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Assignment: Descriptive Annotations

Read 'Descriptive Annotations' This article explains how we will put together our skills in summarizing, quoting, and paraphrasing to write a descriptive annotation of a source. As the article explains, a good description includes:

Information about who the author(s) of the work are and their credentials;

Summary of the work's main points -- > This is where you tell your reader what the book or article is really ABOUT;

1. Explanation of what the book or article includes in terms of charts, images, tables, or other related content;

2. Discussion of the work's tone and writing style (this can include a brief quote from the work itself);

3. Anything else that you think someone researching the same topic would want to know about the book or article

4. In some cases, we will summarize this information, and in other instances, we will provide quotes and/or paraphrased information as examples. Choose any article (reading) in CGHH (our textbook) and write a descriptive annotation that includes the five characteristics of a "good description," as stated in Descriptive Annotations. For example, "Two Other Options: Paraphrasing and Summarizing" (p. 384) is considered an article in our textbook.

5. Ensure that you format your paper per MLA guidelines. You may choose any article (section of writing) from the book. For example, our textbook also has an excellent article on sentence fragments, though you can choose any article.