This PPT for Ms. Compton's ENG 101 class will walk you through how to complete an Annotated Bibliography.

1. All About
Annotated
Bibliographies

2. HELLO!
I am Amber Pierdinock
I’ll be your embedded librarian this semester.
Email: pierdinocka@sccsc.edu
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3. Welcome!
Hi everyone! I know working on an Annotated Bibliography can
be intimidating (especially if you have never done one before),
so I made these slides to help break them down a little more!
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4. What is an Annotated Bibliography?
▫ An Annotated Bibliography is a list of sources (a
Bibliography) with notes included (called annotations)
that summarize, evaluate, and explain how you use a
source in your essay.
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5. Important Note!
▫ Your AB is a separate assignment from your paper, so
in your essay, you will still have a Works Cited page.
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6. Sample Annotated
Bibliography
▫ Your AB should include
5 sources, so you will
have 1 annotation for
each of your sources.
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7. 4 Parts to Every Annotation
1. MLA Citation for Source
2. Summary (2-3 sentences) explaining what the
source is about.
3. Evaluation (5 sentences) explaining how you
know this source is credible and why.
4. Your Use (1-2 sentences) explaining how you are
planning to use this source in your essay.
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8. How Do You
Create Your
Annotation?

9. Working Thesis Statement
▫ Your AB should start with your Working Thesis
statement at the top of your first page.
▫ Your Working Thesis is the thesis statement that you
are using for your overall paper.
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10. Let’s Look at an Example
▫ Let’s say you were writing a paper for ENG 101 and you
found this article: “Another Problem with Daylight Saving
Time: The Time Change Raises Your Risk of Hitting Deer on
the Road.”
▫ We will walk through how you would complete an annotation
for this source.
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11. 1. MLA Citation
▫ Figure out what kind of source you are citing
(magazine, website, journal, etc.).
▫ Create the full MLA citation for your source.
▫ You can get help with your MLA citations by checking
out the SCC MLA Guide:
https://libguides.sccsc.edu/MLA
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12. Citing our Article
▫ The article, “Another Problem with Daylight Saving Time: The Time Change
Raises Your Risk of Hitting Deer on the Road” is an example of an article
written for a database.
▫ The MLA Citation would be:
Langen, Tom. “Another Problem with Daylight Saving Time: The Time
Changes Raises Your Risk of Hitting Deer on the Road.” Gale
Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection, Gale, 2022. Gale in
Context: Opposing Viewpoints,
link.gale.com/apps/doc/QNUCXU988844906.
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13. 2. Summary
▫ The summary is where you will explain to your reader
(in 2-3 sentences) what your source is going to be
about.
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14. Summary of Our Article
▫ A summary for our article would look like:
⬝ This article discusses a study completed by the author and
several former students where they analyzed thousands of
deer-vehicle accidents in New York state across a three-year
period. The study found that most accidents happened at dusk
and dawn in the autumn, when deer are most active and it is
difficult to see them and when daylight savings time has just
begun.
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15. 3. Evaluation
▫ The evaluation is the longest and biggest part of your
AB.
▫ This is where you will look at the author, publisher,
date, evidence, and bias of an article to prove the
article’s credibility.
▫ Remember to write about all elements of a source in
your evaluation.
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16. Looking Up the Author
▫ I Googled Tom Langen (the author) and found his work
profile at Clarkson University, where he is a Biology
professor.
▫ I learned he has a PhD in Biology, he teaches courses about
animal behavior, and one of his research focuses is the
environmental impact on roads.
▫ Based on this information, he sounds like a credible author
to write about this subject.
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17. Sample Author Evaluation
▫ An evaluation of our author would look like:
⬝ The author of this article, Tom Langen, would be a credible
author to write about deer behavior during Daylight Savings
Time because he is a professor of Biology at Clarkson
University and holds a PhD in Biology from the University of
San Diego. Dr. Langen also teaches many courses about
animal behavior and one of his top research focuses is the
environmental impact of roads.
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18. Looking Up the Publisher
▫ Next, I looked up where this article was published, the Gale
Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection.
▫ I learned this is a library database that publishes articles
about different controversial social issues.
▫ Since the article was published for Opposing Viewpoints,
this would be a credible publisher since Gale Opposing
Viewpoints is a popular library database for colleges.
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19. Sample Publisher Evaluation
▫ An evaluation of our publisher would look like:
⬝ This article was published in the Gale Opposing Viewpoints
Online Collection, a library database focused on publishing
articles about different controversial social issues. Gale
Opposing Viewpoints is a well-known academic library
database and would be considered a credible publisher of
information about social issues.
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20. Looking Up the Date
▫ The article was published in 2022, so it is very recent.
▫ This means all the information and statistics should be
up-to-date.
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21. Sample Date Evaluation
▫ An evaluation of our date would look like:
⬝ The article was published in 2022, making the information and
statistics in the article very recent and not outdated.
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22. Looking Up Evidence
▫ When we think about evidence, we are looking for how the
author proves their argument in the article.
▫ Look for a Works Cited, statistics, or other studies/articles
referenced in the article.
▫ Our example source does not have a Works Cited, but lists
other academic studies plus the author’s original study.
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23. Sample Evidence Evaluation
▫ An evaluation of the article’s evidence would look like:
⬝ Langen’s article does not include a Works Cited page,
however, he links to various other academic studies
throughout the article. Additionally, Langen references
his own study and the police accident reports he used to
analyze the deer-related car accidents.
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24. Looking Up Bias
▫ Bias is the perspective that an article is taking in how
they present their information. Is the author only
looking at one side of the argument?
▫ Bias can be influenced by the author or publisher
(such as where they work or who published the
information).
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25. Sample Bias Evaluation
▫ An evaluation of the article’s bias would look like:
⬝ Langen is not affiliated with any organization that would make
him biased toward the subject of deer-related car accidents.
His article solely focuses on deer-related car accidents in New
York state and not on a national level. However, this article is
not biased because he was drawing his conclusions based on
reviewing police reports of car accidents related to deer.
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26. 3. Your Use
▫ Your Use is where you will explain in 1-2 sentences
about how you plan to use this source in your paper.
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27. Your Use of the Article
▫ Your Use of the article would look like:
⬝ I would use this source in my paper to help me argue
why Daylight Savings Time can have negative and
dangerous impacts on a person’s well-being. I also plan
to use this article for the statistics that were found in the
author’s study.
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28. AB Extra Help Resources
▫ Annotated Bibliography Guide:
https://libguides.sccsc.edu/AB
▫ Sample AB:
https://libguides.sccsc.edu/ld.php?content_id=32405910
▫ AB Extra Help Worksheet:
https://libguides.sccsc.edu/c.php?g=544481&p=3732822
▫ AB Help Video: https://youtu.be/_6HHZov24vo
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29. THANKS!
Any questions?
You can email me at:
pierdinocka@sccsc.edu
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30. CREDITS
Special thanks to all the people who made and
released these awesome resources for free:
▫ Presentation template by SlidesCarnival
▫ Photographs by Unsplash
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