Continuing Annotated

BibsTuesday, 5/29

Proposals?

Genre conventions?

http://vimeo.com/42828824

How does this break the genre conventions?

Annotated Bib: Why should I write one?

To learn about your topic

Learn “what’s been said”

Develop your own point of view

To see what the issues are, what people are arguing about

Journal

Look at all of the sources you have so far. If you had to group them into categories, what categories would you choose? Which sources would you put together?

Example: patient/nurse communication education: Smith, Jones

patient/nurse communication in major hospitals: Swales, McDaniels

Annotated Bib: Format

Citation (MLA/APA)

Precis

How does this source relate to the others? Include at least one quote in this section.

Citation

Precis

How does this source relate to the others?

Repeat for 10 articles

Example, part 1

Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. New York: Anchor Books, 1995. Print.

Anne Lamott, a professional writer, in her 1995 work, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, asserts that students argue mostly with their own inner critic when writing a paper. She supports this assertion through a variety of anecdotes, in which she uses humor to display students’ insecurities with their own writing abilities. Her purpose was to show that students should be more confident when writing, because they are often their own tough critics. Her intended audience includes writing students and teachers, and she targets this audience by using anecdotes from both the student and the teacher perspectives on writing.

Example, part 2

Lamott’s book is relevant to my topic because she focuses on the students’ writing processes as determinants of their confidence with writing. Stating, “Students’ lack of confidence with writing often limits their abilities,” meaning that students limit their writing potential when they doubt themselves, Lamott argues that writing teachers should work to increase their students’ confidence with writing (89). This article relates to the claims made by Swales, but he references the discourse communities in which students write, while Lammott speaks more directly about individual students and their writing processes. This article can also be related to Grant-Davie, since he discusses rhetorical situations and their influence on how students might target audiences through their writing.

Other reminders

List in alphabetical order, just like you would in a list of Works cited

Double-space the entries

Do not number them

Heading should be in MLA/APA format

Shoot for at least 10 citations

Peer draft this Thursday, May 31st. Final Monday, June 4th

Don’t worry about intro until Thursday

Some details…

Article titles in quotes

Book titles and journal titles in italics

Punctuation goes inside quotation marks: Devitt states, “Genres are reactions to life,”

which means… Devitt states, “Genres are reactions to life”

(234).

Preliminary genre analysis

Read over my comments. All of them.

If you’d like to revise, send me an email to make an appointment during office hours. Come to appointment so that we can talk about your revision.

All appointments must be made by Thursday, May 31st

Wednesday, 5/30

Work on your annotated bib

Come up and discuss your genre analysis revision, if you’d like

Ask questions, and be ready for peer-review tomorrow. Bring a hard copy or a saved draft on your computer.