What is an annotated bibliography and why is your teacher asking you to create one? Find out here.

1. Shetal's Bag: What's in it? (and why?)

2. 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?

3. What did we just do?

4. How is Shetal's Bag Annotated?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bardgabbard/3951445679/

5. 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?)

6. Today's Goal
Learn what an annotated
bibliography is, how to
make one, and why.

7. 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

8. 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?)

9. 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.

10. Bibliographic Citation:
How does this citation compare to the footnote form?
Author's name is Titles of large are italicized; smaller Publication information is not
inverted in the works or articles are in quotations. listed in parentheses as in
bibliography, unlike the (same in footnote) footnote.
footnote.
Footnote example:
Sylvia Barack Fishman, A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community (New York:
Free Press, 1993), 48-50.
The footnotes is punctuated mostly by commas, the bibliographic citation with periods.
Source Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Archival Resources on the History of Jewish Women in
America (Weisbard, 1997), UW Madison.

11. Sample Annotation
Assessment
of argument,
POV,
references
Summary of
main topics
Reflection
on
usefulness
Assessment
of author's
credentials
Source Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Archival Resources on the History of Jewish Women in
America (Weisbard, 1997), UW Madison.

12. Reflect:
How will this source be useful to YOU?
Credit: Jessica James, sample annotated bibliography

13. Annotated Bibliographies
History 12, Ryan Staude and Rob
Latimer, November 2012

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