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- What is an Annotated Bibliography?
- It's a list of sources, with brief notes about each source.
- What will your Annotated Bibliography cover?
- Your assignment and the topic you choose will determine this.
Let's use a literary example:
- Should your Annotated Bibliography be limited to sources of literary criticism, reviews?
- Should it include the author's biography and list of works?
- A general overview of the author's writing?
- The book's impact on the genre or society?
- Should only scholarly sources be used, or should popular accounts be included?
Be sure you know the answers to these questions before you begin.
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- How do you examine a source, for possible inclusion in your Annotated Bibliography?
- What does it cover? Examine the Table of Contents and the Index, or the Site Map.
- Skim the material. You need not (necessarily) read the source.
- Check for reading level.
- Check for references, usually at the end of the source. If references or certain authors are mentioned in more than one source, you may want to include them in your Annotated Bibliography. This is especially true of references in the Encyclopedia Britannica.
- What kind of information could you include in an Annotated Bibliography?
- The source's format. Is it a book? article? web site?
- A description of the content
- Description of the usefulness of the source
- The source's purpose. What is it trying to do?
- Organization of the information
- Coverage. Is it comprehensive? Does it summarize?
- Intended audience. Is if for a general reader? student?
- Reliability of the author and/or publisher
- Currency of the information
- Any special features
- Your reaction to the source
- Comparison to other sources on the subject
- How can you create an excellent Annotated Bibliography?
- Search for the best sources on your topic.
- Cover various aspects of your topic, thereby creating a complete picture of your topic.
- Use a variety of sources, e.g., primary documents, books, magazines, newspapers, Internet sites.
- Explain clearly how this source relates to your topic.
- How do you format an Annotated Bibliography?
- List your sources using
- List sources alphabetically, by last name of author, or by title, if there is no author.
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