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What is an annotated bibliography and why is your teacher asking you to create one? Find out here.
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Shetal is going on a date to a club.
If she can take only
3 items in her clutch, what should she take and why?
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Shetal is going on a date to a club.
... Summarize (What is in her purse?) ... Assess (How useful will these items be on the date?) ... Reflect (How helpful are the items? Which will be most essential to the success of her date?)
Today's Goal Learn what an annotated bibliography is, how to make one, and why.
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Annotated Bibliography
Overview: a list of sources with a short explanation of the source and how it will be useful to you. Length of annotation: About 150 words Purpose: Inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy and quality of the sources -- source: Olin and Uris Libraries, "How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography, http://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/ref/research/skill28.htm
Annotations Should...
... Summarize (topics, main arguments)
... Assess (point of view, authority, accuracy, references, currency) ... Reflect (How helpful is this source for you? How will you use it to shape your argument?)
Why Bother? Creating an annotated bibliography... ... forces you to
examine your sources critically. ... will allow you to begin thinking of
how to structure your argument. ... helps you
remember what is in each source.
Bibliographic Citation: How does this citation compare to the footnote form?
Source Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Archival Resources on the History of Jewish Women in America (Weisbard, 1997), UW Madison.
Author's name is inverted in the bibliography, unlike the footnote.
Titles of large are italicized; smaller works or articles are in quotations. (same in footnote)
Footnote example: Sylvia Barack Fishman, A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community (New York: Free Press, 1993), 48-50.
Publication information is not listed in parentheses as in footnote.
The footnotes is punctuated mostly by commas, the bibliographic citation with periods.
Sample Annotation
Source Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Archival Resources on the History of Jewish Women in America (Weisbard, 1997), UW Madison.
Assessment of argument, POV, references
Summary of main topics
Assessment of author's credentials
Reflection on usefulness
Reflect: How will this source be useful to YOU?
Credit: Jessica James, sample annotated bibliography
Annotated Bibliographies
History 12, Ryan Staude and Rob Latimer, November 2012
