The Annotated Bibliography

      The Annotated Bibliography, an alphabetized listing of sources accompanied by a description or annotation, will consist of a minimum of eight sources and must adhere to the MLA Handbook (8th edition) style guide. This allows for some flexibility; nonetheless, each independent author must remain uniform and consistent with his or her own formats. Sources should reflect a variety of research strategies; in other words, you do not want eight sources from simply googling your topic. Do not inadvertently create sentence fragments within your annotations. Only use author last names in annotations (we have their first names in the bibliographic entry). Avoid redundancy with the information contained in the bibliographic entry itself (such as source origin or title). Avoid repetitious sentence structures within annotations, especially the first sentence of each separate annotation (i.e. “This source is . . . .”). Do not use the word talks in your annotation (i.e. “This source talks about . . . .”); instead, try something like this: "Dr. Livingston discusses . . ." or "The author points out . . ." or "This government site gathers statistical data . . .."