HW 28 - Informal Research - Internet, Magazines, and TV Shows

Please identify five or more sources of insight into "cool" in our culture. Internet sites might be the easiest - often a good idea to start with Wikipedia - but you're welcome to use TV, movies, magazines, newspapers, or other sources of popular culture.

Please make an annotated bibliography of 3 or more sources - each should include correct MLA citation, a very brief summary of most important points (2-4 sentences) and a very brief analysis of the utility of the source for particular topics or arguments (3-5 sentences).

You could do worse than using this as a model (but shorter and sharper - one mini paragraph for summary, an additional mini-paragraph). Actually, use the following as a model -

Andy's Model:
Viren, Tom et al. "How To Be Cool." http://www.wikihow.com/Be-Cool. WikiHow, n.d. Web. 2 December 2009.
This article, compiled and edited by many authors, attempts to provide advice of how to become cool. It contains a list of suggestions, additional tips, and warnings. Many of these tips will be familiar - "Be yourself" and "Be confident" - and others less so "Find a way to love learning."

This short guide deserves reading for its helpful simplification - in the introduction it reduces coolness to being confident, unique, and on friendly terms with everyone. The copious suggestions, tips, and warnings also reflect a variety of the dominant perspectives about coolness - which seems to primarily be understood as being admired and liked by the masses as an authentic and friendly and socially-adept human being.

Your goals with this annotated bibliography include figuring out some more about cool using others thoughts, finding out what others mean when they talk about being cool, and identifying resources worth coming back to (or not worth coming back to) for yourself and your triangle partners when writing your end of the unit papers.

Due Tuesday, December 8 at 8:30am.