Peer Reviewed Article

Assignment Summary:

In this assignment, students will benefit from exposure to peer-reviewed journals and scholarly work in the field of literature. In research, writers include what is called a Literature Review, where they discuss other literature pertaining to the topic of their research. This assignment is the beginning stages of a literature review where the readers summarizes and responds to their research.

For project 1, students will look for a peer-reviewed literary journal article that stands out to them. While close reading the article, students will annotate the text then create a brief summary and response to the article. Students will submit their annotated article, a 200-300 word summary, and a 300-500 word reflection.

Learning Process

Look for a peer-reviewed article from a literary scholarly journal
Annotate the article and submit annotations
Write a brief summary (200-300 words) and reflection (300-500 words) on the article
- Summary:
  - What is the article about? This is a brief retelling of the article, not your thoughts or opinions.
- Reflection:
  - Share your thoughts on the author's journal
  - Do you agree with their thoughts?
  - What stood out to you as interesting observations made?
  - You are not required to include direct quotes from the article but if you'd like to include 1-2 quotes to reflect upon, you are encouraged to do so (with parenthetical citations)

Step 1: Choose Your Text

Library Guide

Our library department chair developed an AMAZING guide to help you specifically with this assignment! If you click on this link, you will be sent to our course research guide that provides the assignment requirements and support for how to find a peer-reviewed article. This will help you so much so please be sure to utilize this great resource he made just for our class.

In your search, I recommend you narrow it down to "literature" and then go from there. You can be more specific and search for terms like "gothic children's literature" or just look through until you find an article that interests you.

Use the tabs on the left of the webpage to navigate the steps provided by the librarian for help.

Logging on to the Library

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Additional problem solving:
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You must be currently enrolled in this semester at Cuyamaca.
If you are a student at Grossmont College only and not Cuyamaca College, you must use the databases through Grossmont's library.
If you still get the error message, contact the Help Desk (c-helpdesk@gcccd.edu or 619-660-4395).

https://ccc.libanswers.com/Cuyamaca_FAQs/faq/339595

Step 2: Close Read and Annotate

The second part of this assignment requires you to annotate your text. You are analyzing the text to identify the main argument and supporting points the author uses to persuade their audience. Pay attention to weaknesses in the article's arguments - remember you will be identifying their points and aruging against them.

Your annotations should identify:

Who is making the argument? Is it the author speaking (first person) or in third person?
Who is the intended audience for this text?
What is the argument the text is making?
What points does the author use to support their argument? Indentify those by highlighting or underlining and labeling as "main ideas."
Identify and label examples of evidence the author uses to persuade their audience.
Does the author identify counter-arguments (points that someone who disagrees with them might make)? If so, identify those as well.

You can highlight/underline terms, phrases, or sentences but try not to cover too much of the text, only the most important points.

Use a pen or pencil to annotate in the margins. This is where you can write your own thoughts/reactions/observations to what is being discussed in the article, ask questions, identify key terms, etc.

Step 3: Summary

Once you read and annotate the article, you will write a brief summary of the text. Your summary is a retelling of the important aspects of the article. You are not including your own feelings or opinions of the text, just stating what the author is saying in your own words.

Your summary should:

include the title, author, and journal of publication
stay between 200-300 words
be written in MLA format
be written in your words
discuss the general topic of the article
state the authors research question/argument
identify key points from the article and how they support their thesis

Unless there is a very specific statement that you cannot paraphrase, you should generally not have direct quotes in your summary.

Step 4: Reflection

In addition to a summary, students will also write a personal reflection about the journal article. This is where you will discuss your own thoughts on the research you read. You aren't necessarily aruging with the author, you are just sharing your personal reaction to their research, thesis, and main points.

Your reflection should:

stay between 300-500 words
be written in MLA format
Share your thoughts on the author's thesis/argument
- - Do you agree with their thoughts?
  - What statements/observations by the author stood out to you?
  - You are not required to include direct quotes from the article but if you'd like to include 1-2 quotes to reflect upon, you are encouraged to do so (with parenthetical citations)

Step 5: Final Draft Submission

Final Checklist:

Annotated article
Summary (200-300 words)
Reflection (300-500 words)
MLA format
Works Cited Page (just the journal article will be cited)

Reminders:

Keep your summary and reflections within the word count range.
You can put your summary and reflection on one document, they do not need to be separate.
Make sure you are submitting BOTH your annotated article AND your summary/reflection. These can be uploaded as one document or two separate documents.
We will not doing peer reviews or feedback on this. If you would like feedback before you submit, I highly encourage you to work with an English center tutor.

Reminder:

Every assignment in this course is graded as a complete or incomplete. If you are putting effort into your work and ensuring you are meeting the minimum expectations, you should earn a complete. Here is the rubric from Canvas that will be used to ensure you have met all required elements of the project.

If you earn an incomplete on this, you can look back at the rubric to determine what revisions need to be done, revise your submission, and resubmit. You are not penalized for revising and resubmitting, that is showing you are willing to put effort into your work!

You have one month from receiving feedback to revise and resubmit. No resubmission will be accepted past one month of receiving feedback.

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