ENGL 3332 Fall 2018 | Dr. Dominy 1 Annotated Bibliography with Review Essay 200 Points (20% of Final Grade) Minimum Length: Thorough annotations on a minimum of five scholarly sources, plus a review essay of at least three pages in length. Total length will be six to eight pages. Due Sunday, 25 November 2018 at 11:59 pm in D2L/Brightspace Dropbox Description of the Assignment An additional core activity of literary scholars is being conversant in the extant criticism in the field of one’s study, which means knowing how other literary scholars interpret the same texts and authors that you have read. This assignment is designed to help you become more conversant in the criticism of one of the short story authors whom we have read during this term. To complete it, you will compile an annotated bibliography of at least five items of scholarly literary criticism and then write a review essay to identify connections and more thoroughly describe the conversation on the author. As a refresher, an annotated bibliography is a list of sources on a subject in which each item is accompanied with an annotation, which is a summary of the source’s thesis, central claims, and most significant support or evidence. Many professional scholars keep these as part of their notes (I try to keep a running, informal annotated bibliography of sources I encounter in my research). While this annotated bibliography should be treated as a formal academic assignment, it can serve as a model for what you should always do informally in your research. A review essay looks at a group of recent publications in a specific field of literary scholarship in an effort to show how recent criticism is in conversation and describe the direction that the field is headed. They are typically published in the book review section of scholarly journals. Having experience writing both an annotated bibliography and a review essay is important because it will not only help you to practice some of the skills you will need to have and deploy independently in other literature courses, like Senior Seminar, but in graduate school should you choose to go that route. These skills transfer to other research applications, too. Guidelines for the Annotated Bibliography portion:  You must focus on one author who is on our syllabus this term.  You must annotate at least five sources from the last five years. Consult me if you have an issue.  Your research should focus on resources available through the library. The appropriate resources available through the library are o The library catalog (for books and eBooks) o The MLA International Bibliography (for journal articles, books, eBooks, book articles, and dissertations) o Academic Search Complete (this is more general interest, but has more full-text) o JSTOR (journal articles) o The Literary Resource Center (for bibliographies and tertiary sources to help you get star.

1. ENGL 3332 Fall 2018 | Dr. Dominy 1
Annotated Bibliography with Review Essay
200 Points (20% of Final Grade)
Minimum Length: Thorough annotations on a minimum of five
scholarly sources, plus a review
essay of at least three pages in length. Total length will be six
to eight pages.
Due Sunday, 25 November 2018 at 11:59 pm in
D2L/Brightspace Dropbox
Description of the Assignment
An additional core activity of literary scholars is being
conversant in the extant criticism in the
field of one’s study, which means knowing how other literary
scholars interpret the same texts
and authors that you have read. This assignment is designed to
help you become more conversant
in the criticism of one of the short story authors whom we have
read during this term. To
complete it, you will compile an annotated bibliography of at

2. least five items of scholarly literary
criticism and then write a review essay to identify connections
and more thoroughly describe the
conversation on the author.
As a refresher, an annotated bibliography is a list of sources on
a subject in which each item is
accompanied with an annotation, which is a summary of the
source’s thesis, central claims, and
most significant support or evidence. Many professional
scholars keep these as part of their notes
(I try to keep a running, informal annotated bibliography of
sources I encounter in my research).
While this annotated bibliography should be treated as a formal
academic assignment, it can
serve as a model for what you should always do informally in
your research.
A review essay looks at a group of recent publications in a
specific field of literary scholarship in
an effort to show how recent criticism is in conversation and
describe the direction that the field
is headed. They are typically published in the book review
section of scholarly journals.

3. Having experience writing both an annotated bibliography and a
review essay is important
because it will not only help you to practice some of the skills
you will need to have and deploy
independently in other literature courses, like Senior Seminar,
but in graduate school should you
choose to go that route. These skills transfer to other research
applications, too.
Guidelines for the Annotated Bibliography portion:
term.
years. Consult me if you have
an issue.
hould focus on resources available through
the library. The appropriate
resources available through the library are
o The library catalog (for books and eBooks)
o The MLA International Bibliography (for journal articles,
books, eBooks, book
articles, and dissertations)
o Academic Search Complete (this is more general interest, but
has more full-text)
o JSTOR (journal articles)

4. o The Literary Resource Center (for bibliographies and tertiary
sources to help you
get started)
o GALILEO Discover Tool to help you find specific items you
have bibliographic
information for or as a last resort
ENGL 3332 Fall 2018 | Dr. Dominy 2
find as much as possible,
limit yourself to looking for and reading scholarly book
chapters and scholarly (peer
reviewed) journal articles. This is because you likely will not
find a book that addresses a
single short story author, nor would you have time to read it. If
you do encounter a book
you want to include, discuss it with me.
reference and tertiary material are
not appropriate sources for your annotated bibliography.
cut it. Nor will relying
on the abstract.
-

