreal standards of appearance, approval-seeking behavior, and prevalence of depression and anxiety. They explore the negative effects social media has on adolescents and present research that can be used to minimize the negative effects of social media on the personality development of adolescents.
I will use this information about the impacts social media has on the personalitydevelopment of adolescents to present the negative effects of social media profoundly inmy paper. This source supports my thesis and will be used in my paper to a great extent. Ican use this research information to prove the negative impacts including unrealstandards of appearance, approval-seeking behavior, and the widespread presence ofdepression and anxiety. I will specifically use this quote in my paper to further explainthe anxiety and depression impacts of social media: “These individuals are who are in theprocess of seeking their true identity and spend most of their time contemplating whatthey should commit to in life. This process can prove to be very anxiety-provoking.”
Brailovskaia, Julia, and Jürgen Margraf. “What Does Media Use Reveal About Personality and Mental Health? An Exploratory Investigation Among German Students.” PloS one, vol. 13, Jan. 2018, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5784983/. Julia Brailovskaia presently works at the Mental Health Research and Treatment Center, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. As an individual from the “Bochum Optimism and Mental Health (BOOM)” group she examines risk and defensive elements of psychological wellness. Her credentials related to the impacts social media has on personality development is her doctorate in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. She aims this article at social media users and adolescents, especially German students. Her purpose is to examine the relationship between personality traits, mental health variables, and social media use. She writes in response to the overly abundant use of social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumbler. She informs readers of her main research focus, which is on the relationship between mental health, personality, social media use, and social media addiction. She explores how social media affects personality traits like narcissism, self-esteem, extraversion, openness, neuroticism, depression, and anxiety.
I will use this information about the effects of social media on personality traits and mental health to add supporting evidence and research to my paper. I will use this research experiment and data to provide facts and statistics for my audience. This source provides both positive and negative effects of social media, which will help me complete my argument and counterargument.
Hamutoglu, Nazire, et al. “Investigating Direct and Indirect Effects of Social Media Addiction, Social Media Usage and Personality Traits on FOMO.” International Journal of Progressive Education, vol. 16, no. 2, 2020, pp. 248-261. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1249965.pdf.
Nazire Hamutoglu is an instructor at The Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence. Her credentials related to the impacts social media has on personality development is her doctorate in Computer and Instructional Technology Education from Eskisehir Technical University. She aims this article at social media users and adolescents, especially those who use YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Google. Her purpose is to inform readers about the effects of Social Media Addiction, Social Media Usage, and Personality traits. She writes in response to the relationship between social media addiction, FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), and social media addiction’s effect on personality traits. She claims that the common and extreme use of social media especially by adolescents may bring about adversities such as problematic social media usage, social media addiction, fear of missing out, and effects on personality traits. She examines all of the effects, including positive and negative, that social media has on adolescents who use social media. She also explores the direct relationship between specific personality traits, like agreeableness, and the amount of social media usage.
I will use this information about the effects of the extreme use of social media, especially by adolescents on personality traits to add more supporting information to my paper regarding my topic. I will specifically use facts and statistics from this journal article in my research paper. For example, I will use this fact, “42% of the world’s population actively uses social media, and 39% of them use social media actively on mobile devices.” I will also use the results of this study on personality traits to further my argument on the negative effects social media has on personality traits.
Kennedy, Katie. “Positive and Negative Effects of Social Media on Adolescent Well-Being.” 2019. Minnesota State University, Master’s thesis. Cornerstone: A Collection of Scholarly and Creative Works for Minnesota State University, Mankato. https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1923&context=etds.
Katie Kennedy is a Health and Physical Education Teacher and a District Wellness Coordinator. Her credentials related to the impacts social media has on personality development is her master’s degree of science in school health from Minnesota State University. She aims this article at social media users, adolescents, and parents. Her purpose is to inform readers of the positive and negative effects of social media on the welfare of adolescents. Moreover, she compares the top four social media platforms used by adolescents including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube. She writes in response to the extreme amount of social media use in adolescents and explains the good and bad impacts of social media on the youth. She claims that the research she performed focused mainly on the negative effects of social media including lack of quality and quantity of sleep, anxiety, anger, drug use, fear of missing out, body image, bullying, and depression. She explores both the positive and negative effects of social media on adolescents instead of just the negative impacts. She offers loads of information including the effects of social media, the kinds of personality traits that are affected the most, and the extreme use of social media by adolescents and young adults.
I will use this information about the positive and negative effects of social media on the welfare of adolescents to further my research paper on the effects of social media on personality traits. Mostly, welfare and personality traits in this context go hand in hand. I will specifically use this source to provide information on the major negative impacts of social media by providing statistics and in-depth explanations. Moreover, I will do the same for the positive impacts in my counterargument.
Mucan, Burcu, et al. “The Relationship Between Personality Traits and Social Media Use.” Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal, vol. 41, no. 3, Apr. 2013, pp. 517+. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://go-gale-com.northcenttexascollegelibrary.idm.oclc.org/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=Journals&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=MultiTab&hitCount=79514&searchType=BasicSearchForm¤tPosition=1&docId=GALE%7CA333842538&docType=Report&sort=Relevance&contentSegment=ZXAY-MOD1&prodId=OVIC&pageNum=1&contentSet=GALE%7CA333842538&searchId=R1&userGroupName=txshracd2531&inPS=true.
Burcu Mucan is a professor at Dumlupinar University. Her credentials related to the impacts social media has on personality development is her doctorate in Business Administration. Mucan et al. aim this article at social media users. Mucan et al.’s purpose is to inform readers about the impacts social media use has on personality traits. Mucan et al. write in response to the extreme social media usage in young adults and how it affects different age groups, genders, and income levels. Mucan et al. claim that people with personality traits including conscientiousness, openness to experience, and life satisfaction tend to use social media more. Mucan et al. explore the power of social media use against the personality traits of openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Mucan et al. explore both sides, the positive and negative effects, of the relationship between personality traits and social media use.
I will use this information about the positive impacts social media has on personality traits due to the amount of social media usage. I will use this information to establish my counterargument regarding the positive effects on personality traits. I will specifically use this information to explain how social media in some instances could make a positive impact on personality traits. I will also use the statistics available in this journal article to help me develop my research paper.
For this assignment in Composition II, you will write an annotated bibliography that includes five sources you are planning to use in your research essay. (You can revisit, revise, and include the sources that you cited and annotated in the first module for this assignment if the research fits with your current paper’s focus.)
About the annotated bibliography. Completing an annotated bibliography of existing research is a fundamental component of writing an academic research essay. The annotated bibliography assignment serves several purposes:
Locating sources and engaging in a close reading of a text help you grow as a writer. Seeing models of how other writers have approached the topic and structured their arguments is also helpful.
The annotation summarizes the contents of the article to inform the reader of the relevance and quality of the sources cited. When collected, these annotations can serve as a “research log.”
The annotated bibliography provides an opportunity for you to evaluate the quality, breadth, and relevance of the research you’ve acquired. In other words, if you have five articles, each with little more than the same biographical information, then you know that you will need to do more research to find sources that offer a more in-depth and robust analysis of your issue. You’ll need to revisit the databases to find more diverse scholarship.
For your annotated bibliography, you need to complete the following steps:
State your tentative thesis or research question. At this point, you should have a tentative thesis or research question for your research paper. Include a one-sentence thesis or research question at the top of the bibliography, just below the title.
Keep in mind that refining your thesis or answering your research question is a recursive process. This means that while your tentative thesis or research question will guide your search, you may discover new information or arguments that persuade you to modify your thesis or approach. You can then use the revised thesis or research question to guide your research. At this point in the process, nothing should be set in stone.
