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An annotated bibliography is a list of citations, complete with a brief description of each one. These descriptions are meant to evaluate the source, put it into context, and explain why it is relevant. For more information on annotated bibliographies, including information on how to write them, visit the below link:
About Annotated Bibliographies by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center
Annotated bibliographies include brief statements about each source. These annotations may take one (or more) of the following forms:
Annotations may include any number of the following elements:
For more information on citations, see Citation Resources: Manuals and Guides
The following example is based on MLA citation style. Check with your professor to see if they have additional or alternative information they would like included in your annotations.
| Churchill, Suzanne, and Adam McKible. "Little Magazines and Modernism: |
| An Introduction." American Periodicals, vol. 15, no. 1, 2005, pp. 1-5. JSTOR, https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.lib.davidson.edu/stable/20771167. |
| Authors Suzanne Churchill and Adam McKible are established |
| researchers of little magazines, having written multiple books and articles on the subject. This academic article serves as an introduction to little magazines and to an issue of American Periodicals devoted to them. As such, it seeks to define little magazines and place them in the context of their time: at the center of modernism. While the article does not necessarily present new scholarship or ideas about the periodicals, it does provide a useful and enthusiastic introduction to them. This article is particularly useful because it seeks to provide a definition for little magazines that is more inclusive than definitions found in other sources. |
