Annotated Webliography
This project will require you to research sources available online about a topic related to your major or potential career. Through individual reviews of each source, your “webliography” will evaluate these sources and discuss the relative value of the sources to one another. Your secondary source review may be used as one of these sources.
You’ll post an introduction and your reviews of your sources on your own blog.
Definition
An annotated webliography is generally an online document with hypertext links to sources about the subject with reviews of the linked sources’ quality. These webliographies are generally posted to websites. To post your webliography, you will create your own online blog.
Examples
https://hannahdurnell.wixsite.com/mysite/blog
https://rachellargent7.wixsite.com/website
https://nursingrecs.blogspot.com/
https://teachingcatchall.wordpress.com/
Requirements and Suggestions
For your annotated multimedia webliography, you will create a categorized list of web resources about your topic. You will post this webliography on your own blog. You must follow these requirements:
Your webliography should have at least twenty entries; these entries will be individual reviews of at least twenty sources. Your entries must include traditional web pages, videos, blogs, and podcasts (you must have at least one of each of these media). You must include a distinctive title for your blog that identifies your webliography’s “What?” and “So what?” for your intended audience. You can use any system of categorization for your entries that seems appropriate. You must include an introduction that identifies your webliography’s audience and purpose and a few relevant facts about you as an author (you can use a pseudonym, but you must make sure that I’m aware of that pseudonym). Each entry should also include a short description of the argument or information presented by the source. You can use direct quotations from the reviewed sources that support your review of the source information or include quotes that particularly pertain to your own research. You must include a brief analysis of each source. From your description and analysis of each source your audience should understand why you chose a given source, out of thousands, to include in your webliography. Your analyses should use Standard English with complete sentences. Please include valuable, reliable sources suitable for your intended audience in your webliography. The first sentence of your introduction and of each individual entry must use only active voice sentences with transitive verbs (SVO pattern). Posting the Webliography
For this assignment, you won’t need to turn in a hard copy. Instead, you’ll email me a link your webliography. To post the webliography online, you will need a blog.
Here are some free blog servers; blogger, wix, tumblr, and wordpress are some free options. Many websites themselves offer advice on how to create an effective blog. Wix seems to have been the easiest to use in recent semesters.
When you create the webliography for your blog, consider how your design decisions may influence your intended audience. You can use a pre-designed template, but customize it to include elements specific to your topic (incorporating images and so forth).
To submit the final version of your webliography, submit a link to the blog where you have posted your webliography.
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