Description
How your annotated Bibliography should look and what it should contain – 3 examples…
Article in a (printed )Journal (without annotation, listed in alphabetical order ):
Abercrombie, Thomas. ”Law versus love in Simon’s The War in the Round House.” Midwest Quarterly,
vol.56, no.4, Summer 2015, pp353-64.
Short Work from a Website (followed by its annotation): (This is how it should look on your AB.)
“Hostas: Plant Care and Collection of Varieties.” Plants Database, National Gardening Association,
https://garden.org/plants/group/hostas/. Accessed 17 Apr. 2017.
This website provides 7,348 photographs of hostas as well as descriptions, extensive information about planting and placement of hostas, which are shade-loving plants with showy leaves, as well as information about pests that devour them, and their on-going care Plants Database which contains this information is a web publication of the National Gardening Association, founded in 1971, which provides information on plants through educational programs, including kids programs, and offers 400,000 photographs of the 704,883 known planets. Its stated purpose is to help “home gardeners succeed, growing in health, knowledge, environmental awareness, and enthusiasm”. This site gives a thorough and unbiased sampling of the types of information available for amateur gardeners as well as experts. The membership of the National Gardening Association is drawn from around the globe, which helps to establish the credibility of the database and underline its appeal. This website offers an extensive range of ideas for planting and information, such as planting zones, necessary for an amateur to create a garden. The site provides a vehicle for the researcher writing this paper to demonstrate that landscape gardening does not have to rely on the expertise of professional (and costly) landscape designers to plan a garden. (220 words)
Same Annotation (broken down to show its parts)
“The Hostas: Plant Care and Collection of Varieties.” Plants Database, National Gardening
Association, https://garden.org/plants/group/hostas/. Accessed 17 Apr. 2017. (MLA citation)
This website provides 7,348 photographs of hostas as well as descriptions, extensive information about planting and placement of hostas, which are shade-loving plants with showy leaves, as well as information about pests that devour them, and their on-going care. (content)
The Plants Database which contains this information is a web publication of the National Gardening Association, founded in 1971, which provides information on plants through educational programs, including kids programs, and offers 400,000 photographs of the 704,883 known planets. (credibility)
Its stated purpose is to help “home gardeners succeed, growing in health, knowledge, environmental awareness, and enthusiasm”. This site gives a thorough and unbiased sampling of the types of information available for amateur gardeners as well as experts. The membership of the National Gardening Association is drawn from around the globe, which helps to establish the credibility of the database and underline its appeal. This website offers an extensive range of ideas for planting and information, such as planting zones, necessary for an amateur to create a garden. (bias of content-neutral)
The site provides a vehicle for the researcher writing this paper to demonstrate that landscape gardening does not have to rely on the expertise of professional (and costly) landscape designers to plant a garden. (how the material will be used in the essay) (220 words)
Interview citation (followed by an annotation):
Zeld, Albert. Personal interview. 17 Apr. 2017.
Annotation (broken down into its parts)
Zeld, Albert. Personal interview. 17 Apr. 2017. (MLA citation)
Albert Zeld is a reporter for the Guardian, a British newspaper. He served as a war reporter for the newspaper until 2015 but has become internationally famous for his gardening column, begun after a severe wound occasioning his retirement from the war zones of the world. The column has been syndicated in numerous media around the world and has led to several books and an on-line blog. (credibility)
This interview was conducted in a garden and included a running commentary on bees and bullets, with snide remarks (bias!)
about international figures who would have been much better leaders had they known something about gardening.(content)
His humorous insights into the state of affairs with hostas and hostilities in the Middle East will be quoted in the introduction and at salient points in the essay itself. (use in the essay)
(140 words)