Locate sources. The goal of this annotated bibliography assignment is to locate five scholarly sources that directly relate to your tentative thesis or research question. The sources can provide arguments or evidence in support of your position, or they can provide other significant positions on the topic.
Because the essays in our course readings are academic texts, you may use one of those to get your research started. The other four sources will be found using the academic research databases (e.g., Academic Search Complete, JSTOR, and Opposing Viewpoints in Context).
Write the annotations. The annotation should be written in complete sentences and should include the following information:
A summary of the source’s intended audience, thesis, and supporting arguments. Use active verbs. [Summary]
If the source supports your thesis or research question, an explanation of which information or arguments you will use in your essay. [Usability]
If the source provides a different or opposing position, an explanation of how you will respond to that position. [Usability]
An analysis of what makes this source a good one, including the credentials of the author(s) and the reliability of the arguments and information. [Summary]
Optional Template:
I have created a template that may help you complete this assignment if you’re having trouble organizing your thoughts and including all the essential content. Feel free to use this template for your annotated bibliography assignment if you’d like. You’ll need to change “he” to the appropriate pronoun depending on your author(s).
Summary Paragraph
[Name of author] is ___________________ (occupation). His credentials (as related to this topic) are ________________. He aims this article at ___________________ (audience). His purpose is to ___________ (persuade?) readers ____________________ (to believe what?). He writes in response to ___________________ (what is the current problem that has called this writing into being?). He claims _____________________ (thesis/claim/main idea). He explores/argues/reports _______________________ (Does he explore several different positions or does he take a stand and argue only his perspective? Does he simply report information? Discuss supporting arguments here.)
Usability Paragraph
I will use this information about _________________ (identify specific content you can use) to _____________________ (identify specifically what you can use the content for: background information, make/support a specific point, use a profound phrasing or statistic as evidence, etc.)
Formatting the bibliography. When writing the annotated bibliography, consider the following guidelines:
Use MLA style to provide a complete citation for the article.
MLA formatting and heading
MLA-formatted citation
An Annotated Bibliography in MLA format using the template above would look like this model.
Last Name 1
Last Name
Professor Dietz
ENGL 1302 0702
11 April 2022
Lesson 11: Annotated Bibliography
Thesis Statement: Social media negatively impacts the personality development of adolescents and young adults by changing their personality traits and deteriorating their mental health.
Alzahrani, Sultan, and Christian Bach. “Impact of Social Media on Personality Development.” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 3, no. 2, Jun. 2014, pp. 111-116. Innovative Space of Scientific Research Journals, https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.677.7189&rep=rep1&typedf.
Sultan Alzahrani is an assistant engineering professor at Arizona State University and a Research Co-Director at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology. His credentials related to social media’s impact on personality development are his Ph.D. in Computer Science and his ability to research for KACST. Christian Bach is a professor at the Technical University of Denmark and a Research scientist at Novozymes. His credentials are his master’s degree in Chemical Engineering and his doctorate in Biochemical Engineering. They aim this article at adolescents, parents, and fellow scholars. The authors’ purpose is to examine the impact of social media on the personality development of adolescents and to identify social media factors that influence personality development. They write in response to the extreme use of social media by adolescents to determine what effects social media has had on the youths’ personality development. They claim that four main social media factors influence personality development which include the culture of popularity, unreal standards of appearance, approval-seeking behavior, and prevalence of depression and anxiety. They explore the negative effects social media has on adolescents and present research that can be used to minimize the negative effects of social media on the personality development of adolescents.
I will use this information about the impacts social media has on the personalitydevelopment of adolescents to present the negative effects of social media profoundly inmy paper. This source supports my thesis and will be used in my paper to a great extent. Ican use this research information to prove the negative impacts including unrealstandards of appearance, approval-seeking behavior, and the widespread presence ofdepression and anxiety. I will specifically use this quote in my paper to further explainthe anxiety and depression impacts of social media: “These individuals are who are in theprocess of seeking their true identity and spend most of their time contemplating whatthey should commit to in life. This process can prove to be very anxiety-provoking.”
Brailovskaia, Julia, and Jürgen Margraf. “What Does Media Use Reveal About Personality and Mental Health? An Exploratory Investigation Among German Students.” PloS one, vol. 13, Jan. 2018, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5784983/. Julia Brailovskaia presently works at the Mental Health Research and Treatment Center, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. As an individual from the “Bochum Optimism and Mental Health (BOOM)” group she examines risk and defensive elements of psychological wellness. Her credentials related to the impacts social media has on personality development is her doctorate in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. She aims this article at social media users and adolescents, especially German students. Her purpose is to examine the relationship between personality traits, mental health variables, and social media use. She writes in response to the overly abundant use of social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumbler. She informs readers of her main research focus, which is on the relationship between mental health, personality, social media use, and social media addiction. She explores how social media affects personality traits like narcissism, self-esteem, extraversion, openness, neuroticism, depression, and anxiety.
I will use this information about the effects of social media on personality traits and mental health to add supporting evidence and research to my paper. I will use this research experiment and data to provide facts and statistics for my audience. This source provides both positive and negative effects of social media, which will help me complete my argument and counterargument.
Hamutoglu, Nazire, et al. “Investigating Direct and Indirect Effects of Social Media Addiction, Social Media Usage and Personality Traits on FOMO.” International Journal of Progressive Education, vol. 16, no. 2, 2020, pp. 248-261. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1249965.pdf.
Nazire Hamutoglu is an instructor at The Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence. Her credentials related to the impacts social media has on personality development is her doctorate in Computer and Instructional Technology Education from Eskisehir Technical University. She aims this article at social media users and adolescents, especially those who use YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Google. Her purpose is to inform readers about the effects of Social Media Addiction, Social Media Usage, and Personality traits. She writes in response to the relationship between social media addiction, FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), and social media addiction’s effect on personality traits. She claims that the common and extreme use of social media especially by adolescents may bring about adversities such as problematic social media usage, social media addiction, fear of missing out, and effects on personality traits. She examines all of the effects, including positive and negative, that social media has on adolescents who use social media. She also explores the direct relationship between specific personality traits, like agreeableness, and the amount of social media usage.
I will use this information about the effects of the extreme use of social media, especially by adolescents on personality traits to add more supporting information to my paper regarding my topic. I will specifically use facts and statistics from this journal article in my research paper. For example, I will use this fact, “42% of the world’s population actively uses social media, and 39% of them use social media actively on mobile devices.” I will also use the results of this study on personality traits to further my argument on the negative effects social media has on personality traits.
Kennedy, Katie. “Positive and Negative Effects of Social Media on Adolescent Well-Being.” 2019. Minnesota State University, Master’s thesis. Cornerstone: A Collection of Scholarly and Creative Works for Minnesota State University, Mankato. https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1923&context=etds.
Katie Kennedy is a Health and Physical Education Teacher and a District Wellness Coordinator. Her credentials related to the impacts social media has on personality development is her master’s degree of science in school health from Minnesota State University. She aims this article at social media users, adolescents, and parents. Her purpose is to inform readers of the positive and negative effects of social media on the welfare of adolescents. Moreover, she compares the top four social media platforms used by adolescents including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube. She writes in response to the extreme amount of social media use in adolescents and explains the good and bad impacts of social media on the youth. She claims that the research she performed focused mainly on the negative effects of social media including lack of quality and quantity of sleep, anxiety, anger, drug use, fear of missing out, body image, bullying, and depression. She explores both the positive and negative effects of social media on adolescents instead of just the negative impacts. She offers loads of information including the effects of social media, the kinds of personality traits that are affected the most, and the extreme use of social media by adolescents and young adults.
