- Students edited 10 sentences (worksheet attached)
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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY PRACTICE
- Students were put into groups of four and given the following four articles: pro_athletes_salaries.doc File Size: 70 kb File Type: docDownload File
Each student was in charge of reading one of the articles and writing an annotated bibliography for their article. MLA format was required. The annotation had to be 4-5 sentences long and meet the following requirements:
1) summarize what the article was about (1-2 sentences)
2) identify strong point(s) in the article (as it relates to your topic)
3) discuss the credibility of the source/author
4) discuss how and why you would or would not use this article in your paper
Resources for creating an annotated bibliography
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPHJCHwi3jQ bibme.org
Pages 19-25 of the senior project handbook (I also require a full URL) annotated_bibliographies.doc File Size: 44 kb File Type: docDownload File
Writing Without Persuasion
As we begin a new unit, we will be focusing on technical, informative or exploratory writing that requires objectivity and a desire to research more for the purpose of learning, than persuading.
FOR EXAMPLE-
Today we read four different articles about pro athletes' salaries
We looked on Wikipedia and discovered areas of weakness in their article on this topic (see the link below)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_sports
A contributor could add more information to the paragraph about salaries, or could add an entire section about a sport not listed on this page. However, as an on-line encyclopedia, Wikipedia requires submissions to be informative instead of persuasive. This is not to say that information may not be skewed, but the idea, in theory at least, is that it is objective. If students were to add to the article, they would not be determining or stating whether or not pro athletes are paid too much; they would simply be reporting the facts using credible sources.