Today’s plan:
- Attendance
- Review: Annotated Bibliography Assignment [Syllabus Changes and Due Dates]
- Homework
Annotated Bibliography Assignment
First, let’s review what I shared last class:
We have spent the first 1/3 of the course identifying and developing a topic. Now it is time to invest the majority of our energy into researching that topic. For the next several weeks you will produce an annotated bibliography, or a collection of research writing that will provide the bulk of the content for your papers.
My expectation is that you will read 75 pages of research per week for the next several weeks. For each thing you read, you will write up an annotation. I have a sample format that you will be required to use for the annotated bibliography.
Today I want to highlight a few changes to the syllabus and specify a total a count for annotations:
- 3 annotations from your proposal expanded/rewritten into my annotation form
- 2 annotations from Thursday the 16th’s computer lab session / homework
- 1 annotation for homework Tuesday the 21st
- 2 annotations for homework on Thursday the 23rd
- 1 annotation for homework on Tuesday the 28th
- 2 annotations for homework Thursday the 2nd
So that adds up to a total count of 11 sources. The final due date for these annotations will be on Monday March 6th. March 7th and 9th will be one-on-one meetings to go over proposed paper outlines.
A few comments from some of the annotations I’ve read thus far:
Homework
I would like you to do another annotation. You should have 6 annotations in your bibliography by Thursday. At least 3 of these should be scholarly articles.
