The Annotated Bib

• Objective 3 "Create an annotated bibliography as a result of a comprehensive literature search."
• You are required to produce an Annotated Bibliography for the course project.
• So what is an annotated bib?
  • A collection of sources along with a brief evaluation of these sources.
  • See Annotated Bibliographies at the Purdue Online Writing Lab (https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/common_writing_assignments/annotated_bibliographies/index.html)
• What?
  • This is not the list of works cited or references at the end of your paper.
  • This is a result of a literature search.
  • But it also includes evaluation information.
• Booth et al say

  • Especially valuable at early stages of research are bibliographic works, man of which provide abstracts summarizing significant articles ore books on a topic. Look, especially, for annotated bibliographies or annual literature reviews that sum up recent books or articles; these offer the most promising leads for your research

  • For a research project, an annotated bibliography offers a bird's-eye view of a range of sources and the roles they might play in your paper."

    (102-103)
  • This is a stage of a research project.
  • It helps you to determine the sources.
  • It demonstrates, to some extent, the completeness of your research.
• You are responsible for
  • Adding a bibliography to every research paper you write.
  • Creating an annotated bibliography.
  • These are two different, but related tasks.
• So what do you do?
  • Take a look a the rubric for this part.
    • Applicable sources
    • Valid sources
    • Annotations that
      • Accurately describe the material.
    • Evaluations
      • Explain why the source was selected.
      • Describe the value of the source.
  • So is the annotation a abstract?
• For me,
  • This is a living document.
  • As you find sources, add them with an annotation of not yet processed.
  • As you read them, add an annotation.
  • As you reference them, improve your annotation.
• If you have an ongoing research project, this is a document you could hand to a new partner to get them up to speed.
• Tools for an annotated bib
  • I use latex
    • This is an ancient typesetting system.
    • Or a markup language for documents.
    • The package I use.
    • Look here for the files to produce this.
  • You could do it in word, but it looks like a pain.
  • I am sure that there are other automated tools for this.
• Show how to use the bib tool in word.
• We use either IEEE or an ACM conference style for bibs.
  • There aer other bib tools
  • Refworks
  • Endnote