An annotated bibliography can help academic writers organize themselves and their sources. We’ll work on one somewhat collaboratively, drawing on your hard work with Module 1’s library assignment and its internet assignment.

I’ll model the skills discussed below with this long journal article. On the first day of our discussion we’ll summarize the opening 8 pages; on Wednesday, Oct 6 you’ll bring in 3-4 sentences summarizing the “Discussion” and “Results” sections:

Polleck, J. N., & Epstein, T. (2015). Affirmation, Analysis, and Agency: Book Clubs as Spaces for Critical Conversations with Young Adolescent Women of Color. Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts, 54 (1). Retrieved from https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/reading_horizons/vol54/iss1/5:  [SUMMARY HERE]

Today in class we’ll work on summarizing by editing the work of our peers to short entries. These collective annotated bibliography sources come from your library assignment and your internet assignment from Module 1. You might use them in your work for Module 2 and 3:

1. Kameir, Rawiya. “From the Philippines to Harvard, Boyhood to Womanhood, a Coming-of-age across Borders.” The New York Times. The New York Times, 26 May 2020. Web. 26 Sept. 2021: Rawiya Kameir begins the article with an introduction of who Meredith Talusan is, and the ideas of gender, race, and sexuality that can either cause or regular discrimination. Kameir also mentions that Talusan tries to understand the connection between her identities, making her feel like her experience as an individual is ‘special’ (unique). In the end of Kameir’s article, Talusan realizes that she has privilege due to her fair skin, which people of color, like her brother, experience “a harsher America,” because they aren’t like her in complexion.  I think this article has great credibility because the author made sure to mention Meredith Talusan, the type of book she published, and the title. In terms of reliability, this article is made with lots of paraphrasing, but with a lack of evidence, which makes it somewhat unreliable (since I haven’t read the book, I’d hold off on saying that the article is completely unusable in my own summary of Fairest). In conclusion, this article is very credible and is reliable, but in order to fully grasp its reliability, I’d need to experience Fairest in its entirety for myself. (Contributed by Chris)
2. Kirkus Reviews. “ORDINARY GIRLS A MEMOIR.” Kirkus, Kirkus Reviews, 29 Oct. 2019, www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jaquira-diaz/ordinary-girls-memoir.: The source, Kirkus, gives us a summary and review about the book. There are details and quotes from the book, but also opinions as well. The source is credible because it is a trusted platform, it has the date it was posted, and it was reviewed/improved. Also, other trusted websites describe it as reliable.  (Contributed by Karen)
3. Goodman, Bryan. “Children Notice Race Several Years before Adults Want to Talk about It.” American Psychological Association, American Psychological Association, 27 Aug. 2020, https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2020/08/children-notice-race. Children often recognize the concept of race from infancy. The connections and associations they make with certain races travel with them into their older age and effects how they see the world. The release of this article is fairly new and for sure relevant. It´s purpose is to inform people of the urgency of debunking racism early on.This source is credible because they are a professional organization. The source of their information is clearly stated and there is an email to contact him. (Contributed by Elijah)
4. Diaz, J. (2017, September 4). You do not belong Here: Kenyon review online. The Kenyon Review. Retrieved September 27, 2021, from https://kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/resistance-change-survival/selections/jaquira-diaz-656342/. Jaquira Diaz writes in her essay titled “you do not belong here” about being told time and time again that she, along with every women and person of color, does not belong here. She talks about her being in Ohio and her encounter with racists and how she stays to defy. She stays to defy and disprove what she is being told. This essay, “You Do Not Belong Here” is source credible and in fact does pass the CRAAP test. This is because this essay is a primary source of Jaquria Diaz’s recountings. (Contributed by Julie)
5. Staves, Dana. “Four Methods on Choosing What to Read Next.” 2021 Riot new media group, https://bookriot.com/four-methods-choosing-read-next/. Accessed 30 September 2014. I found a website called “Four Methods on Choosing What to Read Next.” I believed that this was relevant to our assignment on picking a book to read because it gives us different steps we could take to come to our decision. This source passes the CRAAP test because its’s used to teach people different methods that work. One of the methods were to read a page of the book or a chapter, and it reminded me of when we did the page 99 test. (Contributed by Leslie)
6. Díaz, J. (2015). Ordinary Girls. The Kenyon Review, 37(6), new series, 4-18. Retrieved September 3, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/24781101: (Contributed by Sharyana, 
7. Schroeder, Sarah. “Talusan, Meredith. Fairest.” Library Journal, vol. 145, no. 4, Apr. 2020, p. 105. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A619849180/ITOF?u=lehman_main&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=538b82a8. Accessed 13 Sept. 2021.:Sarah Schroeder published her review of “Fairest”, a memoir written by a transgender, albino and philipino woman, in Library Journal ( an American Trade publication for librarians), where she gave us an overview of what to expect from the book and the key topics. She did not give too much information nor talk about a specific story/experience, but still managed to get the reader interested enough to want to learn more. She started out with her own opinion on the book saying it is  “standing out from the crowd” and is something “even for avid readers of memoirs” . Then, she shares a bit more about what goes on in the book and creates a small summary for a couple of sentences. Schroeder finishes up with her personal opinion again when giving her verdict and thoughts. Her final verdict sums up the three main themes of MeredithTalusan’s memoir: gender, sexuality and race. We all struggle with those topics in our day to day life. The questions we ask ourselves on who we truly are is never something easy to answer, so it helps to be able to read about someone with similar experiences. We all need to feel understood and not alone. Schroeder’s review is short, but informative with just enough details. Straight to the point, right away she got across the important parts that hooks the potential reader. (Contributed by Karen; also contributed by Chris).
8. Grande, Reyna. “Abused, Addicted, Biracial and Queer: Jaquira Diaz Is Anything but ‘Ordinary’.” International New York Times 15 Nov. 2019: NA. Business Insights: Essentials. Web. 12 Sept. 2021.:  Before choosing ‘Ordinary Girls’ as the book I will be reading, I wanted to see what the book Is about and if it would catch my interest. This is exactly why I chose to read and summarize a book review for today’s assignment.  The review is from a Newpaper by the name of New York Times and the author, Reyna Grande, tells the reader the main premise of ‘Ordinary Girls’ before heading into their own thoughts and feelings about the story.  The review goes on the describe Diaz’s early life, Jaquira Díaz being the author of ‘Ordinary Girls’, and cites how she grew up in Puerto Rico with her cheating father who sold drugs, her jealous mother with raging fits, and her siblings. Eventually when they move to Mami Beach her home life gets even more chaotic and she tries to commit suicide at the age of 11, her life only seeming to worsen from there.  However, while Reyna Grande compliments Jaquira Diaz’s writing and her way to keep the text complex and power, she does have some gripes about the story and writing of ‘Ordinary girls’. While Diaz’s life does get better, Renya Grande argues how we never see this turning point. Not only that but the little times we do get to see how her future self is, it is very confusing and hard to keep track of. However, Renya Grande suggests that this could only help to tell how confused Diaz felt about her own life. The author of the review praises Jaquira Diaz for having the guts to write about her life without shying away from the nasty bits and how her struggles help to encourage other young girls. (Contributed by Julie)
9. Brown, Mehgan and Laymon, Kiese. ¨ I Don’t Want People to Forget the Sentence. ¨ Melus: Multi- Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Project Muse.https://muse-jhu-edu.lehman.ezproxy.cuny.edu/article/718686:  In the interview ¨ I Don’t Want People To Forget the Sentence ¨ with Meghan Brown, Kiese Laymon speaks of the factors that influence some of his creative writings. This interview specifically highlights the thinking behind his essay collection ¨ How To Slowly Kill Yourself and Others America¨ and the novel ¨ Long Division ¨. Throughout the two of these stories, the impact of music makes important statements about the ways it has influenced the past and present. In ¨How To Slowly Kill Yourself and Others America¨, many of stories are arranged as songs which enhance the authors idea of “dual repetition”: the repetition of the line “I don’t know what’s wrong with me” and repetition of age (“three years older than”), and repetition is kind of what makes music¨ (Laymon). Techniques used in music were used here to give his essay a theme and flow.  In “ Long Division” the influence of music shows up again during Laymon’s writing process as he says ¨ And then when I was writing the ’80s part, I listened to a lot of ’80s hip hop, ’80s soul¨ (Laymon).  The power of music proves itself true in this moment because it helped the author feel a necessary nostalgia for the intended emotion at certain parts of his book. In addition to music, “ Long Division” digs even deeper to expose the impacts of race and technology in a different way. One of the characters, Baize, is an upcoming female rapper who´d successfully become an internet sensation through the usage of youtube. One point made by the author is that although the media has created a new way for things to be stored and showcased, ¨The sentences will always be there, and then the sentences for our behavior will always be there¨(Laymon). This alludes to the idea that reading and writing will always be relevant and that it shouldn’t be forgotten. Lastly, this interview highlighted the importance of race in ¨Long Division¨ and how inequality has and always will be a factor of the African American experience. (Contributed by Elijah).

