This PPT for Ms. Stevens' ENG 101 class will cover what an annotated bibliography is and how to complete one.

1. All About Annotated
Bibliographies

2. Hello!
I’m Amber Pierdinock.
I’ll be your embedded
librarian this semester.
Email me at
pierdinocka@sccsc.edu
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3. Annotated Bibliographies
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
(AB)?
✔ 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 V
iewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/QNUCXU988844906/OVIC?u=spartechcl&sid=bookmark-
OVIC&xid=7add925d.
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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. Extra AB 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? 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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