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Creating an Annotated BibliographyAn annotated bibliography is a list of citations of a variety of sources (books, articles, videos, websites, etc.) that also has a short paragraph describing and evaluating each particular source. This paragraph is called an annotation. The purpose of the annotation is for you to think critically about the source: what sort of information it covers, in what way it covers that information, and whether it was helpful to you. The annotation should be 3-6 sentences long, and should briefly cover CONTENT, INTENDED AUDIENCE, ILLUSTRATIONS, and UNIQUE FEATURES. Questions you should think about answering when writing your annotation include (you might not cover all these questions in your annotation):
The paragraph should be single spaced with its first line indented. See a Sample Annotation. For more information about writing an annotation, see:
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