One Ocean Rubric AT 1 Bibliography

Learning Outcome
Characterise the interactive relationships between the physical and biological nature of the ocean and
humanity.
Assessment task #1 (25%)
Ocean research summary and annotated bibliography

Research peer-reviewed literature (including textbooks and reference books) on the issue
of marine plastics pollution . Coherently summarise your research and information gained in
relation to marine plastics pollution. Evaluate your information to identify the most
important issue(s) relating to the case study and the most important feature(s) of the
physical and biological nature of the ocean which affect this issue. Demonstrate your
capacity to identify peer-reviewed and relevant sources of information by compiling an
annotated bibliography in support of your summary document that synthesises the
information gained from your research in the context of information formally presented
in classes. This background assignment will be help you relate human interaction(s)
with the ocean to identify potential and actual pollution issues that arise.
One page per case study summary (500 words ± 50) in your own words. The word limit excludes
references.
Five references to support each case study. Each reference is to have an annotation (written in
your own words) that succinctly describes the paper and its importance in NO
MORE than 100 words.
References are to be peer-reviewed or from other objectively reliable sources (such as government
and university websites, textbooks) and to be fully and correctly detailed in the
reference list (the annotated bibliography).
AIMS FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT:
One Ocean Rubric AT 1 Bibliography
1. Students will summarise and collate information and then identify, with evidence, what is/are the most
important issue(s) relevant to the case studies and the most important biological and/or physical feature of
the ocean which influences the issue(s) identified. This should be the focus of the 500 word summary and
when you critically evaluate the source, then the connection to your knowledge of oceanography is one
thing that I will particularly assess.
2. Students will prepare a concise (note the word limit) annotated bibliography of the references used
in the summary.
CRITERIA
1. Access, collate and evaluate information on a human activity in the ocean and the physical and biological
nature of the ocean as it pertains to the specified human activity.
2. Synthesise the most important factors of the human activity and the most relevant features of the ocean
that affect the human activity in a concise, referenced summary that characterises the interactive
relationship of the ocean and the activity.

Name: Annotated Bibliography and Summar

HD (High
criteria distinction) DN (distinction) CR (Credit) PP (passing grade)

In this task you:

· Wrote the annotations and the summary synthesis in your words.

· Provided > 5 · Provided 5 sources · Provided 3 or 4

sources of relevant of relevant scholarly sources of relevant
scholarly literature, literature, including scholarly literature, ·
mostly of peer examples of peer including an example
reviewed primary reviewed primary of peer reviewed · Provided 3
literature, per case literature, per case primary literature, sources of relevant
study. study. per case study. scholarly literature.

· Consistently · Demonstrated that · Demonstrated that

1. Bibliography demonstrated that you could locate, you could locate,
Access, collate and you could locate, accurately describe accurately describe, · Located, accurately
evaluate accurately describe and evaluate and summarise with described, and
information on a and evaluate highly significant some critical summarised some
human activity in relevant knowledge, knowledge, data & evaluation relevant data &/or
the ocean and the data & information information on data & information information on ·L
physical and on specific topics. specific topics. on specific topics. specific topics. i
biological nature of
the ocean as it · Coherently & · Coherently &
pertains to the correctly summarised correctly summarised
specified human the most significant significant concept(s) · Correctly
activity. concept(s) &/or or fact(s) summarised relevant · Briefly ·
fact(s) in concise in annotations for all concept(s) or fact(s) summarised some
50% annotations for all references. in annotations. part of the sources.
 Name: Annotated Bibliography and Summar

HD (High
criteria distinction) DN (distinction) CR (Credit) PP (passing grade)

references.

· Correctly and fully

listed all references · Correctly and fully r
· Correctly and fully with only 1 or 2 listed all references co
listed all references minor formatting with only formatting · Listed all th
with no mistakes. mistakes. mistakes. references fully.

