Collaborative Annotated Bibliography Project
Our Collaborative Annotated Bibliography project will be devoted to secondary materials that have a substantial bearing on PMSF and related gender issues. You'll need to focus on analytical and/or expository source materials rather than fictive ones, including essays on the works or writers we're reading, theoretical or historical materials, and the like; let's exclude biographical dictionaries and encyclopedias. You'll be adding two entries to the collective.

Main criteria: how does this text help enrich, clarify, connect and/or develop your understanding of postmodernist speculative fiction, gender issues, and/or any of the writers we're reading. Note that this project still falls under the EE rubric . . . your goal here is to give in highly compressed form enough information that one of your colleagues can get a very clear taste of the essay's meat and bones.

Procedure: Typically, you'll want to locate a rich, dense, pungent, relevant, exciting, interesting, useful, quirky, evocative, or challenging essay or book chapter. Skim this carefully to see if it will suit your/our purposes. Next, read it well, making notes and gathering not only the general drift of the piece, but its structure, orientation, approach, assumptions, major points of connection with our discourse, etc. Finally, write a summary abstract based on these notes; this AB should be roughly 1-3 pages, single-spaced; make it in Microsoft Word or ClarisWorks. Note: This summary abstract is a longer version of the summary described in this useful disquisition on the making of summaries.

Due date is March 19th, and at that point we'll convert these into HTML and add the results to the course web pages.