Annotated Bibliography Assignment Details

Hello all,

UPDATE: I have extended the deadline for the annotated bibliography until Friday 4/12 at 5:00pm. You can send it to me as an email attachment or bring it to my office before then. (If you want to get it out of the way, of course, you can still turn it in on Wednesday in class.)

If you can't find your handout with the assignment details, I have included a link below where you can save or download it.

Link to Annotated Bibliography Assignment and Grading Rubric

Notes for Annotated Bibliography Assignment

The annotated bibliography is due at the beginning of class on W 4/10.

Example of a Source in MLA with Annotation (You only need to include the research question once in your bibliography)

Research Question: How is social media changing how businesses and customers interact?

Jones, Steve. “Blogging as a Two-Way Communication Medium” Journal of LIBR 1101. 4.1 (2013): 100-152.

This article by Jones, a media and communications professor at the University of LIBR 1101, outlines how blogging is radically different from traditional media such as radio and television due to its two-way nature; that is, it allows people to consume as well as create information in the form of comments and their own blog posts. I will use this resource to demonstrate how blogging, a key type of social media, must be used differently by businesses than their other promotional channels due to this difference. Instead of merely broadcasting information to their customers, they must include those customers in the conversation and allow for them to share their own thoughts and opinions.

Additional tips

For websites, you should demonstrate why the chosen source is credible and trustworthy in your annotation (by briefly mentioning the organization behind the content and/or the identity of the author, for example).

 

State of the Project Presentations: In Class 3/25 and 3/27

Assignment: Give a presentation of 4-6 minutes where you share the progress of your research project so far. Please address the following: 

1. What is your topic? What led you to choose this? 

2. What is your narrowed research question? How did this evolve during the first few units of the course?

3. Where have you been doing your searching and what types of information sources have you been using?

4. Do you have any particular search tips that have worked for you? (ex. keyword synonyms, narrowing, subject terms, different databases, etc.)

5. What has been challenging about your research so far?

6. Have you found enough information to take a specific stance on your research question? (Remember that research questions are approachable from at least two sides--in other words, someone could take another view. If so, what is your stance? If not, what do you still need to do to answer your research question?

You by no means have to be done with your research by the time of this presentation, but you should have some promising sources of at least 3 different types (ex. books, journal articles, credible websites, etc.) 

Presentation Days: 3/25 and 3/27. Order will be determined by a signup sheet in class on Monday, 3/11. 

You will also be responding to your classmates' presentations and giving them feedback both in class and on your blog (full details to be distributed next week).

Total: 50 points

Analysis of Personal Information Use, due 3/13

This assignment is due at the beginning of class on Wednesday, March 13.   

Please submit as a Word document either in a physical copy or emailed as an attachment to awalsh@westga.edu

Now that you have been thinking about different types of information and how it is distributed and accessed, you should be formulating ideas about your own information consumption habits.  For this paper, you will reflect on the way you view information: both how you accessed it before taking this class and how those views might have changed.  Consider all that we’ve covered in LIBR-1101, including in-class discussions and activities, blog homework, and other assignments, and reflect on the following questions.

1.      What sources do you receive information from on a regular basis? (ex. search engines, news programs, even people!) Do you have any strategies in place to organize or filter the information you receive? (At least 250 words)

2.      How has your approach to seeking and accessing information changed? What changes in the way you use and access information will you make in the future? (At least 500 words)

Possible areas for reflection:

Have the types of information you seek changed?

Are there different types or sources of information you would seek for different purposes? If so, what are they?

Are you more skeptical about the information you come across on a daily basis?  Less skeptical?

Do you think about who produces the information you access?

These are just possible areas to explore. You do not have to answer all of these questions. If you have other ideas, that’s great.  If you want to talk to me about them before you begin your paper, just let me know!

Requirements for paper:

Carefully written, avoiding grammatical, spelling and punctuation errors

At least 750 words long (not including the questions) and double-spaced

Ideas are articulate and thoroughly explained using specific examples

Total: 75 points