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Progressive Annotated Bibliography

Purpose

Throughout the semester the instructor has provided you with readings that present the breadth of the language arts field. As you become immersed in both this discipline and profession, you will want to pursue other perspectives or focus on specific issues (e.g., grammar, voice, technology, testing).

The Progressive Annotated Bibliography gives you the opportunity to expand your knowledge of language arts. You will want to use these sources to both enrich your contribution to class discussions and to support the documents that you draft for your portfolio. 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

Find four refereed journal or edited collection articles from language arts or composition oriented journals (see resources for a list of some of these journals). Refereed articles are articles in your field of study that have been judged worthy of publication by other scholars in this field (If you have any questions whether an article 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 support
• that are fairly recent (1999-2004)

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 the MLA format.
• Under each citation write a 250 word annotation for that article. For each entry...
  
  • identify the author's argument–whether it is implicit or inferred
  • summarize the main points that the author makes to support the argument
  • explain how this text will be relevant to your own personal inquiry

Use Blackboard "Messages" to email your entry in the body of an email to the instructor. The program may shift some of the formatting; do not sweat this.

Instructions-Writing (Final Submission)

For the Teaching Portfolio, you will do the following to the Annotated Bibliography:

• revise the entries
• compile the entries
• compose a 300 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 four sources were collectively relevant to your inquiry.
• print the evaluated entries

Criteria

Logistic:

• no more than 250 words per entry

• The four submission deadlines for the annotated bibliography are...

  • February 1, 2006
  • February 15, 2006
  • February 22, 2006
  • March 15, 2006
    
    
• each entry will be given a process evaluation.

The revised final draft with the introduction is due in the teaching portfolio on April 25th .

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 the article that your audience gets a clear sense of its content? Likewise do you only highlight important information?
• an ability to synthesize all four articles
• an informed understanding and discussion of language arts and related issues
• appropriate use of conventions, including MLA citation formatting