I will use this information about the positive and negative effects of social media on the welfare of adolescents to further my research paper on the effects of social media on personality traits. Mostly, welfare and personality traits in this context go hand in hand. I will specifically use this source to provide information on the major negative impacts of social media by providing statistics and in-depth explanations. Moreover, I will do the same for the positive impacts in my counterargument.
Mucan, Burcu, et al. “The Relationship Between Personality Traits and Social Media Use.” Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal, vol. 41, no. 3, Apr. 2013, pp. 517+. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://go-gale-com.northcenttexascollegelibrary.idm.oclc.org/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=Journals&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=MultiTab&hitCount=79514&searchType=BasicSearchForm¤tPosition=1&docId=GALE%7CA333842538&docType=Report&sort=Relevance&contentSegment=ZXAY-MOD1&prodId=OVIC&pageNum=1&contentSet=GALE%7CA333842538&searchId=R1&userGroupName=txshracd2531&inPS=true.
Burcu Mucan is a professor at Dumlupinar University. Her credentials related to the impacts social media has on personality development is her doctorate in Business Administration. Mucan et al. aim this article at social media users. Mucan et al.’s purpose is to inform readers about the impacts social media use has on personality traits. Mucan et al. write in response to the extreme social media usage in young adults and how it affects different age groups, genders, and income levels. Mucan et al. claim that people with personality traits including conscientiousness, openness to experience, and life satisfaction tend to use social media more. Mucan et al. explore the power of social media use against the personality traits of openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Mucan et al. explore both sides, the positive and negative effects, of the relationship between personality traits and social media use.
I will use this information about the positive impacts social media has on personality traits due to the amount of social media usage. I will use this information to establish my counterargument regarding the positive effects on personality traits. I will specifically use this information to explain how social media in some instances could make a positive impact on personality traits. I will also use the statistics available in this journal article to help me develop my research paper.
For this assignment in Composition II, you will write an annotated bibliography that includes five sources you are planning to use in your research essay. (You can revisit, revise, and include the sources that you cited and annotated in the first module for this assignment if the research fits with your current paper’s focus.)
About the annotated bibliography. Completing an annotated bibliography of existing research is a fundamental component of writing an academic research essay. The annotated bibliography assignment serves several purposes:
Locating sources and engaging in a close reading of a text help you grow as a writer. Seeing models of how other writers have approached the topic and structured their arguments is also helpful.
The annotation summarizes the contents of the article to inform the reader of the relevance and quality of the sources cited. When collected, these annotations can serve as a “research log.”
The annotated bibliography provides an opportunity for you to evaluate the quality, breadth, and relevance of the research you’ve acquired. In other words, if you have five articles, each with little more than the same biographical information, then you know that you will need to do more research to find sources that offer a more in-depth and robust analysis of your issue. You’ll need to revisit the databases to find more diverse scholarship.
For your annotated bibliography, you need to complete the following steps:
State your tentative thesis or research question. At this point, you should have a tentative thesis or research question for your research paper. Include a one-sentence thesis or research question at the top of the bibliography, just below the title.
Keep in mind that refining your thesis or answering your research question is a recursive process. This means that while your tentative thesis or research question will guide your search, you may discover new information or arguments that persuade you to modify your thesis or approach. You can then use the revised thesis or research question to guide your research. At this point in the process, nothing should be set in stone.
Locate sources. The goal of this annotated bibliography assignment is to locate five scholarly sources that directly relate to your tentative thesis or research question. The sources can provide arguments or evidence in support of your position, or they can provide other significant positions on the topic.
Because the essays in our course readings are academic texts, you may use one of those to get your research started. The other four sources will be found using the academic research databases (e.g., Academic Search Complete, JSTOR, and Opposing Viewpoints in Context).
Write the annotations. The annotation should be written in complete sentences and should include the following information:
A summary of the source’s intended audience, thesis, and supporting arguments. Use active verbs. [Summary]
If the source supports your thesis or research question, an explanation of which information or arguments you will use in your essay. [Usability]
If the source provides a different or opposing position, an explanation of how you will respond to that position. [Usability]
An analysis of what makes this source a good one, including the credentials of the author(s) and the reliability of the arguments and information. [Summary]
Optional Template:
I have created a template that may help you complete this assignment if you’re having trouble organizing your thoughts and including all the essential content. Feel free to use this template for your annotated bibliography assignment if you’d like. You’ll need to change “he” to the appropriate pronoun depending on your author(s).
Summary Paragraph
[Name of author] is ___________________ (occupation). His credentials (as related to this topic) are ________________. He aims this article at ___________________ (audience). His purpose is to ___________ (persuade?) readers ____________________ (to believe what?). He writes in response to ___________________ (what is the current problem that has called this writing into being?). He claims _____________________ (thesis/claim/main idea). He explores/argues/reports _______________________ (Does he explore several different positions or does he take a stand and argue only his perspective? Does he simply report information? Discuss supporting arguments here.)
Usability Paragraph
I will use this information about _________________ (identify specific content you can use) to _____________________ (identify specifically what you can use the content for: background information, make/support a specific point, use a profound phrasing or statistic as evidence, etc.)
Formatting the bibliography. When writing the annotated bibliography, consider the following guidelines:
Use MLA style to provide a complete citation for the article.
MLA formatting and heading
MLA-formatted citation
An Annotated Bibliography in MLA format using the template above would look like this model.
Last Name 1
Last Name
Professor Dietz
ENGL 1302 0702
11 April 2022
Lesson 11: Annotated Bibliography
Thesis Statement: Social media negatively impacts the personality development of adolescents and young adults by changing their personality traits and deteriorating their mental health.
Alzahrani, Sultan, and Christian Bach. “Impact of Social Media on Personality Development.” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 3, no. 2, Jun. 2014, pp. 111-116. Innovative Space of Scientific Research Journals, https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.677.7189&rep=rep1&typedf.
Sultan Alzahrani is an assistant engineering professor at Arizona State University and a Research Co-Director at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology. His credentials related to social media’s impact on personality development are his Ph.D. in Computer Science and his ability to research for KACST. Christian Bach is a professor at the Technical University of Denmark and a Research scientist at Novozymes. His credentials are his master’s degree in Chemical Engineering and his doctorate in Biochemical Engineering. They aim this article at adolescents, parents, and fellow scholars. The authors’ purpose is to examine the impact of social media on the personality development of adolescents and to identify social media factors that influence personality development. They write in response to the extreme use of social media by adolescents to determine what effects social media has had on the youths’ personality development. They claim that four main social media factors influence personality development which include the culture of popularity, unreal standards of appearance, approval-seeking behavior, and prevalence of depression and anxiety. They explore the negative effects social media has on adolescents and present research that can be used to minimize the negative effects of social media on the personality development of adolescents.
I will use this information about the impacts social media has on the personalitydevelopment of adolescents to present the negative effects of social media profoundly inmy paper. This source supports my thesis and will be used in my paper to a great extent. Ican use this research information to prove the negative impacts including unrealstandards of appearance, approval-seeking behavior, and the widespread presence ofdepression and anxiety. I will specifically use this quote in my paper to further explainthe anxiety and depression impacts of social media: “These individuals are who are in theprocess of seeking their true identity and spend most of their time contemplating whatthey should commit to in life. This process can prove to be very anxiety-provoking.”
