ENGL 420: Senior Capstone Seminar: Annotated BIbliographies

This guide will support your capstone proposal and annotated bibliography assignments.

Why Annotated Bibliographies?

Record your research

Summarize others' arguments

Become aware of a larger critical conversation

Find gaps in which to further the conversation

They Say / I Say by Gerald Graff; Cathy Birkenstein
Call Number: Course Reserves OSTER 600
Publication Date: 2006
"They Say / I Say" shows that writing well means mastering some key rhetorical moves, the most important of which involves summarizing what others have said ("they say") to set up one's own argument ("I say"). In addition to explaining the basic moves, this book provides writing templates that show students explicitly how to make these moves in their own writing.