Annotated Bibliography (%)
Annotated bibliographies can serve several purposes, such as explaining how your sources inform your work or making sure you fully understand your sources and how to properly cite them. Some professors may ask you to submit one with your final research project. Others may ask you to create one before you begin writing.
This assignment will blend both approaches. That is, you will submit bibliographic entries throughout the term, three (or four) at a time. In the end, you will have annotated ten sources and detailed how you have used each source in accordance with Bizup’s B. E. A. M. Each annotation should be brief, about 150-200 words.
You should also compile all your sources and reading notes in Zotero.
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Entries 1 & 2: Oct. 6th.
Purpose / Goals: The Annotated Bibliography gives you the opportunity to explain how your research informs your project, in this case, your final Built Environment Analysis. It also encourages you to demonstrate to us how you are using them. This assignment, furthermore, gives you further practice in the academic forms of summary analysis. Rather than thinking of sources as things to check off (must have 3 scholarly sources and 2 popular sources), this assignment asks you to do something with them in accordance with BEAM, which reminds us that no source is inherently good or bad.
Background: “materials a writer relies on for general information or for factual evidence.”
Exhibit: “materials a writer analyzes or interprets.”
Argument: “materials whose claims a writer engages.”
Method: “materials from which a writer takes a governing concept or derives a manner of working.”
How: The annotations are approximately two paragraph summaries of each of the ten articles (i.e., per work). Use the Single Author Templates to do this. We will work on how to annotate in class, and I will provide more detailed examples.
I will assess these according to the rubric found here.
Example structure:
- Exhibit:
Curzan, A. “Teaching the Politics of Standard English.” Journal of English
Linguistics 30.4 (2002): 339-52. Print.
- Paragraph 1: Summary / Analysis using the single author template (what you used for the Reading Analysis).
- Paragraph 2: How you plan to use it and put it in conversation with the other sources.
- Background:
Curzan, A. “Teaching the Politics of Standard English.” Journal of English
Linguistics 30.4 (2002): 339-52. Print.
- Paragraph 1: Summary / Analysis using the single author template.
- Paragraph 2: How you plan to use it and put it in conversation with the other sources.