An annotation is a brief (generally one paragraph) description of
the source for which you provide a citation. Your annotation should
provide the citation for the article you are describing and briefly
summarize the author's argument and describe how it is relevant to
our discussion of Athenian Litigation. If the author is writing from
a clearly identifiable academic discipline or political ideology
(e.g., anthropologist, deconstructionist, Marxist), you should note
that fact in your annotation. For longer articles, you may find that
it takes two to three paragraphs to properly annotate your citation.
No annotation, however, should take more than three (3)
paragraphs.
When you have chosen an article you wish to annotate, please email to the class list the author and title of your article so that we will all know which articles have been claimed.
When you have drafted and edited your annotations, please email them to me. I will then create a web page for them and link them to the list of articles on reserve. This assignment has two purposes. First, to provide some guidance to all students in the class on the content of articles they may use in their papers for this course. The second, is to provide you with an opportunity to dazzle me with your writing skills. These annotations will be graded for content and style in the same way that your papers will be.
Note, it is completely acceptable, perhaps even wise, to pick the topics you wish to write your papers on early in the semester, and chose articles to annotate that will advance the research you need to do for your papers.