WRTG 391 UMGC Wk 2 Teaching Grammar and Editing in Public Administration Bibliography

Step 1: Watch the video, “How to Write an Annotated Bibliography-7th edition.” (It’s in this week’s Content.)

Step 2: Access and then read the article, “Teaching Grammar and Editing in Public Administration: Lessons Learned from Early Offerings of an Undergraduate Administrative Writing Course,” by Claire Connolly Knox.

This article is in the e-reserves section of your class. You can access the article by taking the following steps:

• click Content
• select Class Resources
• select eReserves
• select the icon for eReserves in the middle of your page.
• in the list of items that appears, locate the article and download it

Step 3: Create an annotation of this article as if you were considering it for a source in a paper. Here’s how:

• List the article in APA format, as the video describes. (Note: the publication date for this article is not listed. A quick Google Search of the article title will show you that the year of publication is 2013. Include this in your citation.)
• Write a 100-to-150-word summary/critique of the article in which you not only summarize the article but also note any strengths or weaknesses you find in it. In addition, mention whether it will be a possible article for an essay on the topic of teaching grammar in writing courses. (Note: you won’t be writing about this topic for your own writing assignments.)

Your annotation thus should include the following:

• Focus of the study (~ 1-2 sentences
• Conclusion(s) of the study (~ 1-2 sentences)
• Analysis of the study (e.g., any strengths or weaknesses? Any thing that was particularly remarkable/helpful?) (~ 1-2 sentences)
• Its relevance to research on teaching grammar in writing courses (~ 1-2 sentences)

Please refer to the “Sample Annotated Bibliography-7th edition” in this week’s Content for an example.