Write an annotated bibliography for the scholarly readings assigned on participatory culture or cultural imperialism (Taylor). Be sure to start with a full citation of the reading and use bold for this header to distinguish the text from your annotation.
The reading is attached on file.
An annotated bibliography is a three paragraph, 400-500 word assessment of an article you read.
You may take a look at , on the full version of Robin Wood’s article “Ideology, Genre, Auteur” (1977).
An annotated bibliography is a three paragraph, 400-500 word assessment of an article you read.
- The first paragraph (usually the longest) summarizes the author’s argument and the conversation or research question with which it is engaged. Do your best here to present the author’s argument on their own terms. Quote a key phrase or two that help communicate the main idea.
- The second paragraph offers thoughts about what from this article could be useful for you, given your subject or area of interest. For instance, all of you will be writing about Star Wars in relation to ideas about genre. When you read a theory about what genre is or how genres change, are there ideas that do and don’t make sense for the way you’re thinking about Star Wars?
- The third paragraph discusses the limitations you see in the author’s argument given the scope, method, or subject matter used to make it.
Over the course of the semester, you will write five of these annotated bibliography entries. Please keep them in the same Google Doc, and revise them in light of conversations we have in class or new ideas you think up. These are the building blocks for papers you will write in the course.
