WRITING AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY From Writing Across the Curriculum by Sandra Nagy

Why write annotated bibliographies? You can analyze what the source contains (analysis). You can find ways to make best use of this information in your thesis (organization). You can learn how to rework your topic as a "work" paper (purpose). Rules to follow: Get one source at a time. Please answer the question with complete sentences. The first three questions: What is the main or most important idea for this source? What is the author trying to do (purpose)? Who do you think is the author's target audience? Combine answers: eg Smith is focused on lowering the level of illiteracy rates among school-aged children, classifying socioeconomic levels, ethnic groups, parents' educational background. For the average audience, Smith tried to convince his reader that most of the children did not work well at school because parents did not work with them in family learning programs. The following two questions: Do not emphasize which part of the topic it emphasizes? What kind of assumptions do the authors make about topics and audiences? Example: The author emphasizes that parents need to deeply engage in the education of their children, and that these parents have time, expertise, and lewdness. The last three questions: Do you have biased or inclined sources of information? Does the idea being discussed clearly have a leak? Does the evidence clearly support the author's argument? Last word: eg Smith's data supports his position, but his solution seems to be too simple and very general. He ignores the busy schedule and the attitudes and expectations of some parents, so his suggestion of "just doing" seems unlikely to change the situation.

Additional Tip: Write down the short paragraph. Please combine the answers as much as possible. In the reference literature there are 5 to 8 sentences which accurately explained the information and ideas of each source.

Each document has an analysis using the MLA type Works Cited page. Last point: Use alphabetical order. Doubles all spaces. Please put two double spaces between sources

This is "indifferent privilege" of "legality", but it does not actually define her meaning.

Secularism means that the sentence represents a ruling body.

Emphasizing "inner self diversity", it indicates that these tensions must be "conf"

Provide a clear structure including three major rhetoric units "return to father" and "Roman"

Robert L. Turner "Identity: Portrait of a Black Woman by Adrian Kennedy"

American culture helps confuse her identity with her "history and literary past"

Jin Man, Toby Silverman. "In front of my enemies": "One Night" by Adrian Kennedy

There are two forms of annotated bibliography. One is written in sentences, the other emphasizes simplicity, words are written in dots instead of sentences. There is no example using this latter style in this lecture, but an example of point form (or telecommunication style) is as follows. "The historical perspective of the research in this area of ​​the last century, which includes a brief explanation of important legislation" is a better style. The selected topic is introduced before a long annotated bibliography and explains the reasons for the selection of bibliographic entries and exclusion of other entries and the target period. In annotated long references, entries are often numbered (see examples A and B), but this is rare in student papers.

Instead of writing formal research papers, you may be asked to create annotated bibliographies from your professor. 1) to show that you understand the literature supporting your research questions, 2) to prove that the relevant literature can be reviewed effectively and thoroughly, 3) to do in classmates Prove that you share resources among them so that everyone in the group can gain a comprehensive understanding of important research on specific topics. Annotated bibliography as a more detailed review of the literature, not the literature commonly used in research papers