Writing Assignment 2
Your response to this discussion is due by this week Friday at midnight Eastern Standard Time (EST).
You are also asked to comment on at least one other student’s thread in the class on his or her response.
Your comment to your classmate is due by this week Sunday at midnight Eastern Standard Time (EST).
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Hi students!
This discussion topic is designed to help you become familiar with how to annotate articles. In this discussion, you’ll read an academic article on teaching grammar and then write an annotation of that article.
Here’s how to get started:
Step 1: Watch the video, “How to Write an Annotated Bibliography-7th edition.” (It’s in this week’s Content.)
Step 2: Access and then read the article, “Teaching Grammar and Editing in Public Administration: Lessons Learned from Early Offerings of an Undergraduate Administrative Writing Course,” by Claire Connolly Knox.
This article is in the e-reserves section of your class. You can access the article by taking the following steps:
- click Content
- select Class Resources
- select eReserves
- select the icon for eReserves in the middle of your page.
- in the list of items that appears, locate the article and download it
Step 3: Create an annotation of this article as if you were considering it for a source in a paper. Here’s how:
- List the article in APA format, as the video describes. (Note: the publication date for this article is not listed. A quick Google Search of the article title will show you that the year of publication is 2013. Include this in your citation.)
- Write a 100-to-150-word summary/critique of the article in which you not only summarize the article but also note any strengths or weaknesses you find in it. In addition, mention whether it will be a possible article for an essay on the topic of teaching grammar in writing courses. (Note: you won’t be writing about this topic for your own writing assignments.)
Your annotation thus should include the following:
- Focus of the study (~ 1-2 sentences
- Conclusion(s) of the study (~ 1-2 sentences)
- Analysis of the study (e.g., any strengths or weaknesses? Any thing that was particularly remarkable/helpful?) (~ 1-2 sentences)
- Its relevance to research on teaching grammar in writing courses (~ 1-2 sentences)
Please refer to the “Sample Annotated Bibliography-7th edition” in this week’s Content for an example.
Step 4: Post your response.
Step 5: Comment on at least one of your classmates’ posts.
Please note: You’re not writing about teaching grammar for your own writing assignments. However, this exercise is designed to help you become familiar with listing a source in APA format and with writing a critical annotation for it.
Also please note that you will not be able to see other students’ responses to this discussion topic until you post your response.
Resources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5GxyFlkZL8
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Assignment: Annotated Bibliography
Firstname Lastname
Central Penn College
ENG 102: College Composition II
Professor N. Instructor
January 29, 2020
Assignment: Annotated Bibliography
American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.).
https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000
Follow your citation [on a new line] with your information about the source. Tab to move the first line over so the annotation falls in line with the hanging indent. This could be a summary or a critical analysis for why this would be useful in addressing the topic of your paper. The entire page is double-spaced with no extra space after the paragraph. Your references will be in APA format with the hanging indent and in alphabetical order.
Author’s last name, First name initial. Middle initial. (Year of publication). Title of the book in italics. Publishing company. DOI or URL if available
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Author’s last name, First name initial. Middle initial. (Year of publication). Title of the article. Title of the Journal in Italics, volume number (Issue number), pages used. DOI number
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