My least favorite part about writing is bibliographies. I remember when I was in high school and whenever the teacher said that we needed to do a works cited page (bibliography page) I thought of nothing nice in my head. As with all things academically, it got worse in college. I was then required to write an ANNOTATED bibliography!? What the heck is that?!
Well, we all have a very good idea of what a bibliography is: author's last name, first name. Book title. etc... Most of us have been doing those since we started writing any sort of significant research paper, as it is the law to cite your source (don't want to get in trouble for plagiarism! That's just no fun...)
So, what is an annotated bibliography, and why do we use them? An annotated bibliography is simply a bibliography with additional description of the source. They are used to help assist the reader with whether the source is relevant, or even to assist the writer with what he wants to use.
Do not get an annotation confused with an abstract, as they are not the same thing. Let me rephrase that: abstracts are not annotations, but annotations can be abstracts. Does that make sense? If not, read on.
An abstract is a short statement summarizing the original work, not including an evaluation of the work. An annotation could summarize the original work or evaluate it. Annotations could also do both summarizing and evaluating.
If you would like to read any more about annotated bibliographies, please visit this site.
Written by:
Michael Wilson
4-26-12
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