I hate annotated bibliographies. Hate them. I hated doing them as a student and hate grading them as a prof, so I never assign them.
Our 1101 has a research component, but I just make their final argumentative essay a research essay; they have to have a certain number of scholarly sources to back up their ideas.
1102 is literature based, and also requires at least one essay to be a research essay. What I have done before is have something like what you're talking about. Every student has to find one scholarly article about one of the short stories we're reading; they have to link it on the communal discussion board, they have to provide the correct MLA citation for it, and they have to write a short summary of it. This way, students have a small pool of articles they can go ahead and choose from instead of starting their research from scratch.
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Our 1101 has a research component, but I just make their final argumentative essay a research essay; they have to have a certain number of scholarly sources to back up their ideas.
1102 is literature based, and also requires at least one essay to be a research essay. What I have done before is have something like what you're talking about. Every student has to find one scholarly article about one of the short stories we're reading; they have to link it on the communal discussion board, they have to provide the correct MLA citation for it, and they have to write a short summary of it. This way, students have a small pool of articles they can go ahead and choose from instead of starting their research from scratch.