How do i write an annotated bibliography?
An annotated bibliography is not a simple summary of each source text. Annotations are descriptive and critical, with the aim of informing the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources (books, journal articles, etc) cited. In general the annotation is to inform. Specific purposes may be to: • review the literature on a particular subject • illustrate the quality of your research • provide examples of sources available • describe other items on a topic that may be of interest to the reader • explore the subject for further research.
Here’s a helpful guide to writing an annotated bibliography from the Cornell library: http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/… Here’s another “how to” page from the UC Santa Cruz site: http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/annota… If you google “annotated bibliography” you’ll get lots of other sites with examples. You may want to specify which citation style (eg.
