Kent-Drury
English 422

Annotated Bibliography

An annotated bibliography provides complete bibliographical information about a collection of works on a particular subject or topic and includes with each one an annotation, or a brief descriptive and critical statement of around 150 words of what the work contains. Annotated bibliographies are tools that can be used to help you keep track of articles you have read and, if maintained over your career as a literature major, can provide you with a substantial resource for use in the future research.

Your paper assignment requires that you use at least three current, appropriate, critically selected sources in your paper. In order to locate three such sources, you will need to look at many more resources; however, choose wisely: any set of resources won't do, and citing a source just to cite it won't earn any points. Remember too that you aren't limited to three resources on your paper, and some topics have much more written about them. If you find yourself awash in resources, chances are your topic is too large and needs to be narrowed down.

Also, don't forget to consult the assignment! The main cause of C's and D's on recent assignments has been failure to read over what the assignment requires.