CRITICAL ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

CRITICAL ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Can you please describe your brief?

The bibliography should summarise and critique 3 to 4 important and relevant texts. (I have provided the readings). Using your reading list and bibliographic research tools you need to identify 3-4 key texts on a concept or theme.  These texts can include chapters in edited collections, journal articles, and books.

The starting point for this assessment is to summarise each source. Think about what the key point of the reading is; identify its central argument; is it empirical or theoretical; what kinds of evidence does it use?

The next task is to critically evaluate the reading. As you do these try to answer the following questions of the reading: is its argument coherent and plausible? Are you convinced by the argument and why? How robust is the data? What theory is the argument located within? Are concepts consistent with theory? Are the conclusions internally consistent?

At the end of the bibliography evaluate your work in a concluding paragraph. Here you should think about what the balance of the readings is: are they all from one theoretical stance or using a similar body of data? What is the dominant paradigm used to understand the concepts or issues you have been reading about? Are there dissenting voices? What gaps do you think there are in the way that these key texts handle these concepts or issues?