Author: Brian

Final Version of the Annotated Zotero Group Bibliography

I just wanted to post a quick note in a follow-up to last week's post about my Annotated Zotero Group Bibliography assignment. I've finished the assignment, which you can see below. I appreciated all of the comments that I received on the blog and on Twitter about the initial draft. I especially drew ideas from … Continue reading Final Version of the Annotated Zotero Group Bibliography →

Annotated Zotero Group Bibliography Assignment

In the last few years of teaching, I have been persuaded by a few friends to include annotated bibliographies as assignments in some of my classes. Such an assignment gets students experience with some of the important steps of literary scholarship: finding secondary criticism and digesting it. While I could just assign the standard end-of-term … Continue reading Annotated Zotero Group Bibliography Assignment →

At ProfHacker: Shifting a Syllabus

My newest post for ProfHacker is on shifting the days of your syllabus, something that I had to do for the first time this semester. I'm not sure that there is really all that much advice that can be given on this issue, but I'm hopeful that the comments will turn something new up.