compile an annotated bibliography including 5- 8 sources relevant to your research topic
Annotated Bibliography Assignment/Research Overview
For this assignment you will compile an annotated bibliography including 5- 8 sources relevant to your research topic. All must be clearly “Scholarly” or, if you are working with a professional research report, must be documents relevant to your work and that you can assess as having depth, professional relevance, and credibility.
Do NOT include books, or popular sources that summarize of simplify more complex original research material.
An annotated bibliography includes not only a proper citation but an evaluation of the source and its usefulness to your work. For a clear definition, description of the format, and samples, go to the following URL: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01
This should take you to the Purdue OWL writing lab page on Annotated Bibliographies with associated links. If it does NOT, or you have any technical difficulties let me know right away. This is your guide to the assignment!! I’ll post a .pdf to Blackboard as well, just in case.
Remember develop a research proposal, needless to say you need to do some research. You will need to establish your own knowledge of the current conversation on the issue you are researching. To accomplish that, the majority of your sources must be very recent. How recent can vary by field – disciplines that change rapidly (like Computer Science) may only value scholarship published in the last year or so, while others (like Asian Studies) may require both current research and an overview of older scholarship. A good place to begin is to identify a text/article that you think is excellent and highly relevant to your topic and review their references or works cited page to see what type of sources are most commonly used and the date range. You may have already done this in your source analysis.
A note on length – Some of the articles you are looking at may use vocabulary or jargon that is beyond where you are; in other words you may not be part of the discourse community. Don’t panic. Use your skills as a reader to determine the focus, purpose, and conclusions of the text. You will find that the rigid formats of many scholarly articles encourage this kind of reading. Don’t underestimate your ability to understand. And if it’s entirely beyond you, don’t be afraid to let it go.
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A note on citation formats –
If you are not sure what to use, look closely at the format used in the articles you are evaluating, reading. If still not sure, ask others in your field in our class and you can also ask me.
Thanks – Let me know if you have questions.
ENG 3301
Summer 1 2013
Researched Document Analysis
For this assignment you will perform a close analysis of a scholarly source (academic audience) or researched report (professional audience). I encourage you to choose a document type that is both characteristic of researched communication in your field, and one that you would be interested in writing a proposal to produce. (In an ideal world you would produce the actual document but in our time frame it’s a proposal!). So this might be a scholarly article, or it might be a researched market analysis, or an annual report for instance. If you are not sure of your options, feel free to ask and discuss with me.
To complete this project, please do the following:
Give a proper citation for the text you are examining.
Describe how you found the text.
If scholarly, include the database you used for your search,the keywords you
worked with, and how you determined this text would be relevant to your project.
How do you know it is “scholarly”?
If professional, if you came to this site through a database search, do as noted above. If you came to this document in some other way, describe that here.
Then compose an analysis of the text. While this analysis will not be as long as the Discourse Community Analysis, it uses the same approach in many ways. Look at the text you are reading as a model of a particular form of communication. It reveals a great deal about what is valued in this discipline, the ways research is deployed in your field, and also the often fairly rigid forms in which scholarly and professional communication takes place within the field. You do not need to be able to understand every element of the text to complete this exercise.
Your analysis should be written in paragraph form.
Do not use the following as a “list” but work to include these elements in your analysis.
A description of the article’s or reports central purpose and argument.
A consideration of what kind of evidence is used to support that argument. Some fields value numerical data, others value experimental results, others acts of interpretation, and still others stories of lived experience. What matters here? What kind of evidence is used to support that argument? What does this tell you about what kinds of knowledge are valued in the field? Include examples of these types of evidence.
A consideration of design and format. How is a reader meant to navigate the text, and what kinds of information are highlighted? Are there visual components? If so, what is their purpose? Would a reader read straight through or use specific sections? Would different users focus on different components?
A review of the system of citation and the reference/works cited page. What citation system is being used? Is the research being referenced current or is there a broad date range? Do any particular researchers/experts turn up repeatedly? What does the reference page tell you about the community’s values and practices? If it is an unconventional system describe it as clearly as possible.
Brief Statement of research project idea:
Once you have completed the analysis, please post it. Then, as a reply to your own post, write a brief (just a few sentences) description of the proposal you plan to write for the next part of the project. What type of document will you propose (a Journal article? A conference paper proposal? A professional research report of one kind or another? ) What do you want to do?
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According to the article “Recipe for low-Cost, Biomass- Derived Catalyst for Hydrogen Production,” researchers describe how platinum will be replaced by a catalyst in the production of hydrogen. The catalyst is said to be effective, efficiency and relatively cheap compared to platinum. The research was carried out by researchers in the US Energy Department…………….
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