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Based on your proposal, please submit a draft of an annotated bibliography by noon on Wednesday.

You’ve probably written bibliographies before, even if only in the form of a Works Cited list. An annotated bibliography is similar to a Works Cited list, insofar as it features an  MLA-style citation (Links to an external site.)  for each of the books, articles, or other texts that you list there. But it differs from a Works Cited list in two important ways.

1. You start writing it before you’ve begun to draft the paper/talk/presentation that you’re researching. Compiling an annotated bibliography is a part of the research process that precedes the composing process. It's part of the thinking that leads to composing.

2. Each entry contains considerably more information than just a citation (hence the word “annotated,” which means “notes added”). Each entry in an annotated bibliography contains, in addition to the MLA-style citation, three elements: (1) your summary of the source, (2) your assessment of its reliability, and (3) your notes about its potential value for your project.

The Purdue Owl has   a good explanation  (Links to an external site.)  of annotated bibliographies, along with   examples.  (Links to an external site.)   Follow the instructions and examples there to draft your entries for this assignment.

Where will you find your sources?

Of course, in order to write your annotated bibliography, you’ll first need to find some sources. Where will you find yours?

· Google (Links to an external site.)  : You’re allowed to use up to four “popular” (i.e., nonacademic) sources, using a search engine like Google to do your searching. But you may use  only  four sources found this way.

· University Libraries at DU Links to an external site.  : At least four of your sources must be scholarly in nature. You may use more than four scholarly sources, if they're useful to you, but there must be at least four. You'll find those scholarly sources though the DU   Libraries interface Links to an external site.  . 

For a brief tutorial on the distinction between scholarly and popular sources, check out this video: Popular and Scholarly Sources: The Information Cycle (Links to an external site.)

How will you conduct your search?

The first step in conducting a library search is to come up with a list of keywords. Check out the video below for a tutorial on how to develop keywords and use them to conduct a search. Once you’ve come up with your list of keywords, head on over to the   University Libraries Links to an external site.   search interface, and use your keywords to search on Compass. It's the main search bar, bordered in crimson. 

If you need help you can email or chat with a  research librarianLinks to an external site. . So, to recap, here’s what you need to do by Wednesday at noon:

· Watch the videos above, and then use your proposal to generate a list of keywords for researching your topic.

· Use those keywords to conduct a search on  Compass at University Libraries Links to an external site.  .

· Do a  Google (Links to an external site.)  search, too.  (Links to an external site. , too.

· Review the most potentially useful sources that you find, and then read and annotate at least four of them (using these   instructions  (Links to an external site.)  and these  examples  (Links to an external site.)  to guide you).

· Your annotated bibliography is to be written in   MLA style  (Links to an external site.) . Submit it here as a Word doc, using this title: Last name, first name - WRIT 1133 - Annotated Bibliography

***N.B.: This probably goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway: In order to be able to use your sources, you have to be able to access them. Very many of the sources you'll find through a DU library search are available online, but not all of them are: some sources are on the physical shelves. If this were an on-campus class, that wouldn't pose a problem: you could simply go over to the physical library and check out a physical copy of the book or article you need. However, because most of you are nowhere near campus right now, the only sources you should use for this project are the ones that you can access online. Thus only those online accessible sources should appear in your bibliography.

Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-17MbjEws4

Video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjJcrHV2NWI&t=2s

Explanation of annotated bibliography

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/common_writing_assignments/annotated_bibliographies/index.html

Examples

https://owl.purdue.edu/