Brailovskaia, Julia, and Jürgen Margraf. “What Does Media Use Reveal About Personality and Mental Health? An Exploratory Investigation Among German Students.” PloS one, vol. 13, Jan. 2018, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5784983/. Julia Brailovskaia presently works at the Mental Health Research and Treatment Center, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. As an individual from the “Bochum Optimism and Mental Health (BOOM)” group she examines risk and defensive elements of psychological wellness. Her credentials related to the impacts social media has on personality development is her doctorate in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. She aims this article at social media users and adolescents, especially German students. Her purpose is to examine the relationship between personality traits, mental health variables, and social media use. She writes in response to the overly abundant use of social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumbler. She informs readers of her main research focus, which is on the relationship between mental health, personality, social media use, and social media addiction. She explores how social media affects personality traits like narcissism, self-esteem, extraversion, openness, neuroticism, depression, and anxiety.
I will use this information about the effects of social media on personality traits and mental health to add supporting evidence and research to my paper. I will use this research experiment and data to provide facts and statistics for my audience. This source provides both positive and negative effects of social media, which will help me complete my argument and counterargument.
Hamutoglu, Nazire, et al. “Investigating Direct and Indirect Effects of Social Media Addiction, Social Media Usage and Personality Traits on FOMO.” International Journal of Progressive Education, vol. 16, no. 2, 2020, pp. 248-261. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1249965.pdf.
Nazire Hamutoglu is an instructor at The Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence. Her credentials related to the impacts social media has on personality development is her doctorate in Computer and Instructional Technology Education from Eskisehir Technical University. She aims this article at social media users and adolescents, especially those who use YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Google. Her purpose is to inform readers about the effects of Social Media Addiction, Social Media Usage, and Personality traits. She writes in response to the relationship between social media addiction, FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), and social media addiction’s effect on personality traits. She claims that the common and extreme use of social media especially by adolescents may bring about adversities such as problematic social media usage, social media addiction, fear of missing out, and effects on personality traits. She examines all of the effects, including positive and negative, that social media has on adolescents who use social media. She also explores the direct relationship between specific personality traits, like agreeableness, and the amount of social media usage.
I will use this information about the effects of the extreme use of social media, especially by adolescents on personality traits to add more supporting information to my paper regarding my topic. I will specifically use facts and statistics from this journal article in my research paper. For example, I will use this fact, “42% of the world’s population actively uses social media, and 39% of them use social media actively on mobile devices.” I will also use the results of this study on personality traits to further my argument on the negative effects social media has on personality traits.
Kennedy, Katie. “Positive and Negative Effects of Social Media on Adolescent Well-Being.” 2019. Minnesota State University, Master’s thesis. Cornerstone: A Collection of Scholarly and Creative Works for Minnesota State University, Mankato. https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1923&context=etds.
Katie Kennedy is a Health and Physical Education Teacher and a District Wellness Coordinator. Her credentials related to the impacts social media has on personality development is her master’s degree of science in school health from Minnesota State University. She aims this article at social media users, adolescents, and parents. Her purpose is to inform readers of the positive and negative effects of social media on the welfare of adolescents. Moreover, she compares the top four social media platforms used by adolescents including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube. She writes in response to the extreme amount of social media use in adolescents and explains the good and bad impacts of social media on the youth. She claims that the research she performed focused mainly on the negative effects of social media including lack of quality and quantity of sleep, anxiety, anger, drug use, fear of missing out, body image, bullying, and depression. She explores both the positive and negative effects of social media on adolescents instead of just the negative impacts. She offers loads of information including the effects of social media, the kinds of personality traits that are affected the most, and the extreme use of social media by adolescents and young adults.
I will use this information about the positive and negative effects of social media on the welfare of adolescents to further my research paper on the effects of social media on personality traits. Mostly, welfare and personality traits in this context go hand in hand. I will specifically use this source to provide information on the major negative impacts of social media by providing statistics and in-depth explanations. Moreover, I will do the same for the positive impacts in my counterargument.
Mucan, Burcu, et al. “The Relationship Between Personality Traits and Social Media Use.” Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal, vol. 41, no. 3, Apr. 2013, pp. 517+. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://go-gale-com.northcenttexascollegelibrary.idm.oclc.org/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=Journals&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=MultiTab&hitCount=79514&searchType=BasicSearchForm¤tPosition=1&docId=GALE%7CA333842538&docType=Report&sort=Relevance&contentSegment=ZXAY-MOD1&prodId=OVIC&pageNum=1&contentSet=GALE%7CA333842538&searchId=R1&userGroupName=txshracd2531&inPS=true.
Burcu Mucan is a professor at Dumlupinar University. Her credentials related to the impacts social media has on personality development is her doctorate in Business Administration. Mucan et al. aim this article at social media users. Mucan et al.’s purpose is to inform readers about the impacts social media use has on personality traits. Mucan et al. write in response to the extreme social media usage in young adults and how it affects different age groups, genders, and income levels. Mucan et al. claim that people with personality traits including conscientiousness, openness to experience, and life satisfaction tend to use social media more. Mucan et al. explore the power of social media use against the personality traits of openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Mucan et al. explore both sides, the positive and negative effects, of the relationship between personality traits and social media use.
I will use this information about the positive impacts social media has on personality traits due to the amount of social media usage. I will use this information to establish my counterargument regarding the positive effects on personality traits. I will specifically use this information to explain how social media in some instances could make a positive impact on personality traits. I will also use the statistics available in this journal article to help me develop my research paper.
For this assignment in Composition II, you will write an annotated bibliography that includes five sources you are planning to use in your research essay. (You can revisit, revise, and include the sources that you cited and annotated in the first module for this assignment if the research fits with your current paper’s focus.)
About the annotated bibliography. Completing an annotated bibliography of existing research is a fundamental component of writing an academic research essay. The annotated bibliography assignment serves several purposes:
Locating sources and engaging in a close reading of a text help you grow as a writer. Seeing models of how other writers have approached the topic and structured their arguments is also helpful.
The annotation summarizes the contents of the article to inform the reader of the relevance and quality of the sources cited. When collected, these annotations can serve as a “research log.”
The annotated bibliography provides an opportunity for you to evaluate the quality, breadth, and relevance of the research you’ve acquired. In other words, if you have five articles, each with little more than the same biographical information, then you know that you will need to do more research to find sources that offer a more in-depth and robust analysis of your issue. You’ll need to revisit the databases to find more diverse scholarship.
For your annotated bibliography, you need to complete the following steps:
State your tentative thesis or research question. At this point, you should have a tentative thesis or research question for your research paper. Include a one-sentence thesis or research question at the top of the bibliography, just below the title.
Keep in mind that refining your thesis or answering your research question is a recursive process. This means that while your tentative thesis or research question will guide your search, you may discover new information or arguments that persuade you to modify your thesis or approach. You can then use the revised thesis or research question to guide your research. At this point in the process, nothing should be set in stone.
Locate sources. The goal of this annotated bibliography assignment is to locate five scholarly sources that directly relate to your tentative thesis or research question. The sources can provide arguments or evidence in support of your position, or they can provide other significant positions on the topic.
Because the essays in our course readings are academic texts, you may use one of those to get your research started. The other four sources will be found using the academic research databases (e.g., Academic Search Complete, JSTOR, and Opposing Viewpoints in Context).
Write the annotations. The annotation should be written in complete sentences and should include the following information:
A summary of the source’s intended audience, thesis, and supporting arguments. Use active verbs. [Summary]
If the source supports your thesis or research question, an explanation of which information or arguments you will use in your essay. [Usability]
If the source provides a different or opposing position, an explanation of how you will respond to that position. [Usability]
An analysis of what makes this source a good one, including the credentials of the author(s) and the reliability of the arguments and information. [Summary]
Optional Template:
I have created a template that may help you complete this assignment if you’re having trouble organizing your thoughts and including all the essential content. Feel free to use this template for your annotated bibliography assignment if you’d like. You’ll need to change “he” to the appropriate pronoun depending on your author(s).
