Consider a problem you would like to tackle for the solutions project. Use prewriting techniques to explore it further. Although you can select whatever topic most interests you, your solution should reflect some consideration of sustainability (meeting the needs of the present generation while taking care of the future). When you have refined your problem an annotated bibliography consisting of the following is needed:

• a source from the CQ Researcher
• a source from EBSCO Academic Search Premier
• a source from either the US Major Dailies or Opposing Viewpoints
• one additional source from your choice of either EBSCO Academic Search Premier, CQ Researcher, Opposing Viewpoints, or US Major Dailies.

These sources should be related to the background of your problem, or similar problems.

Once you have your resources, read through them carefully, reviewing for quality, timeliness, credibility, and usefulness.

The annotated bibliography will first cite the source in M L A format, and that covers the following questions as appropriate:

1. What is the main point of this source?
2. What are the author's qualifications to make him/her an authority on the topic? Is the author too biased to be reliable?
3. Who is the audience?
4. What is this source's relationship to other resources: supportive, irrelevant, another point of view?
5. What do you think of the source? Does anything stand out as especially useful for your own research: statistics, graphs, etc.?
6. Where and how did you find the source?