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Progressive
Annotated Bibliography
Purpose
Throughout
the semester the instructor has provided you with readings that cover
the history and breadth of L2 writing. As you become immersed in both
these discussions and the profession, you will want to pursue other perspectives
or focus on specific issues (e.g., linguistic diversity, grammar, World
Englishes, dialect).
The Progressive
Annotated Bibliography gives you the opportunity to expand yours and your
peers' knowledge of L2 writing. You will want to use these sources to
both enrich your contribution to class discussions and to support the
documents that you draft for this class. Likewise, you will be posting
your entry to a public space on Blackboard, which will allow your peers
to see other perspectives in these fields. The progressive nature of these
submissions allows you to use the instructor's comments on previous submissions
to decide how you will compose latter submissions.
Instructions-Choosing
Articles
For your
entries, you will want to find five
academic, refereed articles or chapters about L2 writing. Refereed scholarship
has been judged worthy of publication by other experts in fields related
to L2 writing. Texts that qualify include...
- academic
journal articles
- chapters
from an edited collection
- chapters
from an academic monographs (no more than two chapters per book)
Texts that
do not qualify include...
- most
popular publications, such as certain magazines and web pages (consult
instructor)
- newsletters
- book
reviews
- academics'
websites
These list,
of course, are not exhaustive. If you have any questions whether an article
or chapter qualifies, consult the instructor.
You should
choose the texts...
- based
upon issues that you are interested in learning more about
- based
upon positions/philosophies that you want to both support and refute
- that
are fairly recent (1990-2008), unless you are working with seminal pieces
- that
have not been annotated by your peers in previous weeks; one purpose
of this assignment is to develop a extensive resource for the class.
Variations
from these parameters are acceptable, but consult the instructor first.
Instructions-Writing
(Progressive Submissions)
For each
annotation entry, you will want to...
- Compose
a bibliographic citation for the article you have read. You should use
MLA or APA formatting; be consistent.
- Under
each citation write a 250
word annotation for that article. For each entry...
- identify
the author's argument (sometimes it will be explicit; other times
it will be inferred)
-
briefly summarize the main points that the author makes to support
the argument
- briefly
review the article: Would you recommend this article to your peers?
Why or why not? Or under what circumstances would you make the recommendation?
(You are encouraged to use the first-person singular pronoun to
distinguish your voice from the author(s) you are reviewing)
While these
three points need to be addressed, this list does not define the order
in which these points need to be presented.
When you
post the PAB to the Blackboard
"Discussion Board," cut and paste your entries into the body
of the form field; do not try to attach a file. The program may shift
some of the formatting and change some characters if you cut and paste
from MS Word; do not sweat this.
To help
your peers use your entry as a resource provide a title that identifies
the author and article. Use the titles listed on the calendar
as a model.
Criteria
Logistic:
- no more
than 250 words per entry; this is an exercise in writing brief, yet
detailed texts
- single
spaced
-
The
five submission deadlines for the annotated bibliography are...
Use
the Blackboard
"Discussion Board" to post your entry to the instructor
and the class. You will submit all of your entries in the body of
a discussion board post.
- The PAB
assignment will cumulatively be worth 50 points. All students will start
with 40 points and your grade will be adjusted according to the evaluation
of each of the five entries. Each entry will be graded using the following
scale...
check
(or 0) = You did the work satisfactorily and on time. If it is an
earlier entry, use the instructor's comments to guide how you compose
future entries
+1,
+2= You demonstrated various degrees of engagement with the ideas
and you turned it in on time. Use features that the instructor liked
as a model for future entries
1,
-2= Your work demonstrates a misunderstanding of the assignment
or minimal effort, shows that you do not understand what an academic
text entails, or was not turned in on time.
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4 = No submission
In addition
to the general evaluation
criteria, the instructor will be looking for evidence of...
- a sense
of audiencedo you provide enough information and detail about
the article that your audience of peers gets a clear sense of the article's
content? Likewise do you only highlight important information?
- an informed
understanding and discussion of L2 writing, as well as other topics
the text covers
- do you
provide a substantiated opinion of the text?
- appropriate
use of conventions, including MLA or APA citation formatting
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