Assignment Task
This assessment task aims to extend your beginning understanding of Discourse Analysis (DA) by asking you to read and annotate a mix of DA sources.
You are not expected to ‘evaluate’ the sources from a position of expertise in DA; rather, the point is to read a variety of sources with a view to learning more about DA and to be able to say something qualitative about the sources, rather than just describing content; although you’ve been asked to do a bit of that in summarising key points. But we also want you to demonstrate what you’ve understood from the source by saying something, however briefly, about what you’ve learned from the piece/how useful it might be/what it might contribute to preparing you for conducting your own DA.
Choosing your sources for A1:
Choose at least five, but no more than seven, scholarly articles (some can be book chapters). One article/chapter can be chosen from the Workshop 4 essential reading list and the others will be found by surveying the published literature on discourse analysis. Include both theoretical and applied sources.
The theoretical sources will be about discourse analysis (DA). They will explain DA in some way and further inform your thinking and understanding of (Foucauldian) DA. The applied sources will use discourse analysis. They will be examples of a DA conducted in the therapy studies, or related, field and will show you what a DA looks like (in this way, giving you ideas for conducting your own small discourse analysis for A3).
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Presentation of your annotated bibliography:
You do not need to include an introduction or conclusion for this assignment. List your sources in alphabetical order (by author family name) using the full citation as a heading for each annotation.
The annotation for each citation should be between 150-200 words and the total wordcount for all of the 5-7 annotations should not exceed 1000 words (excluding citation headings). For example, 5 citations at approx. 200 words; or 7 citations at approx. 150 words; or some combination thereof.
Constructing the annotations:
The annotation for each citation will provide an evaluative summary with 3 main elements:
1) concisely describes the key points (or arguments/findings).
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