Paper Trails: My Alternative to the Annotated Bibliography

I’ve always loved the annotated bibliography assignment, because I am just that kind of a geek. I regularly assign annotated bibliographies as a preparatory assignment for the longer research paper as I believe it helps us cover a number of essential skills and lays a solid foundation for that sort of writing. But this semester I knew I would be teaching a number of students still struggling with college level literacy in my First Year Seminar and knew I would need better scaffolding for the projects I hoped to see. So I went in search of an alternative to my traditional AB assignment. I was inspired by Kathee Godfrey’s Information Literacy assignment (which was in turn inspired by Joanna Burkhardt and Mary MacDonald’s Paper Trails project) to create my own Paper Trails assignment.

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