So I have to do an annotated bibliography?

What exactly is that?And where do I start?

What is a bibliography?•An organised list of resources.

What is an annotated bibliography?•Means a bibliography with notes

An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents. Each citation is followed by a brief (usually about 150 words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph, the annotation. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited.

Your entries may include…• Book with 1 author• Book with 2 or more authors• Anthology• Monthly or quarterly magazine article• Newspaper article• Film, filmstrip, videotape• Anonymous work or article• TV or radio broadcast

Or these:

• Multivolume work• Weekly magazine article• Website• CD Rom or electronic journal• Scholarly journal• Translated article• Government document• interview

What does an annotated bibliography normally include?

•Annotated bibliographies normally consist of an evaluation of the resource, considering the following aspects:

•AUTHORITY- Who wrote it? What are their credentials? (i.e. PhD, Professor, unqualified writer)

•AUDIENCE - Who are the intended audience – eg. Researchers? Students? Consumers?

What does an annotated bibliography normally include? Continued

•USEFULNESS - How useful is it to your paper? eg. Is it a research article? Is it too scientific for your needs? Is it too general?

•COMPARISON - Is it similar to another work or in contrast to another work/author?

•CONCLUSIONS - Have the author(s) made any conclusions? What methods were used for evaluation?

•LIMITATIONS - Are there any limitations in the work/methods/conclusions?

ANNOTATIONS VS. ABSTRACTS

Abstracts are the purely descriptive summaries often found at the beginning of scholarly journal articles or in periodical indexes. Annotations are descriptive and critical; they expose the author's point of view, clarity and appropriateness of expression, and authority.

Your work cited page, or bibliography, should look like this:

The basic entry: A book by a single author• Pattern:• [Author last name] [Author first name initial] [Year], [Title of

Work], [Publisher], [Location].

Fukuyama, Francis. Our Post human Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. New York: Farrar.

• Online Book Example:• Nugent, P, & Vitale, B 2008, 'Chapter 11: Practice Questions

with Answers and Rationales', Test Success: Test-Taking Techniques for Beginning Nursing Students (5th Edition) pp. 159-294 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: F.A. Davis Company CINAHL Plus with Full Text, EBSCOhost, viewed 6 December 2010.

But for each source:

There is a specific way to cite it ------- and there are examples of each in your diary p107-109

A Book by Two or More Authors:Eggins, Suzanne, and Diane Slade. 1997. Analysing

Casual Conversation. London: Cassell.

Marquart, James W., Sheldon Ekland Olson, and Jonathan R. Sorensen. 1994. The Rope, the Chair, and the Needle: Capital Punishment in Texas. Austin: U of Texas P.

If there are more than 3 authors, you may name only the first and add et al. (and others) Quirk, Randolph, et al. 1985. A Comprehensive Grammar of the

English Language. London: Longman.

Journal or Magazine Article

• Pattern:• [Author last name], [Author first initial] [Year], ‘[Title of

article]’, [Journal Name], [Volume number], [issue number], pp. [page number start]-[end], [URL or Database Name], [EBSCOhost], viewed [day month year].

• Example:• Maynard, W 1999 'Thoreau's House at Walden', Art Bulletin,

81, 2, pp. 303, Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost, viiewed 6 December 2010

Journal or Magazine Article w/No Author• Pattern:• ‘[Title of article]’ [Year], [Journal Name], [Volume number],

[issue number], pp. [page number start]-end], [URL or Database Name], [EBSCOhost], viewed [day month year].

• Example:• 'Royal Dogfight' 2004, People, 61, 1, p. 28, Academic Search

Premier, EBSCOhost, viewed 6 December 2010.

• Online Newspaper Article• Pattern:• [Author last name], [Author first initial] [Year], ‘[Title of article]’

[Newspaper Name], [Day month of publication], [URL or Database Name], [EBSCOhost], viewed [day month year].

• Example:• Lacey, M 2007, 'A Communist He Was, but Today, Che Sells', New

York Times, 9 October, Newspaper Source Select, EBSCOhost, viewed 6 December 2010.

• Online Newspaper Article w/No Author• Pattern:• ‘[Title of article]’ [Year], [Newspaper Name], [Day month of

publication], [URL or Database Name], [EBSCOhost], viewed [day month year].

• Example:• 'Metro Briefing | Connecticut: Hartford: Domestic Violence

Proposal', 2005, New York Times, 10 January, Newspaper Source Select, EBSCOhost, viewed 6 December 2010.

Electronic Information:

• Follow the recommendations for citing information from books• If there is no author, begin with the title of the

document• The title of the site is in italics and follows the

title of the article.• Follow with: date of electronic publication, date

of print publication, name of sponsoring institution, URL• When the site was accessed (accessed August 5,

2012)

Website example:• Pattern:• [Website Page Name] [Year]. [Website Organization],

[Website Organization Location], viewed [Date Month Year], <[URL]>.

• Example:• Tommy Bolin Archives 2010. The Official Tommy Bolin

Archives, USA, viewed 9 December 2010, http://www.tbolin.com/index.html.

An entry for your annotated bibliography will look like this:

Number of the reference

Explanatory paragraph. The annotations for each source are written in paragraph form. They must be written using appropriate language, tone and sentence structure.

1. Smith, J. 2007. The Big Book of Microbiology. London: Penguin. John Smith describes the main pandemics which have affected the world in the last decade and identifies the responsible pathogens. Smith is a Professor of Microbiology and thus provides reliable information about the topic which is confirmed in other books. His book was published in 2007 so the information is still current. This book was useful for providing information about the pathogen responsible for avian influenza and the symptoms.

Bibliographic information. This must include title, author, publisher and date published.

