CREATING A WORKING OUTLINE

CREATING A WORKING OUTLINE

This discussion explores two key ideas for this week:

Preparing your sources for writing and creating a working outline

Creating an annotated bibliography

Let’s look at preparing your sources for writing and creating a working outline in this discussion post this week.

POST 1

For your BY WEDNESDAY post, read the contextual material and follow the directions below.  Post by Wednesday for 2 post-by-Wednesday points and 6 points for quality and timing.

In this discussion, you will read your sources carefully, prepare a working outline of your essay, and identify specific source information you want to include in your essay.

Download and read the following documents:

Preparing Your Sources to Use in Your WritingPreview the document

Typical Outline for a Problem-Solution Course Project EssayPreview the document

Working Outline Student Sample MUSIC BUSINESSPreview the document

Working Outline Student Sample TRAFFICPreview the document

 Read carefully each of the sources you gathered for your Week 3 Research Log (see my comments in the Week 3 Writing assignment gradebook).

Download Week 4 Working Outline Template. Preview the documentSave the template as Your Last Name Working Outline.

Create a working outline of your paper.

Determine your thesis or main idea—now that you have researched and thought about your problem, what do you think we should do about it?

For each section of your essay, brainstorm 2- 3 points you want to make in each of the major sections of your essay. Your points should be expressed as full sentences. (These sentences will become the topic sentences of your paper.)

When you are ready, click on the Reply button, label your post as a BY WEDNESDAY post and attach your working outline.  Sign your post when you are finished. Complete your outline as early in the week as you can, so you can work on your annotated bibliography.

DQ2 “REVERSE ENGINEERING” AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

NOTE: You will get full credit for this discussion if you…

attend this week’s live lesson stream and participate fully in the discussions and activities

OR

watch the live stream recording and make at least one post, addressing the prompt below.

 Documents hyperlinked below can also be found in these folders under the FILES Tab:

Weeks 3 -7 Course Project Folder / Week 4 subfolder

This week your main writing task is to create an annotated bibliography. According to the APA Publication Manual, 7th edition, an annotated bibliography is a “type of student paper in which reference list entries are followed by short descriptions of the work called annotations” (p. 307). There are several reasons to create an annotated bibliography:

You start creating the likely reference list you will need for your essay.

You start reading your source material, which in turn helps you understand your topic more fully.

You start thinking about how the source is helpful to your project and how you can use information in the individual sources to support your ideas.

 POST

For this discussion post, read the contextual material and follow the directions below.  Post for up to 10 points.

Read Lesson 4 and the SmartBook Reading assignment

Download and read carefully the following student examples:

Annotated Bibliography Student Sample MUSIC BUSINESSPreview the document

Annotated Bibliography Student Sample TRAFFICPreview the document

Choose one of the student sample annotated bibliographies to “reverse engineer.”  What do you see in this example?

When you are ready, click on the Reply button and answer the following questions. Sign your post when you are finished.

Which annotated bibliography did you read? Who was the student author?

What are the different parts of an annotated bibliography?

What kind of information is included in the introduction?

Overall, how is the document formatted?

How are the five sources organized? How is each source formatted?

Does the annotation come before or after the references list entry?

What kind of information is included in the annotation?