"Office of Admission." Harvard University. President and Fellows of
Harvard University, Web. 19 Feb 2010.
It is know just by looking at the Harvard website that there truly is a sense of entitlement embedded into their students before they even arrive at the school. The students are told the graduates who they are to follow in the footsteps of and how they are the future leaders of America. Their statistics and what they choose to advertise on their website is that coming out of their school they will go wherever they want.
O’Shaughnessy, Lynn. "5 Reasons to Attend a Liberal Arts College."
CBS Money Watch (2010): n. pag. Web. 15 Feb 2010.
O’Shaughnessy discusses in this article her feelings on why private (not necessarily just Ivy League) education is the better way to go. She talks about how the small and more personal class sizes aid in student development for their futures in the workplace. O’Shaughnessy highly discourages the impersonal qualities of the large scale university. With this it is safe to assume that she believes the high price of private education is worth it.
Kathryn --
ReplyDeleteThese are not scholarly sources and probably should not be part of your annotated bibliography. You also do not give the link to O'Shaughnessy:
http://moneywatch.bnet.com/saving-money/blog/college-solution/five-reasons-to-attend-a-liberal-arts-college/1390/
The URL is critical for proper MLA citation.
I read this source. As a primary document it might be useful for pointing to the way that people talk about the value of private liberal arts schools. But that does not seem your intent. As a secondary source, it is really worthless. Good perhaps for scouting the territory, but absolutely not worth citing in your paper.
The same goes for the Harvard website -- which is also incomplete if you do not include the URL. This might be an interesting primary source, worth analyzing closely for the messages it sends to applicants. But as a secondary source, it is worthless.
What happened to your bibliography? That seemed more promising.
Looking again at your annotations, i see that maybe you intend to use them as primary sources, which is good. But I really wanted to see people start annotating their secondary sources which are going to take you more time to digest and make sense of. This seems like low-hanging fruit by comparison.
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