1. How to Write an Annotated Bibliography
Purpose of Annotated Bibliography:
Two purposes:
Summarise research
Evaluate relevance/usefulness to your project

2. How to Write an Annotated Bibliography
Structure:
Cite bibliographical details: Author(s) / Date / Title / Publisher / Place of Publication.
Paraphrase author’s thesis
Summarise author’s main points
Evaluate relevance/usefulness of research for your project

3. How to Write an Annotated Bibliography
Language:
choose verbs carefully; e.g.,
argues
analyses
claims
considers
suggests

4. How to Write an Annotated Bibliography
Language:
use evaluative adverbs; e.g.,
Forcefully
Persuasively
Carefully
Rigorously
tentatively

5. How to Write an Annotated Bibliography
Example:
 Ashcroft, Blah & Blah (1989), The Empire Writes Back, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
In The Empire Writes Back, Ashcroft et al. argue that in the 1980s a new academic discipline emerged, a discipline they call “postcolonialism”. They argue that postcolonialism uses a wide range of methods to understand colonialism and its effects. This analysis is centred upon understanding how language is used in the colonial context by both coloniser and colonised. This work provides a very useful introduction to the main concerns and methods of postcolonialism.