Summary Paragraph
[Name of author] is ___________________ (occupation). His credentials (as related to this topic) are ________________. He aims this article at ___________________ (audience). His purpose is to ___________ (persuade?) readers ____________________ (to believe what?). He writes in response to ___________________ (what is the current problem that has called this writing into being?). He claims _____________________ (thesis/claim/main idea). He explores/argues/reports _______________________ (Does he explore several different positions or does he take a stand and argue only his perspective? Does he simply report information? Discuss supporting arguments here.)
Usability Paragraph
I will use this information about _________________ (identify specific content you can use) to _____________________ (identify specifically what you can use the content for: background information, make/support a specific point, use a profound phrasing or statistic as evidence, etc.)
Formatting the bibliography. When writing the annotated bibliography, consider the following guidelines:
Use MLA style to provide a complete citation for the article.
MLA formatting and heading
MLA-formatted citation
An Annotated Bibliography in MLA format using the template above would look like this model.
Last Name 1
Last Name
Professor Dietz
ENGL 1302 0702
11 April 2022
Lesson 11: Annotated Bibliography
Thesis Statement: Social media negatively impacts the personality development of adolescents and young adults by changing their personality traits and deteriorating their mental health.
Alzahrani, Sultan, and Christian Bach. “Impact of Social Media on Personality Development.” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 3, no. 2, Jun. 2014, pp. 111-116. Innovative Space of Scientific Research Journals, https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.677.7189&rep=rep1&typedf.
Sultan Alzahrani is an assistant engineering professor at Arizona State University and a Research Co-Director at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology. His credentials related to social media’s impact on personality development are his Ph.D. in Computer Science and his ability to research for KACST. Christian Bach is a professor at the Technical University of Denmark and a Research scientist at Novozymes. His credentials are his master’s degree in Chemical Engineering and his doctorate in Biochemical Engineering. They aim this article at adolescents, parents, and fellow scholars. The authors’ purpose is to examine the impact of social media on the personality development of adolescents and to identify social media factors that influence personality development. They write in response to the extreme use of social media by adolescents to determine what effects social media has had on the youths’ personality development. They claim that four main social media factors influence personality development which include the culture of popularity, unreal standards of appearance, approval-seeking behavior, and prevalence of depression and anxiety. They explore the negative effects social media has on adolescents and present research that can be used to minimize the negative effects of social media on the personality development of adolescents.
I will use this information about the impacts social media has on the personalitydevelopment of adolescents to present the negative effects of social media profoundly inmy paper. This source supports my thesis and will be used in my paper to a great extent. Ican use this research information to prove the negative impacts including unrealstandards of appearance, approval-seeking behavior, and the widespread presence ofdepression and anxiety. I will specifically use this quote in my paper to further explainthe anxiety and depression impacts of social media: “These individuals are who are in theprocess of seeking their true identity and spend most of their time contemplating whatthey should commit to in life. This process can prove to be very anxiety-provoking.”
Brailovskaia, Julia, and Jürgen Margraf. “What Does Media Use Reveal About Personality and Mental Health? An Exploratory Investigation Among German Students.” PloS one, vol. 13, Jan. 2018, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5784983/. Julia Brailovskaia presently works at the Mental Health Research and Treatment Center, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. As an individual from the “Bochum Optimism and Mental Health (BOOM)” group she examines risk and defensive elements of psychological wellness. Her credentials related to the impacts social media has on personality development is her doctorate in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. She aims this article at social media users and adolescents, especially German students. Her purpose is to examine the relationship between personality traits, mental health variables, and social media use. She writes in response to the overly abundant use of social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumbler. She informs readers of her main research focus, which is on the relationship between mental health, personality, social media use, and social media addiction. She explores how social media affects personality traits like narcissism, self-esteem, extraversion, openness, neuroticism, depression, and anxiety.
I will use this information about the effects of social media on personality traits and mental health to add supporting evidence and research to my paper. I will use this research experiment and data to provide facts and statistics for my audience. This source provides both positive and negative effects of social media, which will help me complete my argument and counterargument.
Hamutoglu, Nazire, et al. “Investigating Direct and Indirect Effects of Social Media Addiction, Social Media Usage and Personality Traits on FOMO.” International Journal of Progressive Education, vol. 16, no. 2, 2020, pp. 248-261. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1249965.pdf.
Nazire Hamutoglu is an instructor at The Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence. Her credentials related to the impacts social media has on personality development is her doctorate in Computer and Instructional Technology Education from Eskisehir Technical University. She aims this article at social media users and adolescents, especially those who use YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Google. Her purpose is to inform readers about the effects of Social Media Addiction, Social Media Usage, and Personality traits. She writes in response to the relationship between social media addiction, FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), and social media addiction’s effect on personality traits. She claims that the common and extreme use of social media especially by adolescents may bring about adversities such as problematic social media usage, social media addiction, fear of missing out, and effects on personality traits. She examines all of the effects, including positive and negative, that social media has on adolescents who use social media. She also explores the direct relationship between specific personality traits, like agreeableness, and the amount of social media usage.
I will use this information about the effects of the extreme use of social media, especially by adolescents on personality traits to add more supporting information to my paper regarding my topic. I will specifically use facts and statistics from this journal article in my research paper. For example, I will use this fact, “42% of the world’s population actively uses social media, and 39% of them use social media actively on mobile devices.” I will also use the results of this study on personality traits to further my argument on the negative effects social media has on personality traits.
Kennedy, Katie. “Positive and Negative Effects of Social Media on Adolescent Well-Being.” 2019. Minnesota State University, Master’s thesis. Cornerstone: A Collection of Scholarly and Creative Works for Minnesota State University, Mankato. https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1923&context=etds.
Katie Kennedy is a Health and Physical Education Teacher and a District Wellness Coordinator. Her credentials related to the impacts social media has on personality development is her master’s degree of science in school health from Minnesota State University. She aims this article at social media users, adolescents, and parents. Her purpose is to inform readers of the positive and negative effects of social media on the welfare of adolescents. Moreover, she compares the top four social media platforms used by adolescents including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube. She writes in response to the extreme amount of social media use in adolescents and explains the good and bad impacts of social media on the youth. She claims that the research she performed focused mainly on the negative effects of social media including lack of quality and quantity of sleep, anxiety, anger, drug use, fear of missing out, body image, bullying, and depression. She explores both the positive and negative effects of social media on adolescents instead of just the negative impacts. She offers loads of information including the effects of social media, the kinds of personality traits that are affected the most, and the extreme use of social media by adolescents and young adults.
I will use this information about the positive and negative effects of social media on the welfare of adolescents to further my research paper on the effects of social media on personality traits. Mostly, welfare and personality traits in this context go hand in hand. I will specifically use this source to provide information on the major negative impacts of social media by providing statistics and in-depth explanations. Moreover, I will do the same for the positive impacts in my counterargument.
Mucan, Burcu, et al. “The Relationship Between Personality Traits and Social Media Use.” Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal, vol. 41, no. 3, Apr. 2013, pp. 517+. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://go-gale-com.northcenttexascollegelibrary.idm.oclc.org/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=Journals&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=MultiTab&hitCount=79514&searchType=BasicSearchForm¤tPosition=1&docId=GALE%7CA333842538&docType=Report&sort=Relevance&contentSegment=ZXAY-MOD1&prodId=OVIC&pageNum=1&contentSet=GALE%7CA333842538&searchId=R1&userGroupName=txshracd2531&inPS=true.
