English 1302: Week Four

1. English 1302: Week Four Annotated Bibliography

2. Class Overview • Reminders • BA3: Annotated Bibliography • Recording Bibliographic Information • Annotating Entries and Methods of Evaluation • Literature Review Theses • Homework

3. Reminders • The literature review 1.1 is due Saturday, Feb. 22 before midnight. • Check your TTU e-mail address daily. • Keep up with Raider Writer assignments • Take advantage of office hours and UWC appointments

4. Brief Assignment 3: Annotated Bib. • To complete this assignment, prepare an annotated bibliography. Each entry in an annotated bibliography consists of two elements: an initial citation in MLA format and a 200-250 word summary and evaluation of each source. You will evaluate the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the source as well as the key points of each source’s content. Your bibliography should contain a minimum of six annotated entries. Your sources should be scholarly or other reputable or credible articles located through the TTU library databases.

5. BA3: Additional Directions • Make sure to write out a working thesis statement at the top. This needs to be at least one grammatically complete sentence. Follow the “effective” models we’ve discussed in this class and in previous weeks. Review the sample 1.2s in the back of your FYW textbook for more guidance. • Please list your entries alphabetically by the last name of the first author (for each article). • Make sure to use proper MLA format for each entry.

6. Annotated Bibliography • What is the function of an annotated bibliography? • How does the annotated bib. relate to the literature review? • How does one format an annotated bib.? • How does one evaluate sources for relevance, accuracy, and quality?

7. Recording Bib. Information: The Entry • A bibliographic entry should look like the following: a full MLA citation followed by a one or two paragraph written evaluation of the source. • Entries should include: • A citation • A summary of the article’s argument and scope • Evaluation of the source’s relevance, quality, and accuracy.

8. Methods of Evaluation From FYW and the BSM E-Handbook: • Relevance: • What ideas does this text offer? How does the article relate to your research question? What is the scope of the research? • Quality: • What are the author’s credentials and qualifications regarding the subject? • What are the credentials and qualifications of experts who are cited? • What are the author’s affiliations, if any, that could affect their credibility? • Accuracy: • How accurate and complete is the information and research of the source? • How thorough is the research, and how large is scope of the argument with respect to their topic?

9. Example Entry Graham, Desmond. The Truth of War: Owen, Blunden, Rosenberg. Manchester: Carcanet Press Ltd., 1984. Print.     Working from Fussell’s ideas about the relation between wartime experience and the inexpressible aspects of poetic language, Graham analyzes in a series of close readings the ways in which Owen, Blunden, and Rosenberg engage in a “poetic distancing” as a means to complicate “the single truth of war.” Graham’s reading of Owen is concerned with conceptual “experience” as expressed through poetic language and examines the modernist need to “resist” a totalizing experience or knowledge of the self. A book chapter examines the paradox of Owen’s texts and how they work to preserve the power of the inexpressible in memory and loss by denying full entry into that knowledge. Although Graham’s focus is not exclusively on Owen’s work, his analysis of “poetic resistance” is relevant to my research because it connects poetic form with issues of memory. His argument is also in direct conversation with other prominent WWI scholars like Fussell and Johnston on formal issues. Graham’s research thoroughly explores the arguments of other critics, although it relies heavily on close readings for textual support. Graham is a well-established WWI scholar and Professor of English (Emeritus) at Newcastle University; he is also known as a leading anthologist of poetry. While the book is somewhat old, Graham’s work is well-cited by other prominent WWI specialists at Oxford and other universities. I will synthesize Graham’s reading with others who argue that Owen’s poetry employs modernist, “resistant” techniques, as Graham’s work is an early example of such an argument which has gained popularity since the early WWI studies of poetry.

10. Practice • Take a look at your Library Assignment and determine an order (1-8) for your strongest (1), most relevant source to your least relevant source (8). • What are the differences between (1) and (8)? How do their arguments differ? How do they connect? • Next, try to group the articles according a pattern (agreement, disagreement) based on a potential thesis statement.

11. Literature Review Theses • A thesis for a literature review should focus on the specific trend in the literature and should feature the authors in some way. • Examples: • “Recent research has indicated that the current methods of fish hatchery stocking may have negative impacts on wild salmonid populations and should be altered or in some cases discontinued in order to preserve our native anadromoussalmonid stock.” • “While past research has speculated that word grouping improves children’s reading, current research indicates that line spacing, word size, and typeface are more noticeably effective factors in improving children’s reading.” • In the above examples, note the focus of language: “While past research has speculated…, current research indicates…” • “Research” or “authors” should be involved in some way with your sentence subject. • A strong literature review thesis, like example two, might also include the potential sub-points (body paragraph topics) in a concise, succinct manner.

12. Theses: Effective vs. Ineffective Evaluate the following theses as either “effective” or “ineffective” and note why: • Social media has a large effect on American businesses. • Current research indicates that scholars believe economics plays the more viable role in the function of international peace keeping. • Because it has been proven through research, all authors believe that hydrogen fuel cells can resolve the energy crisis worldwide. • The pattern suggests that body image and advertisement are strongly linked. • While most researchers suggest that the NSA plays a viable role in military-led peace keeping, the field is divided over the perception that such programs violate human privacy rights in the name “peace.” • Although many poetry scholars agree that Dickinson’s use of metaphor is prototypical of modernism, they largely disagree on finer issues of metaphor such as image, structural application, and conceptual relationships.

13. Homework • Complete BA3 as directed (see additional instructions in these notes) before midnight, Saturday, Feb. 15 • Please type (12 pt. Times New Roman) a completed draft of your introductory and first body paragraphs for your literature review. Your introduction should contain a working thesis at the end (please see our notes on intros from last week). Bring a printed copy of this assignment to class (and retain one for yourself). • Make sure to complete your formal topic proposal by e-mail. Please follow the directions listed in the Week Two PowerPoint.