Annotated Bibliography

Bibliography: Research Question: Why do people who can write a Facebook Post, but struggle to write in an academic setting? Mallory, Anna L. “Educators using technology to improve writing: Students must learn that there 's a lot of difference between writing for classroom and for Facebook.” Tribune Content Agency LLC, 2009, March 14. Retrieved November, 1 2014 from ProQuest on-line database <http://www.library.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/r.cgi/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/464865971?accountid=10559> This article is about how students spend more time writing outside class on computers, and teachers should let the students know the differences between audiences and the basic mechanics of writing, such as indention and capitalization. I think this source is credible, because the author of this article, Anna Mallory, is a news writer for Tribune Content Aency. She writes about education, school and teenagers in most of her articles. Therefore, I do believe she is an expert in this topic. This article says that teachers should find a way to make students realize the difference in what’s posed on Facebook versus in class, know about the audience of their writings. I learned from this article the difference in styles of writing a Facebook post and an essay for school. This article is going to help answering my research question, because it tells me the difference between Facebook Post and school essays and it supports my other research, so I can use it in my research paper. I will use the conclusion of this article and the reasons behind it to answer my research question in my paper. Teng, Allen. “Writing Teachers Should Comment on Facebook Walls” National Council of Teachers of English, 2012, May. Retrieved November, 1 2014 from ProQuest on-line database <http://www.library.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/r.cgi/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/1011487032?accountid=10559> This article is about a teacher’s experience. How he thinks social medias like Facebook can help students to learn how to write and like to write. I think this source is credible, because the author of this article, Allen Teng, is a teacher in a suburban San Diego school district. He is wrting about his own story, so this is a primary source. Also it is published in National Council of Teachers of English, so it makes this article more reliable. The author believes the purposes of writing a Facebook Post and writing an essay for school are different. Facebook Post often are trying to share thoughts with a wide group of friends, and it provides freedom that they do not have to care about grammar and spellings in their writings. I learned from this article that the purposes of writing a Facebook Post and an academic essay are different, and reason why. This source supports my other resources, since they all suggest that there are difference in writing a Facebook Post and a formal essay. I will use this source to answer my research question, and connect it with other sources I found that support it. Skinner, David. “REVIEW --- Ain 't This Good English? --- Do slang and vulgarity belong in the dictionary? A look at America 's greatest language controversy” Dow Jones & Company Inc, 2012, October 27. Retrieved November, 1 2014 from ProQuest on-line database <http://www.library.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/r.cgi/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/1115343204?accountid=10559> This article is about the use of slang in America. I think this source is credible because the author Mr. Skinner is the author of the new book "The Story of Ain 't: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published." Therefore, he is an expert in this topic and he is telling a personal story about his nephew, so this would be considered as a primary source, which enhances it credibility. This source talks about the use of slang and how he found out his nephew was using slang in his Facebook post. I learned from this source that in Facebook post, you can use slang, but in a standard essay, you are not able to. This is where sets apart a Facebook post and a standard essay. I think this source supports my other sources I gathered. I can use the information in this article to tell the difference between a Facebook post and a standard essay in my research paper, and connect it to my other sources, eventually to draw a conclusion to my research question.