How to Write an Annotated Bibliography

1. How to Write an Annotated Bibliography Purpose of Annotated Bibliography: Two purposes: Summarise research Evaluate relevance/usefulness to your project

2. How to Write an Annotated Bibliography Structure: Cite bibliographical details: Author(s) / Date / Title / Publisher / Place of Publication. Paraphraseauthor’s thesis Summarise author’s main points Evaluate relevance/usefulness of research for your project

3. How to Write an Annotated Bibliography Language: choose verbs carefully; e.g., argues analyses claims considers suggests

4. How to Write an Annotated Bibliography Language: use evaluative adverbs; e.g., Forcefully Persuasively Carefully Rigorously tentatively

5. How to Write an Annotated Bibliography Example: Ashcroft, Blah & Blah (1989), The Empire Writes Back, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. In The Empire Writes Back, Ashcroft et al. argue that in the 1980s a new academic discipline emerged, a discipline they call “postcolonialism”. They argue that postcolonialism uses a wide range of methods to understand colonialism and its effects. This analysis is centred upon understanding how language is used in the colonial context by both coloniser and colonised. This work provides a very useful introduction to the main concerns and methods of postcolonialism.