Fall 2005: ENC 1102: Argument & Persuasion: Invoking the Professional Voice
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY INFORMATION
For the Annotated Bibliography, due Tuesday, you will need a minimum of six citations. Please use MLA format for both the heading and the citation. Feel free to use the Citation Machine. Each entry should begin with the MLA citation folowed by a brief, descriptive and evaluative summary paragraph.
There are a few very good sources on the Internet (done by leading universities) for preparing an annotative bibliography. These are the three I would recommend:
University of California at Santa Cruz:
http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/annotated.html
Cornell:
http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill28.htm#top
CalPoly State Univ:
http://www.lib.calpoly.edu/research/guides/bibliography.html
These sites talk all about the different facets of Annotated bibliographies. UCSC & Cornell both start out by defining an annotative bibliography. UCSC & CalPoly go over the purpose of an annotative bibliography as well as giving a clear list of what an annotative bibliography is supposed to include. Cornell & CalPolyalso discuss the differences between an abstract and an annotation.
All of the sites give examples of an annotated bibliography. In regards to examples from a scholarly work, Cornell's first example (the one called "Non family living and the erosion of traditional Family orientations among young adults.") and CalPoly's second example (on the "golden egg") seem to be good ones. You can look at these sites and choose whatever you think is appropriate for your class(es). The Good thing about these online sources is that students will have easy access to them.
If these sites are not satisfactory, or you want examples in print, please refer to the following text:
20th Century Bibliography and Textual Criticism: An
Annotated Bibliography.
Call # Z1002.B28 2000
The authors are William Baker & Kenneth Womack. It
has lots of examples of annotated bibliographies to choose
from and even breaks them down by different types of
bibliographies (e.g. general, analytical, descriptive, etc.).