UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER SPRING 2017
Program for Writing & Rhetoric JOE HATFIELD
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Description from the course syllabus: For this assignment, students use their informational literacy skills to locate at least six scholarly sources for their final project. This assignment, in turn, assesses students’ abilities to conduct preliminary research for a full-length essay. All sources must be academic in nature, but students must include at least one book source and at least one publication from a peer-reviewed journal. Each source must be formatted according to MLA standards, and should be followed by a half-page summary of each source in the students’ own words. Thus, the entire bibliography should encompass at least three full pages. The annotated bibliography gives students a chance to use sources to build a well-researched argument for a final essay. More instructions for this assignment will be provided on the course site. Students will turn in this assignment through D2L by 11:59 p.m. on the due date. Instructions: This assignment prepares you to conduct research for the final rhetorical analysis. You should begin by collecting six scholarly sources (books, chapters from books, and/or peer-reviewed journal articles) that you believe will help you write your essay. At least one of these sources should be a book, and at least one these sources should be a peer-reviewed journal article. The other four sources can be any form of academic citation you feel would be most helpful. Use the skills learned during the library session and the RIOT Tutorials in order to help you locate sources. Once you have your sources, you are now ready to begin creating the annotated bibliography. The annotated bibliography should be formatted the same as any MLA essay. However, instead of writing an essay after the title of your paper, you will immediately begin the bibliography. Each source should be properly formatted according to MLA standards. For example: Keith, William M. and Christian O. Lundberg. The Essential Guide to Rhetoric. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008. Then hit enter and begin writing the annotation for the source. Each annotation should be 100-150 words. The first 50-75 words should summarize the main ideas, arguments, and theories presented in the source. The second 50-75 words should reflect on how you believe the source will be useful for your project. As soon as you finish the annotation, hit enter, type out your next citation, hit enter again, and complete the next annotation.
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER SPRING 2017
Program for Writing & Rhetoric JOE HATFIELD
More information on how to complete a thorough annotated bibliography can be found here: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/03/ Your paper should look similar to this: Last name 1 Student Name Professor Name Course Title and Section Date Annotated Bibliography Keith, William M. and Christian O. Lundberg. The Essential Guide to Rhetoric. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008.
50-75 WORDS OF SUMMARY FOLLOWED BY 50-75 WORDS OF REFLECTION.
Croxall, Brian. “Twitter, Tumblr, and Microblogging.” The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media, edited by Marie-Laure Ryan, Lori Emerson, and Benjamin J. Robertson, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014, 492-496.
50-75 WORDS OF SUMMARY FOLLOWED BY 50-75 WORDS OF REFLECTION.
Sharma, Sanjay. “Black Twitter? Racial Hashtags, Networks, and Contagion.” New Formations: A Journal of Culture/Theory/Politics, 78, no. 1, 2013, 46-64.
50-75 WORDS OF SUMMARY FOLLOWED BY 50-75 WORDS OF REFLECTION.
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER SPRING 2017
Program for Writing & Rhetoric JOE HATFIELD
Bitzer. Lloyd F. “The Rhetorical Situation.” Philosophy & Rhetoric, 1, no. 1, 1968, 1-14.
50-75 WORDS OF SUMMARY FOLLOWED BY 50-75 WORDS OF REFLECTION.
