Annotated Bibliographies What are they? (and by the way, how do I correctly write a citation?)

What’s a Citation? Citation: Giving credit to your source

Why do I have to Cite anything?  When you borrow or use something of someone else’s you need to ask permission (copyrighted) or at least give credit to them.  So, when you use something in your paper, project, powerpoint, etc., you need to say from where and whom you got it…it’s only fair, right?  Also, if your audience wants to find out more information, they can use your citation to find the original source: to evaluate it or just find out more about it….or maybe even other works by the same source.

What’s that like?  It’s like hearing a little bit of a song…and wanting to know who wrote it and sings it…and wanting to hear the whole thing…and maybe decide if you really like it or not…and if you do like it, wanting to know where to get it by that same performer, in that same version - To do all that, you need information-you need a citation…

How to cite a book: One author: Last Name, First Name. Title. City Published: Publisher, date published. Example: Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita. New York: Putnam, 1955.

What if there are two (or more) authors? Two authors: Cross, Susan, and Christine Hoffman. Bruce Nauman: Theaters of Experience. New York: Guggenheim Museum; London: Thames & Hudson, Three authors: Lowi, Theodore, Benjamin Ginsberg, and Steve Jackson. Analyzing American Government: American Government, Freedom and Power. 3rd ed. New York: Norton, 1994.

How to cite from an anthology, like your text book: Journal/Anthology article, one author: Author’s last name, first name. “Title of story or poem in anthology.” Name of anthology (date): page numbers. Example: Shefter, Martin. "Institutional Conflict over Presidential Appointments: The Case of Clarence Thomas." PS: Political Science & Politics 25.4 (1992):

How to cite from the Internet: There are multiple formats for citing online material, depending on the type of website or database that it came from. You can use to cite internet sources, or use the following website: Both of these websites will be on my blog soon

Works of Literature to Cite: Let’s work together:  Book: A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah  Anthology: “Lay of the Werewolf” by Marie de France (pg 612)  Our “Shark” article: know the database, title, author, and Cobb Virtual Library (go from small to big).

Let’s Practice (your turn): On your desk, you have a book, a text book, and your article from Friday. You need to complete a citation for each on your notebook paper. The citations should go in ABC order by the authors’ last names, and each one should have a hanging indent. An example Works Cited page is on your handout.

WHAT IS AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY? An annotated bibliography is a list (in ABC order) of citations to books, articles, and documents you have researched for a paper or project. Each citation is followed by a brief (usually about 150 words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph, called the annotation. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited.

Say it again? An annotated bibliography is more than just a list of citations. On an annotated bibliography, after each citation is a paragraph (150 words or so) that explains what each citation is about- (Think of a summary). We call this an annotation. See the example in your handout.

Assignment: You will now complete an abstract, which is the citation plus the annotation, for the article you obtained earlier. It needs to have:  1. The correct citation, with a hanging indent  2. Then write a 150 word annotation- (mainly a summary). (If your article was super short, you may need to find another one.)

Models:  H:\Annotated Bib Example.docx H:\Annotated Bib Example.docx  H:\Annotated Bib Example2.docx H:\Annotated Bib Example2.docx

You can do it!