Burcu Mucan is a professor at Dumlupinar University. Her credentials related to the impacts social media has on personality development is her doctorate in Business Administration. Mucan et al. aim this article at social media users. Mucan et al.’s purpose is to inform readers about the impacts social media use has on personality traits. Mucan et al. write in response to the extreme social media usage in young adults and how it affects different age groups, genders, and income levels. Mucan et al. claim that people with personality traits including conscientiousness, openness to experience, and life satisfaction tend to use social media more. Mucan et al. explore the power of social media use against the personality traits of openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Mucan et al. explore both sides, the positive and negative effects, of the relationship between personality traits and social media use.
I will use this information about the positive impacts social media has on personality traits due to the amount of social media usage. I will use this information to establish my counterargument regarding the positive effects on personality traits. I will specifically use this information to explain how social media in some instances could make a positive impact on personality traits. I will also use the statistics available in this journal article to help me develop my research paper.
For this assignment in Composition II, you will write an annotated bibliography that includes five sources you are planning to use in your research essay. (You can revisit, revise, and include the sources that you cited and annotated in the first module for this assignment if the research fits with your current paper’s focus.)
About the annotated bibliography. Completing an annotated bibliography of existing research is a fundamental component of writing an academic research essay. The annotated bibliography assignment serves several purposes:
Locating sources and engaging in a close reading of a text help you grow as a writer. Seeing models of how other writers have approached the topic and structured their arguments is also helpful.
The annotation summarizes the contents of the article to inform the reader of the relevance and quality of the sources cited. When collected, these annotations can serve as a “research log.”
The annotated bibliography provides an opportunity for you to evaluate the quality, breadth, and relevance of the research you’ve acquired. In other words, if you have five articles, each with little more than the same biographical information, then you know that you will need to do more research to find sources that offer a more in-depth and robust analysis of your issue. You’ll need to revisit the databases to find more diverse scholarship.
For your annotated bibliography, you need to complete the following steps:
State your tentative thesis or research question. At this point, you should have a tentative thesis or research question for your research paper. Include a one-sentence thesis or research question at the top of the bibliography, just below the title.
Keep in mind that refining your thesis or answering your research question is a recursive process. This means that while your tentative thesis or research question will guide your search, you may discover new information or arguments that persuade you to modify your thesis or approach. You can then use the revised thesis or research question to guide your research. At this point in the process, nothing should be set in stone.
Locate sources. The goal of this annotated bibliography assignment is to locate five scholarly sources that directly relate to your tentative thesis or research question. The sources can provide arguments or evidence in support of your position, or they can provide other significant positions on the topic.
Because the essays in our course readings are academic texts, you may use one of those to get your research started. The other four sources will be found using the academic research databases (e.g., Academic Search Complete, JSTOR, and Opposing Viewpoints in Context).
Write the annotations. The annotation should be written in complete sentences and should include the following information:
A summary of the source’s intended audience, thesis, and supporting arguments. Use active verbs. [Summary]
If the source supports your thesis or research question, an explanation of which information or arguments you will use in your essay. [Usability]
If the source provides a different or opposing position, an explanation of how you will respond to that position. [Usability]
An analysis of what makes this source a good one, including the credentials of the author(s) and the reliability of the arguments and information. [Summary]
Optional Template:
I have created a template that may help you complete this assignment if you’re having trouble organizing your thoughts and including all the essential content. Feel free to use this template for your annotated bibliography assignment if you’d like. You’ll need to change “he” to the appropriate pronoun depending on your author(s).
Summary Paragraph
[Name of author] is ___________________ (occupation). His credentials (as related to this topic) are ________________. He aims this article at ___________________ (audience). His purpose is to ___________ (persuade?) readers ____________________ (to believe what?). He writes in response to ___________________ (what is the current problem that has called this writing into being?). He claims _____________________ (thesis/claim/main idea). He explores/argues/reports _______________________ (Does he explore several different positions or does he take a stand and argue only his perspective? Does he simply report information? Discuss supporting arguments here.)
Usability Paragraph
I will use this information about _________________ (identify specific content you can use) to _____________________ (identify specifically what you can use the content for: background information, make/support a specific point, use a profound phrasing or statistic as evidence, etc.)
Formatting the bibliography. When writing the annotated bibliography, consider the following guidelines:
Use MLA style to provide a complete citation for the article.
MLA formatting and heading
MLA-formatted citation
An Annotated Bibliography in MLA format using the template above would look like this model.
Last Name 1
Last Name
Professor Dietz
ENGL 1302 0702
11 April 2022
Lesson 11: Annotated Bibliography
Thesis Statement: Social media negatively impacts the personality development of adolescents and young adults by changing their personality traits and deteriorating their mental health.
Alzahrani, Sultan, and Christian Bach. “Impact of Social Media on Personality Development.” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 3, no. 2, Jun. 2014, pp. 111-116. Innovative Space of Scientific Research Journals, https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.677.7189&rep=rep1&typedf.
Sultan Alzahrani is an assistant engineering professor at Arizona State University and a Research Co-Director at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology. His credentials related to social media’s impact on personality development are his Ph.D. in Computer Science and his ability to research for KACST. Christian Bach is a professor at the Technical University of Denmark and a Research scientist at Novozymes. His credentials are his master’s degree in Chemical Engineering and his doctorate in Biochemical Engineering. They aim this article at adolescents, parents, and fellow scholars. The authors’ purpose is to examine the impact of social media on the personality development of adolescents and to identify social media factors that influence personality development. They write in response to the extreme use of social media by adolescents to determine what effects social media has had on the youths’ personality development. They claim that four main social media factors influence personality development which include the culture of popularity, unreal standards of appearance, approval-seeking behavior, and prevalence of depression and anxiety. They explore the negative effects social media has on adolescents and present research that can be used to minimize the negative effects of social media on the personality development of adolescents.
I will use this information about the impacts social media has on the personalitydevelopment of adolescents to present the negative effects of social media profoundly inmy paper. This source supports my thesis and will be used in my paper to a great extent. Ican use this research information to prove the negative impacts including unrealstandards of appearance, approval-seeking behavior, and the widespread presence ofdepression and anxiety. I will specifically use this quote in my paper to further explainthe anxiety and depression impacts of social media: “These individuals are who are in theprocess of seeking their true identity and spend most of their time contemplating whatthey should commit to in life. This process can prove to be very anxiety-provoking.”
Brailovskaia, Julia, and Jürgen Margraf. “What Does Media Use Reveal About Personality and Mental Health? An Exploratory Investigation Among German Students.” PloS one, vol. 13, Jan. 2018, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5784983/. Julia Brailovskaia presently works at the Mental Health Research and Treatment Center, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. As an individual from the “Bochum Optimism and Mental Health (BOOM)” group she examines risk and defensive elements of psychological wellness. Her credentials related to the impacts social media has on personality development is her doctorate in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. She aims this article at social media users and adolescents, especially German students. Her purpose is to examine the relationship between personality traits, mental health variables, and social media use. She writes in response to the overly abundant use of social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumbler. She informs readers of her main research focus, which is on the relationship between mental health, personality, social media use, and social media addiction. She explores how social media affects personality traits like narcissism, self-esteem, extraversion, openness, neuroticism, depression, and anxiety.
I will use this information about the effects of social media on personality traits and mental health to add supporting evidence and research to my paper. I will use this research experiment and data to provide facts and statistics for my audience. This source provides both positive and negative effects of social media, which will help me complete my argument and counterargument.
