Day 29 (Oct 31) - Introduction to Annotated Bibliography

You will be able to...

1. understand the purpose of Annotated Bibliography
2. identify the key components of an Annotated Bibliography
3. write an Annotated Bibliography that includes all the key components

Quick Review

Do you still remember how to tell if a source is reliable or not? What are the criteria we need to use to make the decision?
Check it out here: Source Reliability Review

Why Annotated Bibliography?

You must have been wondering why we need to learn and use Annotated Bibliography. What do you think?

Please pull out one of the sources you have found so far for your IRP. If you have not got any source yet (work harder!!!), find any academic journal or scholarly article.

Go to the reference page and count how many sources are listed there. While you do the counting, you need to stand up.

Do you think you can manage to keep track of so many sources without some kind of magic? Of course not!!! The magic trick is ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Without Annotated Bibliography, your life will be like this

With Annotated Bibliography, you life will be like this

Annotated Bibliography Analysis

Here are two samples of Annotated Bibliography. Group 1 will analyze AB1, and Group 2 will analyze AB2. When you analyze, you will have to fill out this chart. After you finish, please stand up and find a person from the other group to share the results of your analysis.

Your Turn

Okay, now you have learned the key components of the Annotated Bibliography, and it is your turn to create one. Use one of the sources you have found for your IRP (again, if you have not found any source yet, you can use any scholarly article or journal), and create one following the format.

Homework

This homework assignment is worth 15% of your final grade. What you have to do is to use what we have learned today, and create 5 Annotated Bibliography. Like the Pre-research Portfolio, you will find it very helpful when you get to the final stage of writing your IRP.