User:Naomi.nonogawa

Hey! My name is Naomi Nonogawa and I am a first year USYD student currently studying a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Advanced Studies (Agriculture)

 Tutorial activity 3: Annotated Bibliography 

Selected feature article: Lady Gaga

Selected source the article has referenced: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38218247

Reliability + usefulness of source based on:

1) Scholarship (author's background, where source was published, is info within source independently verifiable):


 * Source is found on BBC news website (US and Canada)
 * Unknown author
 * Source explains a TV interview about the artist speaking publicly about being sexually assaulted at 19 and how it led to her suffering with PTSD
 * Artist revealing secret --> TV interview --> BBC article (independently verifiable)

2) Context (age of source relative to topic, intent of information, targeted audience):


 * The BBC news article was last edited 6 December 2016
 * Article includes a link to the TV interview revealing sexual assault of the artist, which was published Dec 6 2016
 * Date of source published is relative to news/topic at the time
 * Purpose of releasing information --> informing audience of recently discovered information about Lady Gaga
 * However, Gaga's news targeted the homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender teenagers living in the Ali Forney Centre (NY). Gaga explained to them that her trauma allowed her to understand others --> inspiration to all, especially in the LGBT community
 * Inspiration to LGBT community, however the general public can also be stated as the targeted audience --> BBC news is a world-known source

3) Content (does source omit important details and overrepresent others?, is info fact/opinion, style + structure)


 * Information within the article is strictly factual, no personal judgement or opinion is evident --> especially as there is no specific author
 * Structure of the source is similar to most articles
 * Headings where necessary
 * Images and videos relevant to article
 * Links to other websites/sources in paragraphs
 * Article does not disregard important details. Since it is quite a short article, and with one relative topic, components of the article are not being over/underrepresented.
 * Everything in the article is briefly explained rather than going more in depth in some points than others