Annotated Bibliography

2020/11/23 Sample Annotated Bibliography Entry: Fal20 ENGL 001A #74618 READING AND COMPOSITION-Online

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Sample Annotated Bibliography Entry Here is an example of an Annotated Bibliography entry for a research paper on the novel The Kite Runner:

Noor, Ronny. "Review of The Kite Runner." World Literature Today 78.3-4 (2004): 148. Rpt. in

Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 254. Detroit: Gale, 2008. Literature Resource

Center. Web. 29 Mar. 2010.

In her article, Ronny Noor provides a quick overview of The Kite Runner’s plot, and then

discusses its strengths and weaknesses as a novel. Noor argues that the novel is excellent

“only if we consider it a novel of sin and redemption” (148). In terms of the history of

Afghanistan, she claims that the book provides a “selective, simplistic, even simple-minded

picture” (148) of what led to the Soviet invasion and the subsequent rise of the Taliban.

This source will be useful to as background information to my tentative argument that

Hosseini presents the history of the Taliban inaccurately in The Kite Runner. I will need

more specific sources to really flesh this argument out, but this article provides a good

starting point for my research on the Taliban, especially since the source mentions the role

of the CIA and President Carter’s administration in the Taliban’s rise to power.

Note that this is one entry and you will be turning in three entries for your Annotated Bibliography assignment. You will then be adding two additional sources so that your research paper has a total of at least five resources.