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BEAM Your Annotated Bibliography (Medina CTW2)

Start BEAMing Your Topic

The BEAM method asks you to consider how you will use and integrate sources into your paper, and to identify the different roles each source will play in your writing.  Review and reference the definitions below to guide your analysis and selection of sources.

ACTIVITY:  Make a copy of this Google worksheet that you will use to begin identifying sources using BEAM.

Overview of BEAM research method

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Justina Elmore, University of Rochester. Adapted from Kristin M. Woodward & Kate Ganski's "What Could A Writer Do With This Source?" {{cc-by-4.0}}