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Proposal with Annotated Bibliography
Purpose
This assignment is asking you to produce an exploratory document. As you commit to a topic to examine for the Conference Paper and Methodological/Pedagogical Plan assignments, you will want to ensure yourself that you have a viable topic to pursue and that you are headed in the right direction. By doing preliminary research and organizing your thinking, you not only address this issue for yourself, you also prove your progress to the instructor. Most importantly, you want to use this assignment to tell the instructor what you know about your topic at this point in time. If you are struggling to put together a topic for the Conference Paper and/or Methodological/Pedagogical Plan, this is your opportunity to articulate the problems that you are experiencing and your strategies for solving these problems.
Although, this assignment will give you an opportunity to explore rhetoric related discussions beyond what we will be covering in class, you are encouraged to continue to do more outside research for your projects throughout the course of the semester.
Instructions
The instructions provided below are rhetorical parameters; therefore use them to guide your composition of this document. Your proposal should address the following:
Conference Paper
The Problem
- What problem–application of rhetoric–are you addressing?
- Why is the topic relevant?
Current Knowledge
- What do you currently know about the topic that you are exploring? the context that you examining?
- What have you learned about these issues from the preliminary research that you have have done? You should answer this question by synthesizing the research that you present in the annotated bibliography.
Current Directions
- What is your preliminary argument? How will you support this argument?
- What problems are you having or anticipating? How will you address these issues? What guidance do you need from the instructor?
Pedagogical/Methodological Plan
The Problem or Context
What problem do you want to investigate? Or where will you be teaching?
Current Knowledge
- What do you currently know about the topic or context (i.e., audience, resources, space) that you are planning on working in?
- What have you learned about these topic or space from the preliminary research that you have have done? You should answer this question by synthesizing the research that you present in the annotated bibliography.
- What do you need to know before you develop and execute your plan?
Current Directions
- Breifly articulate your preliminary plan?
- What problems are you having or anticipating? How will you address these issues? What guidance do you need from the instructor?
You will be responsible for finding and reading at least five peer-reviewed journal articles related to either your Conference Paper or your Methodological/Pedagogical Plan. For each article that you have read you will write a 250 word entry in which you...
- identify the argument
- summarize the main points of support
- explain how it will be relevant to your inquiry
Criteria
The Proposal with Annotated Bibliography is due on February 8, 2005.
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 projects that your audience (i.e., the instructor) has a clear sense of what you have done and either what will be doing or what you want to do
- your projects' viability
- an annotated bibliography that provides the audience with a clear understanding of each article's content. Likewise, in this section do you remain brief and only highlight relevant points?
- an informed understanding and discussion of rhetoric and its application
- an ability to articulate your knowledge of rhetoric and your own research and writing processes
- appropriate use of conventions, including MLA or APA citation formatting
last.updated 01.11.05