I’ve now finished grading all but two of the annotated bibliographies you did for the December 5 homework assignment and have some comments that you’ll want to take to heart as you work on your annotated bibliography for the final project.
MLA Style
- Make sure you follow the latest version of MLA style for your citations
- See the guide to MLA style from the online writing center at Purdue University, which is very good
- If you are copying automatically generated citation from a database or from a tool like EasyBib, double check that citation using the MLA style guide above (don’t put 100% in these automation tools)
- In your annotation, if you mention the name of a book, journal, magazine, or newspaper, you must set it in italics
Identifying Article Types
- For articles in your bibliography, you must specify correctly the type:
- peer-reviewed journal article
- non-peer-reviewed journal article
- magazine article
- newspaper article
- If you are stumped, you can ask me or any other librarian for help.
Spellcheck and Proofread Your Work
- There is no reason to do things like type “Google” as “google” (unless you are using the word as a verb)
- If you read your annotations aloud to yourself, you can easily spot wording that is awkward or grammatically incorrect
