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What is an annotated bibliography? When and why is it used? Also, what are in-text citations and why do we use them? These are a few questions that we will be addressing in this paper, in addition to many other questions about these topics. Let us start by defining an annotated bibliography. As mentioned by Bullock et. al, “an annotated bibliography describes and gives publication information for, and sometimes evaluate each work on a list of sources.” (p.66) Additionally, an in-text citation is

When first brainstorming what topic I was going to pick for each annotated bibliography, it took me a while before I settled on a topic for each essay. While reflecting on my writing process, I came to the conclusion that more time would have definitely benefited my argument for each of these annotated bibliographies. If I had more time on each of these essays, I would have looked in more databases to try and find a wider variety of sources to argue each point. Since I can not search across all

An “annotated bibliography” is a list of cited sources. Each citation have a short description of important information about article, book, or document. Some features included purpose, audience, and topic. “Descriptive writing” is a detailed piece of writing that when readers read it the picture will pop up in their mind. “Speculative writing” is an unfinished piece of work, leaving the audience to predict the ending themselves. Annotated bibliography is a form of descriptive writing. Even though

The annotated bibliography is the second of four main projects in this writing course. I have never done an annotated bibliography before, so this was a learning experience. The expectations for myself on this assignment was to find good credible sources from the URI libraries database and write thorough summaries on the main points from each of them. I met most of the expectations where I explained the source material well and why it correlates to the argument. I formatted the citations well. I

Juxtaposing research via pinterest and annotated bibliography, taught me how social media can be used as an academic resource and how to adequately identify credible sources for an annotated bibliography. Also learning to use databases made it easy to find and identify reliable scholarly sources. Though I was familiar with citing sources, I had always used a web-based citation formulator. Therefore learning MLA 8th edition was a completely new experience. The rigidity and technicality used to scare

Research Overview When doing my annotated bibliography I had to go through many steps. First, I had to choose a topic of interest from 1492 to 1865. I decided on the topic the Indian Removal Act of 1830 because it seemed very fascinating to me and had a lot of information to read about and learn from. The next step I had to do was come up with a well-written research question and thesis statement that would help me understand what I would be looking for in my topic. After choosing my thesis

The article, “Annotated Bibliography: Why You Should Prepare One” entails information on the elements of an annotated bibliography and the advantages to creating one. To start, the article describes the author’s experience in using annotated bibliographies, with the author describing explaining how they used annotated bibliographies before they even knew what one was. Next, the author explains components of annotated bibliographies and instructions on creating a concise annotation. Finally, the article

she pulls up a power point from the projector the class begins right at 6:00. She begins with asking for students to get their writer's notebooks out and answer the question that was on the whiteboard: “(When it comes to Literature Review versus Annotated Bibliography) Which do you do and why? What do you understand to be the difference between these two mediums. Please respond to this question in your writer’s notebook.” Keener also mentioned that she would be

As for Seminars, I leaned how to write a CV and an annotated bibliography as well as explain concepts. All of them are useful. Knowing how to write a CV can help me to apply for schools or jobs. Knowing how to write an annotated bibliography can help me in my academic future at UIC. The most useful one is concept explanation presentation. When I learned to explain concepts, I got information

but as the course progressed, I became more curious and frequently generated new ideas to incorporate into my writing. When I first started the Annotated Bibliography, the course reader was a great help in outlining a template to follow. The Annotated Bibliography doesn’t require too much thinking, so I merely followed what needed to be done. The Annotated Bibliography still required knowledge of the general topics I would like to summarize. The summary themselves did not require me to be creative