Example Annotated Bibliography

• First, locate and record citations to books, periodicals, and documents that may contain useful information and ideas on your topic. Briefly examine and review the actual items. Then choose those works that provide a variety of perspectives on your topic.

• Cite the book, article, or document using the appropriate style.

How to get going…

Create Notes on each.

A colour coded example…

Your notes should consider:

Using your notes…

• Write a concise annotation that summarizes the central theme and scope of the book or article. Include one or more sentences that :• (a) evaluate the authority or background of the

author, • (b) comment on the intended audience, • (c) compare or contrast this work with another

you have cited, or • (d) explain how this work illuminates your

bibliography topic.

Trevor, CO, Lansford, B & Black, JW 2004, ‘Employee turnover and job performance: monitoring the influences of salary growth and promotion’, Journal of Armchair Psychology, vol.113, no.1, pp56-64.In this article Trevor et al. review the influences of pay and job opportunities in respect to job performance, turnover rates and employee motivation. The authors use data gained through organisational surveys of blue-chip companies in Vancouver, Canada to try to identify the main causes of employee turnover and whether it is linked to salary growth. Their research focuses on assessing a range of pay structures such as pay for performance and organisational reward schemes. The article is useful to my research topic, as Trevor et al. suggest that there are numerous reasons for employee turnover and variances in employee motivation and performance.The main limitation of the article is that the survey sample was restricted to mid-level management, thus the authors indicate that further, more extensive, research needs to be undertaken to develop a more in-depth understanding of employee turnover and job performance. This article will not form the basis of my research; however it will be useful supplementary information for my research on pay structures.

Example…

Where to search…• You have 3 minutes to quickly search for information on the

topic

•“Gotu Kola improves memory”

• After 3 minutes we will discuss what information was found, what sites, what type of article etc.

Finding good sources…• Using Google is not the best way to go about searching for

good quality articles by qualified and respected academics.

• The best sources are hidden in databases so you have to know where to find the databases for your subject.

• Some freely available database searches are :• Google Scholar and Microsoft’s Academic Search• Subscription databases have a wider selection and often the

full text of the source rather than just the citation or abstract.• Examples …• QuestiaSchool.com, The State Library’s OneSearch which

searches across many subscription databases.

Loginhttp://www.questiaschool.com/ •Login with : EQ Email address@eq.edu.au•Password : cleveland

Facts on File•http://online.infobaselearning.com/Direct.aspx?aid=107722&pid=WE00•Access Credentials: - In school auto login link

One Search, the library catalogue•Search all of State Library's collections plus millions of journal articles and ebooks at the same time. Just enter your words in the search box.•Not all eresources are available in One Search. • http://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/

Boolean Terms

And Or Not

Each result contains all search terms.

Each result contains at least one search term.

Results do not contain the specified terms.

The search heart and lung finds items that contain both heart and lung.

The search heart or lung finds items that contain either heart or items that contain lung.

The search heart not lung finds items that contain heart but do not contain lung.

The following table illustrates the operation of Boolean terms:

If there are nested parentheses, the search engine processes the innermost parenthetical expression first, then the next, and so on until the entire query has been interpreted. For example, ((mouse OR rat) AND trap) OR mousetrap

What to record

For books, record:•The author’s or editor’s name (or names) •The year the book was published •The title of the book •If it is an edition other than the first •The city the book was published in •The name of the publisher

What to record

For journal articles record: •The author’s name or names •The year in which the journal was published •The title of the article •The title of the journal •The page number/s of the article in the journal •As much other information as you can find about the journal, for example the volume and issue numbers

What to record

For electronic resources, try to collect the information on the left if it is available, but also record:•The date you accessed the source •The electronic address or email •The type of electronic resource (email, discussion forum, WWW page, etc)

•In addition to these details, when you are taking notes, if you copy direct quotations or if you put the author’s ideas in your own words, write down the page numbers you got the information from.

When to Cite• Quote directly: use another person’s ideas in their words• Paraphrase: present another person’s ideas in your

words• Summarise: express another person’s ideas in fewer

words• Use ideas, theories, facts, experiments, case studies,

from a source• Adopt another person’s research method, survey or

experiment design• Use statistics, tables, diagrams etc. — not just words!

How to cite examples• When using quotations in your text observe the following

examples:

He stated, “The relative importance of the systems may nevertheless remain in approximately the same proportion” (Gardner, 1973, p. 41)

Smith (1991) found that “... there is no evidence that chimpanzees can produce a drawing and discern the object represented in it ...” (p. 84)

Citing when there is no authorWhen a source has no author, cite the first two or three words of the title followed by the year. For example:

... in the recent book (Encyclopaedia of psychology, 1991, p. 62)...

... in this article (“Individual differences,” 1993, p. 12) ...

Web pages where no author is given:•Alcohol Concern (“Call to stop”, 2007) have proposed various policies to …

The key point is that your in-text reference matches the start of the reference in your reference list/bibliography.

• Locate 3-5 sources on your topic. Write Harvard Cited style entry for each source.• Look for any biographical info./credentials you can find

about the author and note them. • Scan the source and note the content. Look at a few

specific passages that catch your eye—summarize them. Do you detect any bias? Is the source written for a particular audience (scholars, professionals in the field, general adult audience, educators, social workers, parents, teenagers, the poor, religious etc…)? • Write your annotated bibliography from your notes.

Your Mission Today:

Top Referencing Tips• Your reference should help your reader to recover your

source easily. If it cannot be found again, don’t reference it.• Be consistent with layout and punctuation.• Only list references you have read yourself.• Do not list sources that are mentioned in the works you have

seen when compiling your reference list.• There will not be guidance for every type or variation of a

source.• Use the nearest style you can find to fit the source.• If in doubt, do what your teacher says, not what the library

says or what the referencing system says. Only teachers give and take away marks.