Topical Bibliography

Topical Bibliography (15 points)

 

As a way of expanding our reading list and preparing for your final project, I will ask each of you to construct an individualized topical bibliography on a sub-issue, sub-concept, or sub-question that you think reasonably fits within the purview of “Global Rhetorics.” 

This will be your opportunity to compile briefly annotated entries for between 10 and 15 sources that you think we—or future classes—should read as part of our investigation. I encourage you to look to the supplementary resources on reserve, to the journals listed at the end of this syllabus, to spare chapters in our requires texts (ANGR, MV, or ROTA), and/or to other bibliographies and works cited lists of things you have read, so long as they are relevant. 

Your topical bibliography is a set of resources that belong together, so it should contain some kind of brief but specific overview of the critical question driving it, followed by 10-15 annotations (~1-2 well-developed paragraphs each, single-spaced), in which you discuss the main argument and organization or methodology of each source; mention key terms, topics, or theorists highlighted in the source; and describe what each source could specifically offer to a study of the issue, concept, question, or tradition you have identified.   

MLA or Chicago style citations preferred. Due to Canvas on Friday, March 18, by 12:00 p.m. (noon).