Our class is about research in digital humanities. To that end, we are engaged in a real research question<\/a>: understanding the degree of difference between Carol Ann Duffy’s\u00a0The World’s Wife<\/em> and her previous four books of poetry. It’s a question that I don’t know the answer to yet and one that we are going to try to answer once and for all.<\/p>\n Answering this question\u00a0is<\/em> research. But doing that research depends on our being aware of what others may have said on the subject and\/or methods prior to us. This means reading and synthesizing their work so we can be thoughtful in our own.\u00a0Annotated bibliographies get students experience with some of the important steps of scholarship: finding secondary criticism and digesting it. An annotated bibliography should provoke students to read such sources more carefully: reading for its own argument rather than how it can fit into a paper that is due in 12 hours.<\/p>\n Over the course of the semester, you will read seven<\/strong> articles and\/or book chapters (hereafter referred to as “articles” for convenience’s sake) that relate to our class’s research project: investigating the degree to which the first four volumes of Carol Ann Duffy’s poetry relate to the fifth,\u00a0The World’s Wife<\/em>.<\/p>\n You will read three articles about Duffy. You will read one article about text encoding, one article about topic modeling, and one article about stylometry. As you read these six articles, you will no doubt discover (probably multiple times) that there are things you still don’t know. For the seventh article, you should chase one of these things down. In other words, pick something that seems relevant based on what you’ve read to that point.<\/p>\n You should read different articles than your colleagues. You can claim an article by “citing” it first (see step 2 below).\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n This assignment will be completed in two phases. Your articles about Duffy will be due no later than Monday, 5 March 2018 <\/strong>before class begins. Your remaining four articles will be due no later than\u00a0Monday, 9 April 2018<\/strong> before class begins.<\/p>\n For each of the seven articles, you will move through the following six (?!)\u00a0steps.<\/p>\n Using both the print and electronic resources in the BYU Library<\/a>, you will find a relevant article. The article must be peer-reviewed. This means it must be published in a scholarly journal, in a book put out by a scholarly press, or in a web resource that has been explicitly\u00a0labeled as “peer reviewed.”<\/p>\n How do you tell if something is a scholarly journal? It will probably have a very dull title (e.g.,\u00a0American Quarterly\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0English Literary History<\/em>) and be more or less text inside. The masthead will make it plain that the editorial staff has scholarly backgrounds.<\/p>\n How do you tell if something is published by a scholarly press? Often such presses use the word “university” in their names (e.g., University of Minnesota Press). This is not a hard rule as there presses like Routledge, Norton, Bedford \/ St. Martin’s, Verso, and more that publish peer-reviewed\u00a0scholarship.<\/p>\n How do you tell if a website has been peer reviewed? It will say so. You might have to check the “about” or “credits” page.<\/p>\n A blanket rule is that if the article is provided by the BYU Library\u2014either electronically or in print\u2014it will almost certainly be peer reviewed. If you have questions about whether or not an article is peer reviewed, please ask me.<\/p>\n For the articles on Duffy, I\u00a0recommend that you try the MLA International Bibliography<\/a>\u00a0database.<\/p>\n Using Zotero<\/a>, create an entry for your article. This is the equivalent of creating the 3×5 card.<\/p>\n If you have found the article online, there’s a good chance that Zotero can simply grab all the metadata like author and title. If you’ve found an article in a print book or in some instance where Zotero can’t get the metadata, you’ll just have to type it up yourself. It shouldn’t take too long though.<\/p>\n If you retrieve the article as a PDF, attach a copy of the PDF to the entry. If you read a print article, you are\u00a0not<\/em> required to include a scanned copy. However, if you do, I will regard you and your grade warmly.<\/p>\n This is the equivalent of stapling the original article to the 3×5 card.<\/p>\n After you’ve created the Zotero entry for the article (the equivalent of the 3×5 card), you will add the entry to\u00a0our shared Zotero library<\/a>. Please note that if you have the shared library selected\u00a0while<\/em> you are collecting your sources, it will automatically be shared. As such, you might be able to accomplish “Cite” and “Share” at the same time.<\/p>\n Read the article. Quelle\u00a0surprise!<\/em><\/p>\n Write an annotation for the article.\u00a0 The annotation should provide a summary of the major arguments of the text, perhaps with a representative quotation or two. In articles about Duffy, you should pay special attention to any claims the author makes about the individual volumes of poetry.<\/p>\n Each annotation should be a minimum of\u00a0two paragraphs<\/strong>.\u00a0Once you\u2019ve written your annotation, you will add it to your Zotero entry as a\u00a0Note<\/a>. Please conclude each note with your name on its own line, so we can tell who authored each annotation.<\/p>\n This assignment is worth a total of 150 points. Each of the articles is worth 20 points, with 10 points being allotted to whether the steps above have been followed and the other 10 points being allotted to the quality of the annotation.<\/p>\n The remaining 10 points will be earned for completing the assignment on time, 5 points for each deadline.<\/p>\n This assignment is an update of the Annotated Zotero Group Bibliography<\/a> that I created in 2010. 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1. Find<\/h3>\n
2. Cite<\/h3>\n
3. Attach<\/h3>\n
4. Share<\/h3>\n
5. Read<\/h3>\n
6. Annotate<\/h3>\n
Grading<\/h2>\n
Credits<\/h2>\n