    

We will also be looking at these piece of writing from two other standpoints besides those of an interested reader with the goal of writing a brief summary. Those two goals are:

1. the goal of recognizing, understanding, and repeating in our work the features of this text (such as citations, titles, subheadings, block quotes, transcripts, and works cited pages).
2. the goal of learning to read with different goals than comprehensive understanding–that is, to learn to preview (to decide if something is ‘worth’ a closer read), to skim (to read through for basic ideas, arguments, and structures), to scan (to read for specific information), and to review (to read quickly something you have read once or twice closely).

The initial sources we’ll look at with the plug-in Hypothes.is may include:

1. Álvarez-Álvarez. “Book Clubs: An Ethnographic Study of an Innovative Reading Practice in Spain.” Studies in Continuing Education., vol. 38, no. 2, 2016, doi:10.1080/0158037X.2015.1080676.
2. Hulan, N. (2010). What the students will say when the teacher is away: An investigation into student-led and teacher-led discussion within guided reading groups. Literacy Teaching and Learning, 14, 41-64. Retrieved from http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ888268
3. Petrich, Nathaniel R.. (2015). Book Clubs: Conversations Inspiring Community. i.e.: inquiry in education: Vol. 7: Iss. 1, Article 4. Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.nl.edu/ie/vol7/iss1/4
4. Richard Beach and Steven Yussen. “Practices of Productive Adult Book Clubs.” Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 55.2 (2011): 121–131. Web.
5. Twomey, Sarah. “Reading ‘Woman’: Book Club Pedagogies and the Literary Imagination.” Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, vol. 50, no. 5, 2007, pp. 398–407. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40015481. Accessed 12 Nov. 2020.

Each of these articles is posted to our Library as a PDF. These should be screenreader accessible and Hypothes.is should also work on them. Please let me know if either of those is not the case!

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In addition to these resources, which are PEER-REVIEWED, we’ll continue our fieldwork with an observation of a book group discussion from the SASSY BOOK CLUB.

Please complete that and then also conduct some open-internet research on effective book groups. We’ll use the primary text, “How to Start a Book Club that Doesn’t Suck” and a few other resources, and then you’ll go from there. As you compile them, and add them in here, consider what these sources offer that the peer-reviewed sources don’t. What do these two source types have in common?