assignments ENGL493 Seminar in Writing and Writing Studies: Annotated Bibliography & Presentation
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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY & PRESENTATION
I am not asking you to do what would look like a traditional research paper the way you would probably be asked to do if you were in a literature class. This is because, as I have said elsewhere, you have spent a lot of your academic life learning the field of literary analysis and criticism. For most of you, this is really your first semester working in Rhetoric & Composition. I think that the best way to give you some depth in the field is to backwards design somebody else's research. So, in the second half the semester, you will take one of the required reading and reverse research it by doing an annotated bibliography of the sources the essay cites in its bibliography (there is an episode of the show Felicity here that would be totally appropriate to talk about, but for the sake of time and due to the fact that you guys probably don't even know what that show is, I'll just skip it).
Some of the essays have very, very long citations, while others have quite a bit fewer. Students should do between 10 and 15 annotations for 10 to 15 articles that the author or authors use. We will talk in class about what those annotations should look like.
On Presentation Day
On the day we read the essay you've reverse researched, you are responsible for leading the class in discussion of the important parts of the article. Despite that fact, you should be prepared to talk no more than 10 to 15 minutes, including discussion, about the essay. Your presentation should include the following:
1) A writing prompt that the information you learned from reading and annotating the citations inspires. If this seems hard or confusing, we can talk about i. It is hard.
2) A sort of pop up video style of presentation (another pop culture reference you might not get) where you provide details about the specifics of the the larger argument of the cited text in the essay. Be able to talk about why this reference works to make this particular point.
3) A general sense of what this body of research on this topic seems to care about. NOTE: when you are presenting your annotated bib, you do not need to do a reading journal for that day--even though you are only presenting on one of two or three articles).
For the Final Portfolio
The last questions above should form the basis of a three-page, typed, double-spaced reflection (in a 10 or 12 point non-goofy font) that will be included along with your completed annotations in your final portfolio at the end of the semester. There will be time in class to workshop your reflection and your annotations before you turn them in in the portfolio.
I am not asking you to do what would look like a traditional research paper the way you would probably be asked to do if you were in a literature class. This is because, as I have said elsewhere, you have spent a lot of your academic life learning the field of literary analysis and criticism. For most of you, this is really your first semester working in Rhetoric & Composition. I think that the best way to give you some depth in the field is to backwards design somebody else's research. So, in the second half the semester, you will take one of the required reading and reverse research it by doing an annotated bibliography of the sources the essay cites in its bibliography (there is an episode of the show Felicity here that would be totally appropriate to talk about, but for the sake of time and due to the fact that you guys probably don't even know what that show is, I'll just skip it).
Some of the essays have very, very long citations, while others have quite a bit fewer. Students should do between 10 and 15 annotations for 10 to 15 articles that the author or authors use. We will talk in class about what those annotations should look like.
On Presentation Day
On the day we read the essay you've reverse researched, you are responsible for leading the class in discussion of the important parts of the article. Despite that fact, you should be prepared to talk no more than 10 to 15 minutes, including discussion, about the essay. Your presentation should include the following:
1) A writing prompt that the information you learned from reading and annotating the citations inspires. If this seems hard or confusing, we can talk about i. It is hard.
2) A sort of pop up video style of presentation (another pop culture reference you might not get) where you provide details about the specifics of the the larger argument of the cited text in the essay. Be able to talk about why this reference works to make this particular point.
3) A general sense of what this body of research on this topic seems to care about. NOTE: when you are presenting your annotated bib, you do not need to do a reading journal for that day--even though you are only presenting on one of two or three articles).
For the Final Portfolio
The last questions above should form the basis of a three-page, typed, double-spaced reflection (in a 10 or 12 point non-goofy font) that will be included along with your completed annotations in your final portfolio at the end of the semester. There will be time in class to workshop your reflection and your annotations before you turn them in in the portfolio.
