Progressive Annotated Bibliography [PAB]
Purpose
An annotated bibliography gives you the opportunity to conduct textual research beyond the assigned readings in the course and allows you to engage with the subject of the course in a way that is personally relevant.
The progressive nature of this annotated bibliography encourages you to do this research over a period of time and allows you to receive feedback on individual entries which you can use to guide the composition of latter entries
Instructions–Research
Starting the fifth week of the semester, you will begin doing textual research for your Final Document. When you start doing this assignment you should be close to designating the literacy context/practice that you want to examine at length.
The first two sources that you find and annotate will be popular sources which includes magazines (e.g., Time, Newsweek, The Nation, Popular Science), web sites, newspapers, blogs, newsletters and any other sources that 1) get published on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis and 2) do not have a strict peer review by experts in the field of study.
The second two sources that you find and annotate will be academic sources which include journal articles, edited collections, book chapters by professionals in a field, rather than journalists. Academic sources are often identified as 1) being peer-reviewed, 2) being published three or fours times a year, 3) having citations to other research, and 4) having the authors associated with a university or professional institution.
The fifth source is your choice. If you have any questions about the distinction between these type of sources, please contact the instructor.
Instructions– Progressive Writing
On the designated dates, you will submit a 250 word entry. For this entry, you will...
- document the source using either APA or MLA formatting; be consistent and correct
- identify the argument
- summarize the main points of support
- explain the credibility of the argument
- explain how it will be relevant to your inquiry
Submit these entries to the instructor in the body of an email. It is recommended that you pay attention to the comments that the instructor makes on the earlier submission as a guide for composing the latter ones.
Instructions– Portfolio
For the final submission of the Annotated Bibliography, you...
- do not have to revise the entries
- will print the evaluated entries
- compose a 250 word introduction in which explain what an audience would learn from reading your annotated bibliography. Rather than summarizing (restating what each entry is about), use this opportunity to synthesize (find important threads that run through all of the sources or explain how the sources "talk" to each other) the work. In this discussion you should also explain how these five sources were collectively relevant to your inquiry.
- include citations (without annotations) for any other sources that you read for your research project.
Criteria
The Final Submission of the Progressive Annotated Bibliography is due with the Portfolio on April 26, 2005.
The first draft will be evaluated as part of your participation grade and will receive one grade for both content and convention. The final submission will be part of the portfolio grade.
In addition to the general evaluation criteria, the instructor will be looking for evidence of...
- a sense of audience–do you provide enough information and detail about your sources that the reader gets a good sense of the work without having to go to the source? Likewise, in this section do you remain brief and only highlight relevant points?
- an understanding of the sources (i.e., the argument, the evidence, the bias) and how they relate to the course content
- an ability to articulate your knowledge of the course content
- appropriate use of conventions, including MLA or APA citation formatting
last.updated 01.11.05