Taylor Rose Shea

Annotated Bibliography
The topic I chose for my research paper is the push for young girls to become
interested in math, technology, and the sciences, mainly at the elementary and
middle school levels. When choosing a topic, I wrote down some ideas of
interesting things to research, and then from there narrowed it down to the topics I
could easily research. Since this topic is somewhat related to the topic of my
argumentative essay (formal paper 2), I already have some good background
knowledge to work off of and I have opinions about this topic which will help me to
stay focused and write the paper with my ideas in mind, rather than get bored
writing about a topic I dont care about at all. I am clearly interested in this topic
because my life is directly affected by it, considering I am a female going into
engineering. I plan on introducing some of the aspects of society that cause young
girls to become discouraged about entering these types of fields because they are
dominated by men. Then I will explain these programs and giving examples of
these programs and share my thoughts on the situation and my reasoning for
thinking such thoughts. My thesis statement is this: Programs in schools that
encourage young girls to exercise their interests in math, technology, and sciences
are progressive for achieving gender equality in our society.
Sources:
A. Godfrey, Elaine. "Children's toys push girls out of STEM fields." Iowa State
Daily, September 06, 2013.
http://www.iowastatedaily.com/opinion/article_0d1d5f4e-166e-11e3-a13a0019bb2963f4.html (accessed October 28, 2013).
This source is useful because it introduces one of the factors of this problem
in our society that I will address with the main point of my paper.
B. AAUW, "STEM Education: AAUW: Empowering Women since 1881." Accessed
October 28, 2013. http://www.aauw.org/what-we-do/stem-education/.
This source is useful because it is an example of one of the programs I plan
on talking about in the body paragraphs of my paper.
C. Stewart, Concetta. "STEM: Raising Awareness, Expanding Access." Girls in
STEM (blog), October 23, 2013. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/concetta-mstewart/stem-raising-awareness-ex_b_4151409.html (accessed October 29,
2013).
This source is useful because it shows someone elses educated opinion on
the topic of my paper and will help me to add to my own thoughts and
reasoning.
D. National Girls Collaborative Project, "Engaging Girls in STEM." Last modified
2011. Accessed October 29, 2013. http://www.ngcproject.org/engaging-girlsstem.
This source is useful because it is another prime example of one of these
programs I mention in my thesis and it goes into detail about functions and
goals of the program.
E. Mishra, Taniya. "ATTN Girls: Stay Interested in STEM."Girls in STEM (blog),
October 15, 2013. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/taniyamishra/girls_stem_b_4101588.html (accessed October 29, 2013).

This source is useful because this blog entry was written by a woman who
has experienced this situation first hand and has opinions and knowledge
about the topic.