Hamutoglu, Nazire, et al. “Investigating Direct and Indirect Effects of Social Media Addiction, Social Media Usage and Personality Traits on FOMO.” International Journal of Progressive Education, vol. 16, no. 2, 2020, pp. 248-261. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1249965.pdf.
Nazire Hamutoglu is an instructor at The Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence. Her credentials related to the impacts social media has on personality development is her doctorate in Computer and Instructional Technology Education from Eskisehir Technical University. She aims this article at social media users and adolescents, especially those who use YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Google. Her purpose is to inform readers about the effects of Social Media Addiction, Social Media Usage, and Personality traits. She writes in response to the relationship between social media addiction, FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), and social media addiction’s effect on personality traits. She claims that the common and extreme use of social media especially by adolescents may bring about adversities such as problematic social media usage, social media addiction, fear of missing out, and effects on personality traits. She examines all of the effects, including positive and negative, that social media has on adolescents who use social media. She also explores the direct relationship between specific personality traits, like agreeableness, and the amount of social media usage.
I will use this information about the effects of the extreme use of social media, especially by adolescents on personality traits to add more supporting information to my paper regarding my topic. I will specifically use facts and statistics from this journal article in my research paper. For example, I will use this fact, “42% of the world’s population actively uses social media, and 39% of them use social media actively on mobile devices.” I will also use the results of this study on personality traits to further my argument on the negative effects social media has on personality traits.
Kennedy, Katie. “Positive and Negative Effects of Social Media on Adolescent Well-Being.” 2019. Minnesota State University, Master’s thesis. Cornerstone: A Collection of Scholarly and Creative Works for Minnesota State University, Mankato. https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1923&context=etds.
Katie Kennedy is a Health and Physical Education Teacher and a District Wellness Coordinator. Her credentials related to the impacts social media has on personality development is her master’s degree of science in school health from Minnesota State University. She aims this article at social media users, adolescents, and parents. Her purpose is to inform readers of the positive and negative effects of social media on the welfare of adolescents. Moreover, she compares the top four social media platforms used by adolescents including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube. She writes in response to the extreme amount of social media use in adolescents and explains the good and bad impacts of social media on the youth. She claims that the research she performed focused mainly on the negative effects of social media including lack of quality and quantity of sleep, anxiety, anger, drug use, fear of missing out, body image, bullying, and depression. She explores both the positive and negative effects of social media on adolescents instead of just the negative impacts. She offers loads of information including the effects of social media, the kinds of personality traits that are affected the most, and the extreme use of social media by adolescents and young adults.
I will use this information about the positive and negative effects of social media on the welfare of adolescents to further my research paper on the effects of social media on personality traits. Mostly, welfare and personality traits in this context go hand in hand. I will specifically use this source to provide information on the major negative impacts of social media by providing statistics and in-depth explanations. Moreover, I will do the same for the positive impacts in my counterargument.
Mucan, Burcu, et al. “The Relationship Between Personality Traits and Social Media Use.” Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal, vol. 41, no. 3, Apr. 2013, pp. 517+. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://go-gale-com.northcenttexascollegelibrary.idm.oclc.org/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=Journals&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=MultiTab&hitCount=79514&searchType=BasicSearchForm¤tPosition=1&docId=GALE%7CA333842538&docType=Report&sort=Relevance&contentSegment=ZXAY-MOD1&prodId=OVIC&pageNum=1&contentSet=GALE%7CA333842538&searchId=R1&userGroupName=txshracd2531&inPS=true.
Burcu Mucan is a professor at Dumlupinar University. Her credentials related to the impacts social media has on personality development is her doctorate in Business Administration. Mucan et al. aim this article at social media users. Mucan et al.’s purpose is to inform readers about the impacts social media use has on personality traits. Mucan et al. write in response to the extreme social media usage in young adults and how it affects different age groups, genders, and income levels. Mucan et al. claim that people with personality traits including conscientiousness, openness to experience, and life satisfaction tend to use social media more. Mucan et al. explore the power of social media use against the personality traits of openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Mucan et al. explore both sides, the positive and negative effects, of the relationship between personality traits and social media use.
I will use this information about the positive impacts social media has on personality traits due to the amount of social media usage. I will use this information to establish my counterargument regarding the positive effects on personality traits. I will specifically use this information to explain how social media in some instances could make a positive impact on personality traits. I will also use the statistics available in this journal article to help me develop my research paper.
For this assignment in Composition II, you will write an annotated bibliography that includes five sources you are planning to use in your research essay. (You can revisit, revise, and include the sources that you cited and annotated in the first module for this assignment if the research fits with your current paper’s focus.)
About the annotated bibliography. Completing an annotated bibliography of existing research is a fundamental component of writing an academic research essay. The annotated bibliography assignment serves several purposes:
Locating sources and engaging in a close reading of a text help you grow as a writer. Seeing models of how other writers have approached the topic and structured their arguments is also helpful.
The annotation summarizes the contents of the article to inform the reader of the relevance and quality of the sources cited. When collected, these annotations can serve as a “research log.”
The annotated bibliography provides an opportunity for you to evaluate the quality, breadth, and relevance of the research you’ve acquired. In other words, if you have five articles, each with little more than the same biographical information, then you know that you will need to do more research to find sources that offer a more in-depth and robust analysis of your issue. You’ll need to revisit the databases to find more diverse scholarship.
For your annotated bibliography, you need to complete the following steps:
State your tentative thesis or research question. At this point, you should have a tentative thesis or research question for your research paper. Include a one-sentence thesis or research question at the top of the bibliography, just below the title.
Keep in mind that refining your thesis or answering your research question is a recursive process. This means that while your tentative thesis or research question will guide your search, you may discover new information or arguments that persuade you to modify your thesis or approach. You can then use the revised thesis or research question to guide your research. At this point in the process, nothing should be set in stone.
Locate sources. The goal of this annotated bibliography assignment is to locate five scholarly sources that directly relate to your tentative thesis or research question. The sources can provide arguments or evidence in support of your position, or they can provide other significant positions on the topic.
Because the essays in our course readings are academic texts, you may use one of those to get your research started. The other four sources will be found using the academic research databases (e.g., Academic Search Complete, JSTOR, and Opposing Viewpoints in Context).
Write the annotations. The annotation should be written in complete sentences and should include the following information:
A summary of the source’s intended audience, thesis, and supporting arguments. Use active verbs. [Summary]
If the source supports your thesis or research question, an explanation of which information or arguments you will use in your essay. [Usability]
If the source provides a different or opposing position, an explanation of how you will respond to that position. [Usability]
An analysis of what makes this source a good one, including the credentials of the author(s) and the reliability of the arguments and information. [Summary]
Optional Template:
I have created a template that may help you complete this assignment if you’re having trouble organizing your thoughts and including all the essential content. Feel free to use this template for your annotated bibliography assignment if you’d like. You’ll need to change “he” to the appropriate pronoun depending on your author(s).
Summary Paragraph
[Name of author] is ___________________ (occupation). His credentials (as related to this topic) are ________________. He aims this article at ___________________ (audience). His purpose is to ___________ (persuade?) readers ____________________ (to believe what?). He writes in response to ___________________ (what is the current problem that has called this writing into being?). He claims _____________________ (thesis/claim/main idea). He explores/argues/reports _______________________ (Does he explore several different positions or does he take a stand and argue only his perspective? Does he simply report information? Discuss supporting arguments here.)
Usability Paragraph
I will use this information about _________________ (identify specific content you can use) to _____________________ (identify specifically what you can use the content for: background information, make/support a specific point, use a profound phrasing or statistic as evidence, etc.)
