In this report, the student finds a journal article, reading, chapter, or text on an assigned topic or subject. The student writes a short summary or commentary that describes and explains the gist of the subject matter. Please document and submit the concise commentary by using a standard APA referencing format. In class, after reading the document, the student provides a brief oral explanatory commentary that includes any critical statements or ideas relative to the subject matter. The purpose of the report is to inform others about differing or supportive points of view on a particular topic or subject. Following the brief oral reports, the professor facilitates a class discussion wherein the students provide additional comments, questions, criticisms or supporting statements. During the oral reports, the students are encouraged to keep a notation of any comments, questions, clarifications and/or responses that they will use later in the large group discussion phase.
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Below is a sample informative annotation taken from http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/AnnBib_content.html
Informative - Simply put, this form of annotation is a summary of the source. To write it, begin by writing the thesis; then develop it with the argument or hypothesis, list the proofs, and state the conclusion.
Example
Informative (summary--tell us what the main findings or arguments are in the source)
Voeltz, L.M. (1980). Children's attitudes toward handicapped peers. American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 84, 455-64.
As services for severely handicapped children become increasingly available within neighborhood public schools, children's attitudes toward handicapped peers in integrated settings warrant attention.Factor analysis of attitude survey responses of 2,392 children revealed four factors underlying attitudes toward handicapped peers: social-contact willingness, deviance consequation, and two actual contact dimensions. Upper elementary-age children, girls, and children in schools with most contact with severely handicapped peers expressed the most accepting attitudes. Results of this study suggest the modifiability of children's attitudes and the need to develop interventions to facilitate social acceptance of individual differences in integrated school settings. (Sternlicht and Windholz, 1984, p. 79)