For your TENTH post, you will be posting below a rough draft of your SECOND Reflective Annotated Bibliography entry.

In particular, you will post the SUMMARY and RHETORICAL ANALYSIS of your SECOND resource.

Same deal as last time!

You may select any of your two remaining resources for this second entry. Do not worry if you are unsure if what you produce is “correct.” This is JUST a rough draft! We will be going over them on Monday.

Refer to this handout for a very detailed overview of how to write your summary and rhetorical analysis: Structure of Unit 2 Reflective Annotated Bibliography Assignment.

Remember the following:

• In your summary you are just providing an overview of the resource, the kinds of information it includes, and what one might learn by consuming it. Your summary should capture the most important points the author makes relating to your research question. You most likely will not be able to talk about all of the information included in the resource.
• In your rhetorical analysis, you are evaluating how effective YOU think the resource is at achieving its purpose (to inform, to persuade, and/or to entertain) and reaching its
  intended audience. Please incorporate AT LEAST ONE QUOTATION in your rhetorical analysis. Refer to this handout from class: How to Effectively Incorporate a Quotation into Academic Writing

You can also refer to the sample student writing we went over in class, keeping in mind that this sample writing has both strengths and weaknesses:

• Sample RAB Entry
• SAMPLE RHETORICAL ANALYSIS  (Note: This example does not include the summary or key quotes section.)

The summary and rhetorical analysis should be at least 400 words. The summary should be about 1-2 paragraphs, and the rhetorical analysis should be about 2-3 paragraphs.

POST YOUR ENTRY BY 2 PM ON MONDAY, 10/30. 

For your ninth post, you will be posting below a rough draft of your first Reflective Annotated Bibliography entry.

In particular, you will post the SUMMARY and RHETORICAL ANALYSIS of your first resource.

You may select any of your three resources for this first entry. Do not worry if you are unsure if what you produce is “correct.” This is JUST a rough draft! We will be going over them on Wednesday.

Refer to this handout for a very detailed overview of how to write your summary and rhetorical analysis: Structure of Unit 2 Reflective Annotated Bibliography Assignment.

Remember the following:

• In your summary you are just providing an overview of the resource, the kinds of information it includes, and what one might learn by consuming it. Your summary should capture the most important points the author makes relating to your research question. You most likely will not be able to talk about all of the information included in the resource.
• In your rhetorical analysis, you are evaluating how effective YOU think the resource is at achieving its purpose (to inform, to persuade, and/or to entertain) and reaching its
  intended audience. Please incorporate AT LEAST ONE QUOTATION in your rhetorical analysis. Refer to this handout from class: How to Effectively Incorporate a Quotation into Academic Writing

You can also refer to the sample student writing we went over in class, keeping in mind that this sample writing has both strengths and weaknesses:

• Sample RAB Entry
• SAMPLE RHETORICAL ANALYSIS  (Note: This example does not include the summary or key quotes section.)

The summary and rhetorical analysis should be at least 400 words. The summary should be about 1-2 paragraphs, and the rhetorical analysis should be about 2-3 paragraphs.

POST YOUR ENTRY BY 2 PM ON WEDNESDAY, 10/25. WE WILL BE DOING A PEER REVIEW ACTIVITY WITH YOUR ENTRIES, SO IT IS VITAL YOU COMPLETE THIS ASSIGNMENT. IF YOU DO NOT COMPLETE IT, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ACTIVITY, AND YOU WILL LOSE THE POINTS.

Before we meet again on Monday, 10/23, you should locate all three of the sources you plan on using for your Unit 2 Reflective Annotated Bibliography assignment.

The post assignment over the weekend is fairly simple. Find your THREE sources, and in a comment below, list them out.

Include the TITLES of the sources, the sources’ AUTHOR or AUTHORS(or the organization that created it if it was not created by any one person), the PUBLISHER of the source, and the GENRE of the source.

For example, if one of your sources was the article from the Guardian “Schools are Killing Curiosity,” you would include the following:

• “Schools are Killing Curiosity” by Wendy Berliner. Published by the Guardian. Online Newspaper Article.

Alternatively, if one of your sources was the YouTube video about black holes, you would include the following:

• “Black Holes Explained — From Birth to Death” by Kurzgesagt (an organization). Published on YouTube. Online Video.

Please remember that you must have THREE sources in THREE different genres.

Keep in mind that you will be required to post a rough draft of your first source entry on Wednesday, 10/25. SO GET STARTED NOW!

FINALLY, if you have not completed your seventh post assignment and commented on the seventh posts of two of your peers, do so ASAP.