· Insightfully
synthesised · Synthesised · Collated relevant
significant, relevant relevant concepts, concepts, facts
concepts, facts and/or facts and/or examples and/or examples of · Described relevant
examples in the of some importance some importance in facts of lessor
literature in in the literature in the literature in importance in the
2. Critical your summary that your summary that your summarythat literature in
Evaluation (the clearly characterises characterises the describes the your summarythat in
summary) the interactive interactive interactive describes aspects of
Collate and discuss relationship of the relationship of the relationship of the the ocean and the
the most important ocean and the ocean and the ocean and the activity. May have
factors of the activity. activity. activity. errors of fact.
human activity and
the most relevant · Write with
features of the · Are crystal clear, · Are clear and · Sometimes write awkward sentence
ocean that affect concise & precise in concise in your with clarity, but have structures that ·
the human activity your writing, with writing, with only a grammatical or obscure meaning. m
in a concise, neither irrelevancies few minor errors or spelling mistakes or Basic grammar & t
referenced nor errors. irrelevancies. awkward sentences. some spelling errors.
summary.
·
· Correctly cited · Correctly cited f
most required some references in
50% · Correctly cited all required references in text. references in text. text.

Comment:
Advice on writing an annotated bibliography.

See Summarising for Understanding.

This short document explains why it is important to summarise for understanding (ie
that the writer understands the content of the material that they are summarising and
can thus pick out the most important and relevant issues). It then offers a method for
taking notes from a source and how to subsequently write the summary.
What is an annotated bibliography.
It lists the source fully and correctly.
It provides a concise summary or overview of the source, with a focus on the major
points or concepts addressed in the source.

It may also provide a critical evaluation of the source, which could comment on the
data or information used; or the logic of the source; or the style of writing (e.g. clear,
concise, aimed to general audience or experts) or all of these things.

What makes a good annotation?

A good annotation:
1. Is associated with an accurately listed reference.
2. Is concise.
3. Is clearly understandable. (Has been proof read and is logically sound).
4. Provides an overview in your own words of what the paper is about.
5. Answers the reader’s question: “Why should I read this paper?”
6. Gives a clear indication of the importance (or possibly otherwise) of the paper.
7. Will state if a reference is a review paper (that is, it is secondary not primary literature) or not (and may
include the number of papers reviewed).
8. May comment on the style of a paper (e.g. “assumes a good background in economics”. “Is a technical
paper” etc).
9. Is NOT a summary of the paper. This makes it too long and likely too complex to easily answer the
question “why should I read this paper?”
10. Does not copy sentences from the paper, because this almost certainly removes context thereby reducing
understanding.
When I have graded annotated bibliographies in previous deliveries of other classes, I
identified some faults that were commonly seen in the class’s bibliographies and
provided them to the class as feedback. Here are the faults that I identified. Use the list
to see what you should AVOID doing.
Specific comments indicating faults in the
bibliography:
1. References are not in alphabetical order
2. References are incomplete.
3. References have incorrect information (e.g. the volume of publication).
4. Formatting of references is not correct.
5. Annotations do not describe the paper.
6. Annotations contain incorrect information.
7. Annotations do not highlight the most significant point.
8. Annotations do not evaluate the paper.
9. Annotations are insufficiently specific (e.g. states: “a relationship was demonstrated”, without saying
what the relationship was.)
10. Annotations are too long.
11. Annotations are direct citations. (To explain: if you copy a sentence directly out of the source, even if you
cite it correctly, then it is highly likely that it will sit badly in the logic and context of the rest of your
annotation. I have never seen a good annotation that contains a direct quote.)
12. Annotations show poor syntax or grammar (and become difficult to understand).
13. Annotation does not relate to the reference.
Further advice on annotated bibliographies.
Please note that these links suggest annotations may be up to 500 words. However, I
think that this may make a reader less likely to actually read the annotation (if there
are 10 annotated references with 500-word annotations, that is 5,000 words. You’d
want to be seriously interested to read that amount of material). I think much shorter
annotations are more useful because they are more likely to be read. This is why I have
limited your maximum words per annotation to 100 words (I will strictly check this).
Writing a shorter annotation may be more difficult than a longer one because every
word must count to the meaning that you want to convey. Delete any extraneous
words. For example, the urls below suggest starting the annotation with: “This paper
describes ….etc”. I would delete the first two words and start with the verb: “Describes
….. etc.” Given that the annotation is written directly below the reference, it is obvious
which paper it is referring to