WRIT1002: WRITING AND RHETORIC -

ARGUMENTATION Summer Main 2018

Annotated Bibliography – 20%

Word count: 1000 words (+/- 10%)

Weighting: 20%
Due date: 11:59pm, 1 February 2018

To be saved on Word (.doc or docx), must include your name and SID, and
must be submitted via the TURNITIN dropbox on Canvas.

Purpose: This task will help you to start your research and begin the process
of writing. It is the first step in your writing process, a process that will end
when you submit your essay.

This assessment task also helps to assess the learning outcomes for this unit of
study and also helps you to develop graduate qualities listed in the University’s
“Learning and teaching Policy, 2015”
(http://sydney.edu.au/policies/showdoc.aspx?recnum=PDOC2015/401&RendNu
m=0). It assesses your ability to develop depth of disciplinary expertise, critical
thinking, problem solving, communication, and information and digital literacy.

An annotated bibliography is a tool to help you to record and organize your

research so that you can quickly access the information contained in each
source that has passed your screening process.

This task will help you to achieve item 3 of the unit’s intended learning
outcomes. It requires you to research, find 4 sources that you find relevant
to your topic and/or question if you have already devised one and that you
have selected after reading each critically and thinking critically about their
arguments. Though you may find other sources that you think may be useful,
please only include the four most suitable ones here.

1. You will begin your Annotated bibliography with a heading, then a brief
explanation of your research strategy. See the example
(http://research.dom.edu/ld.php?content_id=2316849 and attached at
the end of this instruction sheet with additional captions) shown in the
assessment folder, which explains the strategy used.

2. You should then include a full bibliographical reference (that is

indented and follows a citation style approved by your tutor).

3. After each citation, you will write an annotation that discusses the
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 credibility and authority of the sources, what these 4 sources have
already written about your chosen topic, and the extent to which they
will help with your own essay. Each annotation should be approximately
250 words long (note that the paragraph in the example is far too long).
The annotation should do these four things:

3.1 state or summarise what the author/s’ thesis or main point is

3.2 evaluate the credibility of the author/s (ie her, his or their
qualifications/accreditation) and the publishers of the text
3.3 evaluate the author/s’ authority to speak on the subject (expertise,
specialisation)
3.4 discuss how the author/s’ contributions to your topic (how and
where in your essay you might be able to use the source.

If after exploring item 3.2 and 3.3 above, you decide that one of the sources
is not going to be an appropriate inclusion in your work, you can still include
that source in your annotated bibliography but explain clearly why the source
will be inappropriate for your essay. You will have arrived at that conclusion
by reading critically and thinking critically about that source and we will value
that.

Your bibliography should privilege academic texts. It should include at least

one peer-reviewed scholarly books (or book chapters), and at least three
scholarly journal articles. Citations should follow the proper method,
according to the discipline the essay represents. Please use one of the
following citation methods: APA, MLA or Chicago (unless your tutor
approves another style) and make it clear which one you have chosen.

Your marker will provide feedback for this Annotated Bibliography task,
which you should consider and reflect before completing your next
assessment, the outline/literature review task.

Structurally, the Annotated bibliography will be written as a list of in running

paragraphs and will proceed along the following pattern:

Research Strategy explanation

1. Full bibliographic reference for source 1

Annotation
2. Full bibliographic reference for source 2
Annotation
3. Full bibliographic reference for source 3
Annotation
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4. Full bibliographic reference for source 4
Annotation

Each annotation MUST be in your OWN WORDS. DO NOT plagiarise your

entries. Each entry should include the four important elements listed above and
the combined Research strategy explanation and 4 annotations must amount to
approximately 1000 words. The title/topic/question and bibliographic references
are not included in the word count.

Assessment Criteria: You will be assessed on:

• Following formatting requirements

• Inclusion of accurate bibliographic entries following an approved
referencing convention
• Quality of annotations showing care taken in reading, understanding, and
thinking critically about the quality and relevance of source content, and
distilling the author/s theses
• The quality, credibility and authority of each source used, and the critical
judgment shown in choosing them.

Other issues that may impact on your marks:

Although the purpose of this task is to help you to develop sound and critical
research, record keeping and organizational practices, you should always take care
to ensure your work is error free grammatically and logically, that you follow
academic honesty rules, and follow instructions. We are not likely to penalize you
for grammatical or spelling mistakes if you make only a few but too many will
impact on readability, and on your own credibility and may lose you marks. More
serious offences (eg those amounting to negligent or dishonest plagiarism) will
have to be dealt with at the Faculty level and the designated officer will impose a
penalty that he deems appropriate. This can include failure from the assessment, or
the unit of study.

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 Annotated Bibliography Rubric

HD DI CR PA FA
Source quantity, All four sources are Required number of Required number of Required number of Fewer than required
Credibility and scholarly and screened by sources; all scholarly sources; all scholarly sources; over half number of sources or an
Authority peer review; the authors and screened by peer and screened by scholarly sources (or insufficient number are
credible; and have review; the authors are peer review; all primary sources, scholarly sources or an
expertise in the area in credible and most included in credible where available and unacceptable proportion
which they are writing. have expertise in the publications and appropriate). are not credible and/or
required or a similar most authors are do not have expertise in
field. academics and have the relevant area, or are
expertise in the irrelevant and no
required or similar justification for their
field. inclusion is given.
Annotation Annotation shows careful Annotation shows Annotation shows Annotation shows Annotation shows
Quality reading and clear careful reading and reading and reading and superficial or no reading
understanding of source understanding of understanding of understanding of and understanding of
content, quality, and source content, source content, source content, source content, quality,
relevance, and an quality, and relevance, quality, and quality, and and relevance, with
impressive degree of and an appropriate relevance, with some relevance, with little weaknesses or
critical thinking degree of critical evidence of critical evidence of critical omissions in most
thinking. thinking, and a few thinking and entries.
weaknesses or weaknesses or
omissions in no more omissions more two
than one entry. entries.
Bibliographic All citations are correctly All citations are cited Citations follow a Citations suggest an Citations follow no
references cited following a standard following a standard standard attempt to follow a discernible bibliographic
bibliographic format. bibliographic format bibliographic format discernible format, are incomplete
with no more than two with two or more bibliographic format or contain an
minor errors and no citation errors and but are inconsistent unacceptable frequency
omissions. minor omissions. and contain citation of errors, or omissions.
errors or omissions.
Formatting Paper formatted Paper formatted Paper formatted with Paper has numerous Paper has numerous
according to assignment according to some errors; one of errors; format errors; format guidelines
guidelines with none of assignment guidelines the required guidelines not not followed; more than
the required elements with none of the elements missing. followed; and one or two of the required
missing. required elements two of the required elements missing.
missing and with very elements missing.
few errors.