Annotated Bibliographies
Steps to Writing your AB
- Find 3 Articles using the Google Folders or the books in class
- Read and Annotate the articles THOROUGHLY
- Create the Works Cited Entry for each article
- Write an analysis of each article - NOT A SUMMARY
- PROOFREAD
Annotated Bibliography Helpful Hints
3 Literary Criticisms (not something written by a bozo)
150 word analysis
ALPHABETICAL ORDER by Author's last name
NOT SUMMARIES (see below)
Formal Language - No first person - No contractions
Include at least 2 short quote from the article (add the page number)
www.easybib.com and citationmachine.net are your friends
The OWL at Purdue is your other friend
To avoid summaries use sentence stems like these:
Smith effectively brings contextual history into her argument…
Smith’s formal tone and inflated language support her point…
Smith makes an accurate assertion…
While Smith’s conclusion is valid…
Smith strengthens his argument with…
Smith correctly argues…
The effective introduction to her proposal
Links:
University of Maryland University College "How to write an AB"