The effectiveness of an Annotated Bibliography (AB) assignment hinges on the requirements, and often the source types, that you incorporate in its design. A brief annotated bibliography assignment with a few detailed source requirements hits each of the SLOs:
- Learn topic development: The AB can introduce students to new ways of interrogating ideas on a scoped topic.
- Become familiar with a variety of source types: The AB can help students categorize different types and formats of sources that they were not exposed to in high school.
- Practice critical evaluation of information: The AB can ask students to use a provided criteria to identify the most effective sources and explain how they are effective.
- Discover information and sources beyond Google.
- Apply the intellectual practice of incorporating and citing sources, and academic integrity concepts.