English 133 Annotated Bibilography

Annotated Bibliography Comment by Kellie Ferguson: Title is centered

Dolmage, Jay T. and John J. Ruszkiewicz. How to Write Anything, 4th edition. Bedford St. Martins, 2019 Comment by Kellie Ferguson: Author names Comment by Kellie Ferguson: Set in hanging indent, Times New Roma, 12 pt font. Comment by Kellie Ferguson: Book title and edition Comment by Kellie Ferguson: Publisher Comment by Kellie Ferguson: Date of publication

Dolmage and Ruszkiewicz’s textbook provides a thorough guide intended to help college level students develop and strengthen their writing skills. Throughout the book, they present a number of different writing strategies that will help students break down and understand the types of writing they will have to do in college. Additionally, they provide a number of sample readings that exemplify some of the different genres, organizational strategies, and rhetorical skills they present throughout the guide portion of this textbook. Comment by Kellie Ferguson: In this section, provide a brief summary of the source. Develop the summary by skimming the source, looking to get a grasp of what might be contained within the source. You do not have to read the entire source at this point. Instead, look for introduction paragraphs, table of contents, titles and subtitles, and overviews of the source to develop an understanding of what it is about. Then, summarize this here.

This text might be helpful for teachers who are developing curriculum for first year composition students. The layout of the text provides an easy structure upon which to build lesson plans and focus in on specific elements of the writing process. Additionally, this textbook would be helpful for students who are working towards mastering writing and composition skills. Because it works for both teachers and students, this book appears to be a helpful guide and textbook for English 121/first year composition students. Comment by Kellie Ferguson: In this section, explain how the source would be helpful. For example: you might discuss who would engage with this source or use it. You also want to discuss how it will be helpful in your research paper.