Annotated Bibliography

Get ready:
Copy and paste your annotation onto your page in the Google doc.
tinyurl.com/ya7k9zut

POLL
What has been your biggest challenge in writing your annotations?

GOAL
Identify and mitigate pitfalls in writing annotations.

Tonight

• Review the recommended process
• Examine an example
• Common pitfalls
• Peer review
• Q&A

NOT Tonight

• Mechanics
• Formatting
• Writing style
• APA style

Disclaimer
This session has been prepared using the assignment guidelines, rubric and resource provided to us by the EdD program. If your instructor has additional or different guidelines, always defer to the rules of the person grading you.

Annotated Bib Process

• Find sources
• Read sources
• Identify most relevant
• Cite sources
• Write annotations
• Put it together

Example

Example

• Read through the example (pg 1-2)
• Review the coding (pg 3-4
• What are the strengths of this annotation

Common Pitfalls

Lack of focus

Checklist-like annotation

Failure to integrate

In order to support educational administrators in higher education, particularly leaders of academic departments who want to cultivate a culture of instructional congruence, the Director of the teaching and learning center at Brown University examined academic departments in a school with the Carnegie classification of Doctoral/Research University - Extensive, to determine what type of organizational and instructional practices might foster either congruent or incongruent instructional culture.

Poor writing

Write, read, revise!

Cut the fluff!
Be concise, avoid passive voice.

Lack of context

The 4 C's

• Context
• Criticism
• Clarity
• Connection to POP.

Peer Review

Share your Annotation

• Open Google doc
• Find your page
• Paste one of your annotations under your name
• tinyurl.com/ydatxcyq

Peer Match Up

Step 1: Focus on Context

• Read through the annotation
• Write a one-sentence comment on your understanding of the importance of this source.
• Not sure? Comment on what's confusing you or lacking context.

Step 2: Check for Completeness

• Annotate the annotation
• Use the coding system in step 2

Annotation Coding

• Summary - yellow highlight
• Intended audience - underline
• author notes - orange highlight
• evaluation - green highlight
• methods - bold
• relation to other works - blue text
• relation to POP - red tex

Step 3: Review the Whole

• Is the annotation complete?
• Does it include the four C's? (Context, criticism, clarity, connection to POP?
• Any other comments/suggestions?

Review your Feedback

Annotation success

• Write, read, revise
• Code your annotation
• Remember the 4 Cs

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