ENG302
: The Class
: The Process
: Electronic Platform
: Annot. Biblio.
Annotated Bibliographies
In this assignment you will write an annotated bibliography for a website which highlights some aspect of correctness for the technical writer. The website must address grammar, mechanics, writing process, publication, or some other subject that the technical writer may have a need for resources.
I will give detailed information below which will help you format the bibliographical portion of this project, and examples to illustrate the annotation of the website.
When you complete this project, I would like you to do two things:
1. Post your annotated bibliography in the folder in the VCC labeled 'Annotated Bibliography', and
2. Send an E-Mail to me, letting me know that your portion of the assignment is there and that I can give you credit for this.
What I would like you to have from this project is a working resource that you will be able to access as you use technical writing in your every-day technical writing.
For this project, please browse through the two URLS listed in the Web Assignment for this topic. The second URL, in particular, will link you to innumerable sites that can be used as a reference for technical writers. Find one site that you think a technical writer could use and make your annotated bibliography summarize this site.
This project will be worth 50 points, and graded on the basis of the bibliographical structure provided and on the 4 Cs.
Here is the information that you will need to include in the bibliographical portion of your annotated bibliography.
Bibliographies: Using and Citing Technical Sources
ELECTRONIC SOURCES
The general form for citing electronic sources is:
Author:
Last name first, followed by a comma and initials for all authors. Each author is
followed by a comma, with an ampersand (&) before the last author’s name. List of authors is
followed by a period.
Year of Publication:
In parenthesis, followed by a period. If there is no date, include the date of the search.
Title of Article or Chapter:
Capitalize only the first word of the title. Do not underline or use
quotation marks around the title. Follow by a period.
Title of Full Work
Underlined, with only the first word and any proper names capitalized,
followed by a period.
Type of Medium:
Insert, in brackets, the method of publication (e.g.,[On-line], [CD-ROM]).
"Available":
Followed immediately after the type of medium, 'Available' replaces 'Place of
Publication' and 'Publisher.'
Path: This is the specific method the reader can use to find the material
(e.g., http: / /www.aclu-il.org/testing.html).
The following examples illustrate some of the most frequently used forms for electronic sources:
On-Line Sources:
Long, J. W., & Ryback, J. J. (1995). The essential guide to prescription drugs [On-line] Available: Council for Progress in Science and Medicine. (1996, 7 Feb.). 'A lie that tortures billions of animals.' Pushing science into the future [On-line]. Available:
CD-ROM Sources: (Note that 'Available' is omitted.)
Vance, G. (1995). Guidelines for the laboratory use of chemical carcinogens [CD-ROM]. Midwest Data Bank. Chicago, IL: Portnoy [Producer and Distributor].
E-Mail:
DeRusseau, R. (1996, June). 'T-12 hose couplings.' E-mail to the author.
Examples of Annotated Bibliographies
Here are some examples of annotated bibliographies. Although they have been written to summarize books, the synopses following the bibliographic information will serve as examples for the second part of your annotated bibliographies.
Lunsford, Andrea A., Helene Moglen, and James Slevin, eds. The Right to Literacy. New York: MLA, 1990.
Twenty-nine compact essays address the public and professional issue of literacy, the literacy problems of particular social groups, and political and pedagogical concerns. Essays include Theodore Sizer, 'Public Literacy: Puzzlements of a High School Watcher'; Jacqueline Jones Royster, 'Perspectives on the Intellectual Tradition of Black Women Writers'; James Moffett, 'Censorship and Spiritual Education'; Deborah Brandt, 'Literacy and Knowledge'; Glynda Hull and Mike Rose, 'Toward a Social-Cognitive Understanding of Problematic Reading and Writing'; and Shirley Brice Heath, 'The Fourth Vision: Literate Language at Work.'
Macedo, Donaldo. Literacies of Power: What Americans Are not Allowed to Know. Boulder:
Westview Press, 1994.
Drills in discrete skills give people sufficient literacy to decode but not to demystify government propaganda. Adding a cultural-literacy component to education perpetuates cultural genocide on those who do not belong to the majority culture, if the model favors Western culture, as does E. D. Hirsch's. Following Paulo Freire, we should encourage multilingual, multicultural literacy education in order to effect change toward social justice. Macedo testifies to the value of such education from personal experience.
Moss, Beverly J. Literacy across Communities. Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton, 1994.
Five of the six essays in this collection study nonacademic literacy practices in mainstream communities: Marcia Farr, 'En Los Dos Idiomas: Literacy Practices Among Chicano Mexicanos'; Gail Weinstein-Shr, 'From Mountaintops to City Streets: Literacy in Philadelphia's Hmong Community'; Daniel McLaughlin, 'Toward a Dialogical Understanding of Literacy: The Case of Navajo Prinf'; Jabari Mahiri, 'Reading Rites and Sports: Motivation for Adaptive Literacy of Young African-American Males'; and Beverly Moss, 'Creating a Community: Literacy Events in African-American Churches.' In the final essay, 'World Travelling: Enlarging Our Understanding of Non-mainstream Literacies,' Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater comments on the preceding studies and recommends, following them, that teachers should function as coaches, not authority figures; that classrooms should be collaborative learning communities; and that school-home communication should become bi-directional.
You should now:
Go on to check the links in the Web Activity
or
Go back to Technical Communication in an Electronic Platform
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