<p>Annotated Bibliography (The Why and How of Writing) </p><p>As you may know, a bibliography is an alphabetical listing at the end of a written work of all the sources referenced by the author. Bibliographies, also called works cited, consist of any sources utilized, such as books, articles, interviews, Web sites, videos, and so forth. The standard bibliography for a book contains the following citation information: author(s), title, city, publisher, and year. The primary purpose of these citations is so the reader may access the sources utilized in the writing of the author's work. </p><p>An annotated bibliography, on the other hand, is simply a summary of descriptive and evaluative comments at the end of each citation. In other words, it lists all the specific citation information and also includes a few sentences about that source. For the purposes of this course, these comments are usually anywhere from 100 to 200 words, which equals a short paragraph. The annotation may include all, or some, of the following: </p><p> o Write a Works Cited Entry first! o The primary purpose of the work. o The authority/qualifications/reliability of the work's author. o The intended audience (College students? High school students? Professionals? Pleasure reading?). o The possible shortcomings or any biases in the work. o Any significant features of the work (illustrations, appendices, cross-references, graphs, charts, data). o Significance or relationship to other works on the research topic. o The student's own, brief, impression of the work. o Put citations in this work so you don’t have to find the article months later.</p><p>Brevity is the emphasis of an annotated bibliography. As you research, writing notes on each of your sources will help you to remember its value to your project and help you keep organized, making it easier in the end to put the project together. Remember, the primary purpose of the annotated bibliography is to inform the author, as well as the reader, of the relevance, the accuracy, and the quality of the sources cited. Steps to Writing an Annotated Bibliography </p><p>The steps for compiling and completing a comprehensive annotated bibliography are as follows: </p><p>1. Locate materials that may contain useful information and/or ideas for the topic (books, journals, organizations, individuals, et cetera). 2. Briefly review the gathered items, and then choose a variety of sources that are pertinent to the topic. 3. Critique those chosen sources by asking the following questions: a. What is the main point of this source? b. What are the author's qualifications to make him/her an authority on the topic? c. Who is this author speaking to? Who is the audience? d. What critique may there be of this source? Is the author too biased to be reliable? Do the author's own sources appear reliable? e. Does anything stand out in this source that may assist in the research: glossaries, graphs, et cetera? f. What is this source's relationship to other resources: supportive, irrelevant, another point of view? g. What do you think of the source? 4. Having narrowed the sources by the above process, proceed to writing the annotated bibliography through the following steps: </p><p> o The source's authority of the topic. o A brief description/summary of the source. o The possible relationship to other sources. o Any biases noted. o Any significant features noted. o The intended audience. o Your brief opinion of the source. </p><p>Through the tips and process outlined above, writing an annotated bibliography becomes a manageable step-by-step means of writing a comprehensive, useful, and effective listing of sources for a research project. Fear and procrastination of the project may be set aside, with confidence and success taking their place! Of equal importance, never forget the value of resources available through your course and instructor. </p><p>To help you prepare for that essay, research the topic you find interesting and plan to use for your essay. You can choose to use the same topic that you used for other essay assignments if you wish. You will need to find five-six different articles from the (peer-reviewed) for this assignment. Please remember that for this course you are only allowed to use articles from the Rio Salado database - no other sources are acceptable. As you develop your annotated bibliography, you may want to use note cards to record pertinent information from each source. Then, based on the information you gained in this lesson, develop annotated bibliographies that present information on each of your different sources. Make sure that all five annotated bibliographies contain: </p><p>Works Cited Entry here: - - - </p><p> The source's authority of the topic.  A brief description/summary of the source.  The possible relationship to other sources.  Any biases noted.  Any significant features noted.  The intended audience. </p><p> Your brief opinion of the source. Assignment:</p><p>Find the article we used for Grief from last semester:</p><p>Margaret Baier and Ruth Buechsel’s, “A Model to Help Bereaved Individuals Understand the Grief Process.”</p><p>Do a full annotation of the source – with all of the steps of a well-annotated bibliographical entry:</p><p> A full Works Cited entry.  The source's authority of the topic.  A brief description/summary of the source.  The possible relationship to other sources.  Any biases noted.  Any significant features noted.  The intended audience.  Your brief opinion of the source.</p><p>This must be typed and turned in tomorrow.</p>