1. Continuing
Annotated Bibs
Tuesday, 5/29

2. Proposals?
 Genre conventions?
 http://vimeo.com/42828824
 How does this break the genre conventions?

3. Annotated Bib: Why should I
write one?
 To learn about your topic
 Learn “what’s been said”
 Develop your own point of view
 To see what the issues are, what people are
arguing about

4. Journal
 Look at all of the sources you have so far. If you had to
group them into categories, what categories would you
choose? Which sources would you put together?
 Example: patient/nurse communication education: Smith,
Jones
patient/nurse communication in major hospitals:
Swales, McDaniels

5. Annotated Bib: Format
 Citation (MLA/APA)
 Precis
 How does this source relate to the others? Include at least one
quote in this section.
 Citation
 Precis
 How does this source relate to the others?
 Repeat for 10 articles

6. Example, part 1
Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life.
New York: Anchor Books, 1995. Print.
Anne Lamott, a professional writer, in her 1995 work, Bird by
Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, asserts that students
argue mostly with their own inner critic when writing a paper. She
supports this assertion through a variety of anecdotes, in which
she uses humor to display students’ insecurities with their own
writing abilities. Her purpose was to show that students should
be more confident when writing, because they are often their
own tough critics. Her intended audience includes writing
students and teachers, and she targets this audience by using
anecdotes from both the student and the teacher perspectives on
writing.

7. Example, part 2
Lamott’s book is relevant to my topic because she focuses on
the students’ writing processes as determinants of their
confidence with writing. Stating, “Students’ lack of confidence
with writing often limits their abilities,” meaning that students
limit their writing potential when they doubt
themselves, Lamott argues that writing teachers should work
to increase their students’ confidence with writing (89). This
article relates to the claims made by Swales, but he references
the discourse communities in which students write, while
Lammott speaks more directly about individual students and
their writing processes. This article can also be related to Grant-
Davie, since he discusses rhetorical situations and their
influence on how students might target audiences through their
writing.

8. Other reminders
 List in alphabetical order, just like you would in a list of Works
cited
 Double-space the entries
 Do not number them
 Heading should be in MLA/APA format
 Shoot for at least 10 citations
 Peer draft this Thursday, May 31st. Final Monday, June 4th
 Don’t worry about intro until Thursday

9. Some details…
 Article titles in quotes
 Book titles and journal titles in italics
 Punctuation goes inside quotation marks:
 Devitt states, “Genres are reactions to life,” which means…
 Devitt states, “Genres are reactions to life” (234).

10. Preliminary genre analysis
 Read over my comments. All of them.
 If you’d like to revise, send me an email to make an
appointment during office hours. Come to appointment so
that we can talk about your revision.
 All appointments must be made by Thursday, May 31st

11. Wednesday, 5/30
 Work on your annotated bib
 Come up and discuss your genre analysis revision, if you’d
like
 Ask questions, and be ready for peer-review tomorrow.
Bring a hard copy or a saved draft on your computer.