Annotated Bibliography

Purpose: What is the author’s purpose for writing this? What is the authorial intent, or what the writer intended for this piece of writing to accomplish?

Audience: Who is the intended audience? What is it about the language or the way the argument is presented that leads you to this conclusion?

Arrangement: How is this piece of writing structured? In other words, what order are the parts of an argument in?

Evidence: What evidence is used to support the secondary claims in this piece of writing?

Implications: What are the future implications of this stance? In other words, what are the underlying implications? What is not necessarily said outright, but we are led to believe? What rhetorical devices are used to do this?

Word Choice: What interesting word choices have been made in this piece of writing? Why are they unique to this argument?