Los Angeles Pierce College The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock Annotated Bibliography

An annotated bibliography is a list of articles, books, or other sources on your topic with a brief description of each item beneath its citation. Annotated bibliographies are useful to scholars who are researching a topic because the researcher has already read each work and evaluated it. Scholars use them to learn about the history of scholarship on a topic or to follow a specific thread of research. Sometimes the entries are grouped into subtopics as well.

There are a few different types of annotations, including descriptive annotations, which simply summarize the work, and critical annotations, which evaluate the work. Certain important information about the source should be included in an annotation, including a little about the author’s credentials (if you can find it), the purpose and audience of the article, and how the argument is supported. It is also useful to compare the article with others on the topic and discuss how it may contribute to the wider discussion. The Pierce Library has a guide to writing annotations here.

Another name for the annotation is a rhetorical precis. See this handout for a sentence by sentence guide to writing an annotation, and even a few templates!

See the handout below for detailed instructions for this assignment.

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY-rev2020.docx

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English 102: Rubric for Annotated Bibliography (1)