Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography Checklist Title (related to your topic + “an annotated bibliography”, for example, “How

international students deal with homesickness: An annotated bibliography”)

Research question(s)

1-2 paragraph overview of your topic (what it is, why you chose it, what you have

learned about it so far from your sources, how you plan on answering your research

question, etc.)

Entries for all of the sources you have chosen for your lit review. Each entry should have

the following:

A full APA citation

An annotation that does the following:

Summarize the author’s main thesis/argument.

Explain how the author develops or supports the thesis/argument.

Describe the author’s purpose for writing, the intended audience, and

the relationship the author establishes with that audience.

Examine issues of audience and purpose (these are essential to writing

descriptions that analyze rather than summarize the content of a source,

which will be essential when we get to our literature reviews).

Explain relevance of source to your research purpose.

Entries should be organized in alphabetical order by the first item in the citation (usually

the first author’s last name)

AB should be formatted correctly:

Spaces between entries

Hanging indents for citations

Google Docs- Go to Format, Align and indent, indentation options, special, hanging, apply!

Andrade, M. S. (2006). International students in English-speaking universities: Adjustment factors. Journal of Research in International education, 5(2), 131-154.

Annotations indented and aligned with the rest of the citation

Look at the examples (in Week 7) of this formatting.