Activity: Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliographies are summarized and/or assessed lists of the source material (books, journal articles, films, etc.) that has been used for research.

• Read more about annotated bibliographies and how to create them.
• Next, choose a topic and:
  • a source you have used in past research on that topic
  • a book you have recently read on that topic
  • a website you have visited on that topic
• Create an annotated bibliography entry for that source. Be sure to use the format that is most common in your discipline (MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.) If you are not sure what is most common, try using APA.  
  • Include the bibliographic information.
    • You can use a citation generator like Easy Bib Links to an external site. or ZoteroBib Links to an external site.
    • You can use a citation manager like EndNote Basic, Mendeley, or Zotero. If you are not familiar with citation management tools, we will look at them more closely in Day 3.
    • Or you can manually format your citation. OWL Purdue has a great citation guide. Links to an external site.
  • Summarize the arguments & points in paragraph form
  • If you would like to take it a step further:
    • Assess the source; is it useful? reliable? biased?
    • Reflect on the source; how does this source fit into your research?

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