Week 2A - Prepare an Annotated Bibliography 3

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Activity 3: Websites

• The best resource for what an annotated bibliography looks like is at this site from Cornell University. This site uses APA style. Notice the spacing of an annotated bibliography. Read how the writer critiques the sources he or she is using. Pay attention to how the writer uses punctuation, clear words, and indentation. Even though both APA and MLA examples are given, make sure to use the APA style. http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/skill28.htm
• Here is another sample of an annotated bibliography at Lesley University: http://www.lesley.edu/library/guides/citation/APAanno.pdf
• In order to create your annotated bibliography in TaskStream, you’ll need to document your sources using APA style. There are many APA guides on the internet. One of the best is: http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/American_Psychological_Association_(APA)_Documentation_M.pdf. Look at these examples to see how the author is placed in a reference, how the title looks, what punctuation you use, and how to create electronic references when you use the internet.
• For more information on evaluating web pages and other electronic sources, go to the library website for SUNY Albany at http://library.albany.edu/usered/eval/evalweb/ 




• The OWL at Purdue’s site provides more types of sources, such as blogs, interviews, and other non-print sources—as well as books, articles, and web sources—for your source list. You can view this page at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/