5. developed, coherent
paragraphs. Your annotations should
o Summarize the thesis (central argument) of the source
o Summarize the significant evidence offered in the source
o Explain how it relates to discussions we had in class related to
your chosen
author, the story we read, or other topics
o Note any theoretical approach, as far as you think you can
understand it
o Demonstrate you understood what you read
alphabetically by author’s last
name. Provide the MLA works cited entry for the source, and
then on the following line
start your annotation, first line indented as a paragraph. The
document should be
uniformly double-spaced, not adding additional lines between
annotations and the
subsequent entries.
hereafter in this assignment
prompt.
Guidelines for the Review Essay portion:
consensus, disagreement, or

6. direction scholarship is headed that you identified in the
criticism that you read.
-by-source, you
should consider organizing the
essay issue-by-issue, topic-by-topic, or theme-by-theme. This
will help you to more
readily show dialogue between sources where it exists and to
avoid repetitive summary.
important to you.
statements, and focused,
cogent body paragraphs.
essay. Be sure to attribute all
such material.
an annotated bibliography, this essay requires
no works cited page. In all
other aspects, it should conform to MLA styles and standards
for formatting,
documentation, and citation.
As always, come by office hours if you have questions or if you
need some help getting started.

7. ENGL 3332 Fall 2018 | Dr. Dominy 3
Rubric for Annotated Bibliography with Review Essay
Excellent Effective Adequate Limited Unsuccessful
Quality of
Annotations
Annotations
state the thesis
of each source
clearly and
explains its
significant
evidence and
support in
careful detail.
Demonstrates
understanding

8. of the source.
Makes it clear
the student read
the source
carefully.
Annotations
have substance.
Annotations
state the thesis
of each source
clearly and
explains its
evidence in
detail. Writing
has substance.
May not reflect
as well that
sources were

9. carefully and
thoroughly
read.
Annotations
state the thesis
and evidence
addressed in
the source
clearly.
Annotations
have logic.
Thesis of
sources not
clearly stated in
one or two
annotations; no
discussion or
explanation of

10. the evidence
used in one or
two of the
annotations.
Annotations are
bulleted, not
paragraphs, or
lack substance.
Quality of
Sources
All sources are
of strong, recent
scholarship and
are related to
the chosen
author.
All sources are
scholarly and

11. related to the
chosen author.
Sources may
be a little
dated.
The minimum
number of
sources are
annotated, all
on chosen
author, but one
may not be
scholarly or
recent.
There 4 sources
annotated or
fewer 4 are
scholarly, on the

12. chosen author,
or recent.
There are fewer
than 3 sources
annotated; Most
sources are
popular or are
off-topic or not
literary criticism.
Purpose:
Finding the
Conversation
Essay
sophisticatedly
reviews the
existing
conversation as
found in the

13. sources;
detailed, skillful
synthesis of
evidence from
sources; places
sources in
dialogue with
each other
beyond just
citation
Essay
effectively
reviews the
existing
conversation as
found in
sources;
synthesizes

14. evidence from
sources to
support claims;
places sources
in dialogue
with each other
beyond just
citation
Essay reviews
the existing
conversation in
sources;
synthesis of
evidence is
elementary or
can only place
sources in
dialogue

15. through their
direct citation
of each other.
Essay attempts
to review the
existing
conversation;
does not rely on
sources to show
the conversation
or does not
demonstrate
dialogue
between
sources.
Essay does not
answer the
assignment

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Conformity to
MLA Rules for
Works Cited
Entries
Parenthetical
citations and
works cited
entries are
complete and
may have one
or two in their
format.
Parenthetical
citations and
works cited list
may include

17. some
formatting
problems but
are complete
and clear in
their attribution
of source
material.
There are
frequent
formatting
problems or
errors with
parenthetical
citations and
works cited
entries, but
they are

18. complete and
clear in their
attribution of
source
material.
The works cited
entries or
parenthetical
citations are
incomplete has
some significant
problems, but all
quoted and
paraphrased
material is
attributed.
The assignment
has no works

19. cited entries or no
parenthetical
documentation, or
documentation is
incomplete.
*results in D or
lower on
assignment
Usage,
Grammar, Style
Has few errors
present in its
style and
proofreading.
Errors are
present but do
not distract.
Errors are

20. distracting, but
do not hinder
understanding.
Errors create
difficult reading
and hinder
understanding.
Errors create an
incomprehensible
essay.