Blog Post 9 - Read/Revise/Reflect

Read/Reply/Reflect to Blog Post 9: "Annotated Bibliography Draft 1”

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Use the Blog Directory for your course section to find two classmates without comments or replies on their “Annotated Bibliography Draft 1” post. NOTE: If you can, try to find one peer blog post that’s written using the same citation style as your own and one peer blog post that’s written using a totally different citation style.

REPLY: If the student’s Annotated Bibliography is in MLA style, then refer to the example on Student’s Guide pages 111-3. For all other citation styles, then click on the working link to the example of an annotated bibliography in that discipline’s citation style at the bottom of the author’s post. Leave a concise but detailed comment on each student’s blog post in which you compare and contrast the official example they used and the Annotated Bibliography they authored. Are they formatted exactly the same? Do they look as close to identical as possible, in terms of layout and formatting? Are the bibliographic citations done correctly? Are the annotations giving all the information asked for in  “Tips & Strategies Box” on Student’s Guide page 112? What formatting problems or missing information do you notice here?

REFLECT: Go back to your own “Annotated Bibliography Draft 1” post. Go into editing mode and at the bottom of the post, leave a reflection about what you learned by examining your classmates' work. Be specific about what reading these other posts made you realize or reflect upon in your own work. Were you able to locate another peer who was writing in the same citation style as yourself? If so, what did that show you about your own work? If not, what are your thoughts and feelings about that? Were you able to examine the work of peers writing in a totally different citation style? If so, what did that make you realize about what citation styles do and why they might matter (or not seem to matter)? How does the practice of writers using particular citation styles for specific disciplines strike you?

Be sure to also list who you replied to and provide working hyperlinks to each individual’s “Annotated Bibliography Draft 1” post (NOTE: if these links aren’t included or don’t work or if the page it directs us to is blocked from public view, I will not be able to assign you full credit for this exercise).