Why create an annotated bibliography?
• You can keep track of resources as you gather them. • Creating annotations gives you time to reflect on content • Annotations can help you make decisions on which items to use in your paper or presentation. • If you have a list of items with annotations, you can analyze your resources by the numbers and types of citations. For example: Do you have items in different formats? Ex: book, journal, newspaper, video, blog, interview… Do you have items representing different points of view? Do you have items from the popular press and scholarly academic sources? Do you have items from different disciplines? • You can share selected this list of resources with a committee or a group. • Peer-review opportunities: Someone else can review sources before you use them. • You can re-evaluate your resources before using in final paper and/or presentation. • Consulting annotations as you write provides a bit of distance from the original resource wording, making it easier to phrase ideas in your o