Formatting the bibliography. When writing the annotated bibliography, consider the following guidelines:
Use MLA style to provide a complete citation for the article.
MLA formatting and heading
MLA-formatted citation
An Annotated Bibliography in MLA format using the template above would look like this model.
Last Name 1
Last Name
Professor Dietz
ENGL 1302 0702
11 April 2022
Lesson 11: Annotated Bibliography
Thesis Statement: Social media negatively impacts the personality development of adolescents and young adults by changing their personality traits and deteriorating their mental health.
Alzahrani, Sultan, and Christian Bach. “Impact of Social Media on Personality Development.” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 3, no. 2, Jun. 2014, pp. 111-116. Innovative Space of Scientific Research Journals, https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.677.7189&rep=rep1&typedf.
Sultan Alzahrani is an assistant engineering professor at Arizona State University and a Research Co-Director at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology. His credentials related to social media’s impact on personality development are his Ph.D. in Computer Science and his ability to research for KACST. Christian Bach is a professor at the Technical University of Denmark and a Research scientist at Novozymes. His credentials are his master’s degree in Chemical Engineering and his doctorate in Biochemical Engineering. They aim this article at adolescents, parents, and fellow scholars. The authors’ purpose is to examine the impact of social media on the personality development of adolescents and to identify social media factors that influence personality development. They write in response to the extreme use of social media by adolescents to determine what effects social media has had on the youths’ personality development. They claim that four main social media factors influence personality development which include the culture of popularity, unreal standards of appearance, approval-seeking behavior, and prevalence of depression and anxiety. They explore the negative effects social media has on adolescents and present research that can be used to minimize the negative effects of social media on the personality development of adolescents.
I will use this information about the impacts social media has on the personalitydevelopment of adolescents to present the negative effects of social media profoundly inmy paper. This source supports my thesis and will be used in my paper to a great extent. Ican use this research information to prove the negative impacts including unrealstandards of appearance, approval-seeking behavior, and the widespread presence ofdepression and anxiety. I will specifically use this quote in my paper to further explainthe anxiety and depression impacts of social media: “These individuals are who are in theprocess of seeking their true identity and spend most of their time contemplating whatthey should commit to in life. This process can prove to be very anxiety-provoking.”
Brailovskaia, Julia, and Jürgen Margraf. “What Does Media Use Reveal About Personality and Mental Health? An Exploratory Investigation Among German Students.” PloS one, vol. 13, Jan. 2018, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5784983/. Julia Brailovskaia presently works at the Mental Health Research and Treatment Center, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. As an individual from the “Bochum Optimism and Mental Health (BOOM)” group she examines risk and defensive elements of psychological wellness. Her credentials related to the impacts social media has on personality development is her doctorate in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. She aims this article at social media users and adolescents, especially German students. Her purpose is to examine the relationship between personality traits, mental health variables, and social media use. She writes in response to the overly abundant use of social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumbler. She informs readers of her main research focus, which is on the relationship between mental health, personality, social media use, and social media addiction. She explores how social media affects personality traits like narcissism, self-esteem, extraversion, openness, neuroticism, depression, and anxiety.
I will use this information about the effects of social media on personality traits and mental health to add supporting evidence and research to my paper. I will use this research experiment and data to provide facts and statistics for my audience. This source provides both positive and negative effects of social media, which will help me complete my argument and counterargument.
Hamutoglu, Nazire, et al. “Investigating Direct and Indirect Effects of Social Media Addiction, Social Media Usage and Personality Traits on FOMO.” International Journal of Progressive Education, vol. 16, no. 2, 2020, pp. 248-261. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1249965.pdf.
Nazire Hamutoglu is an instructor at The Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence. Her credentials related to the impacts social media has on personality development is her doctorate in Computer and Instructional Technology Education from Eskisehir Technical University. She aims this article at social media users and adolescents, especially those who use YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Google. Her purpose is to inform readers about the effects of Social Media Addiction, Social Media Usage, and Personality traits. She writes in response to the relationship between social media addiction, FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), and social media addiction’s effect on personality traits. She claims that the common and extreme use of social media especially by adolescents may bring about adversities such as problematic social media usage, social media addiction, fear of missing out, and effects on personality traits. She examines all of the effects, including positive and negative, that social media has on adolescents who use social media. She also explores the direct relationship between specific personality traits, like agreeableness, and the amount of social media usage.
I will use this information about the effects of the extreme use of social media, especially by adolescents on personality traits to add more supporting information to my paper regarding my topic. I will specifically use facts and statistics from this journal article in my research paper. For example, I will use this fact, “42% of the world’s population actively uses social media, and 39% of them use social media actively on mobile devices.” I will also use the results of this study on personality traits to further my argument on the negative effects social media has on personality traits.
Kennedy, Katie. “Positive and Negative Effects of Social Media on Adolescent Well-Being.” 2019. Minnesota State University, Master’s thesis. Cornerstone: A Collection of Scholarly and Creative Works for Minnesota State University, Mankato. https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1923&context=etds.
Katie Kennedy is a Health and Physical Education Teacher and a District Wellness Coordinator. Her credentials related to the impacts social media has on personality development is her master’s degree of science in school health from Minnesota State University. She aims this article at social media users, adolescents, and parents. Her purpose is to inform readers of the positive and negative effects of social media on the welfare of adolescents. Moreover, she compares the top four social media platforms used by adolescents including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube. She writes in response to the extreme amount of social media use in adolescents and explains the good and bad impacts of social media on the youth. She claims that the research she performed focused mainly on the negative effects of social media including lack of quality and quantity of sleep, anxiety, anger, drug use, fear of missing out, body image, bullying, and depression. She explores both the positive and negative effects of social media on adolescents instead of just the negative impacts. She offers loads of information including the effects of social media, the kinds of personality traits that are affected the most, and the extreme use of social media by adolescents and young adults.
I will use this information about the positive and negative effects of social media on the welfare of adolescents to further my research paper on the effects of social media on personality traits. Mostly, welfare and personality traits in this context go hand in hand. I will specifically use this source to provide information on the major negative impacts of social media by providing statistics and in-depth explanations. Moreover, I will do the same for the positive impacts in my counterargument.
Mucan, Burcu, et al. “The Relationship Between Personality Traits and Social Media Use.” Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal, vol. 41, no. 3, Apr. 2013, pp. 517+. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://go-gale-com.northcenttexascollegelibrary.idm.oclc.org/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=Journals&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=MultiTab&hitCount=79514&searchType=BasicSearchForm¤tPosition=1&docId=GALE%7CA333842538&docType=Report&sort=Relevance&contentSegment=ZXAY-MOD1&prodId=OVIC&pageNum=1&contentSet=GALE%7CA333842538&searchId=R1&userGroupName=txshracd2531&inPS=true.
Burcu Mucan is a professor at Dumlupinar University. Her credentials related to the impacts social media has on personality development is her doctorate in Business Administration. Mucan et al. aim this article at social media users. Mucan et al.’s purpose is to inform readers about the impacts social media use has on personality traits. Mucan et al. write in response to the extreme social media usage in young adults and how it affects different age groups, genders, and income levels. Mucan et al. claim that people with personality traits including conscientiousness, openness to experience, and life satisfaction tend to use social media more. Mucan et al. explore the power of social media use against the personality traits of openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Mucan et al. explore both sides, the positive and negative effects, of the relationship between personality traits and social media use.
I will use this information about the positive impacts social media has on personality traits due to the amount of social media usage. I will use this information to establish my counterargument regarding the positive effects on personality traits. I will specifically use this information to explain how social media in some instances could make a positive impact on personality traits. I will also use the statistics available in this journal article to help me develop my research paper.