S. Rose

English 680 Writing Program Administration

Fall 2003

Annotated Bibliography and/or List of Internet Resources for WPA subfield

Some Notes on Expectations for those of you doing an annotated bibliography on an issue of concern for writing program administrators (one of the course projects options)

Subject:

Choose an area with a scope narrow enough for you to do a reasonably thorough job of identifying and reviewing resources. For example, “WAC” is too broad; “Archiving Writing Programs” is probably too narrow, though developing a list of resources on archiving for WPAs might work.

Choose a focus that will help you make connection between WPA issues and an area in which you already have some expertise or a broad reading knowledge or an interest that will sustain you. For example, if you’re currently enrolled in Professor Blackmon's "Computers in Language and Rhetoric" seminar, you might put together a list of resources on issues Writing Program Administrators need to be informed about; if you took Professor Rickert's "Rhetoric of Institutional Discourse" last year, you might want to focus on "must reads" from that field for WPAs..

Annotations:

Your annotations should be about 75 to 100 words for each item included—enough for readers to determine whether the source is likely to be of interest to them, but not enough to serve as a substitute for reading it themselves.

The annotations should have an evaluative or critical element to them, but the focus should be a characterization of the resource.

The annotations should specifically and explicitly make clear the items’ relevance to WPAs.

Number of items:

This will depend on what’s available. If you have fewer than twelve items, though, you probably need to broaden the scope a bit; if you have more than 25, you may need to narrow the scope.

Format:

Your Annotated Bibliography can be a print document or a web document. If you create a web document, plan on including it on the course website.

Questions?