Annoted Bibliography
Annotated Bibliography & Purpose
BSHS/312
Models of Effective Helping
Professor Jamie Larson
December 23rd, 2012
In college, any paper that is written is required to provide reference, work cited, and bibliography pages. Some teachers require an annotated bibliography when conducting a research paper. Annotated bibliographies are descriptions of the sources that are used for citations. The main purpose of this bibliography is to help the readers evaluate whether the work cited is relevant to a specific research topic or line of inquiry (California Polytechnic University,
2010). A proper annotated bibliography will help the author writing think about the work using and how it relates to your own research (California Polytechnic University, 2010). Concerning the research aspect of conducting a paper the annotated bibliography can be useful and helpful. An annotated bibliography can help show the author which research was conducted under which parts of the topic they are writing about. If the author sees that there is a lot of research it can help break the research down letting the author choose which he or she feels is most important to use. It can also help point out where there needs to be more research if the author thinks it was not good enough to use or needs more to help back up points he or she are making in the paper. Being able to see where the research came from is helpful as well if the author wants to elaborate more on that part for the paper. Annotated bibliographies have many elements that are provided in them. First all part of the bibliography should have a certain citation style such as MLA, or ABA. Second in the annotation there should be a summary of the purpose of work. After this is done, there is typically a critique of the author who wrote the research which was found. Then the researcher summarizes whether the research was helpful, effective, and works with what he or she is writing about (The
BSHS/312
Models of Effective Helping
Professor Jamie Larson
December 23rd, 2012
In college, any paper that is written is required to provide reference, work cited, and bibliography pages. Some teachers require an annotated bibliography when conducting a research paper. Annotated bibliographies are descriptions of the sources that are used for citations. The main purpose of this bibliography is to help the readers evaluate whether the work cited is relevant to a specific research topic or line of inquiry (California Polytechnic University,
2010). A proper annotated bibliography will help the author writing think about the work using and how it relates to your own research (California Polytechnic University, 2010). Concerning the research aspect of conducting a paper the annotated bibliography can be useful and helpful. An annotated bibliography can help show the author which research was conducted under which parts of the topic they are writing about. If the author sees that there is a lot of research it can help break the research down letting the author choose which he or she feels is most important to use. It can also help point out where there needs to be more research if the author thinks it was not good enough to use or needs more to help back up points he or she are making in the paper. Being able to see where the research came from is helpful as well if the author wants to elaborate more on that part for the paper. Annotated bibliographies have many elements that are provided in them. First all part of the bibliography should have a certain citation style such as MLA, or ABA. Second in the annotation there should be a summary of the purpose of work. After this is done, there is typically a critique of the author who wrote the research which was found. Then the researcher summarizes whether the research was helpful, effective, and works with what he or she is writing about (The