Annotated bibliographies are a collection of annotations, or short descriptions, about information sources. As students, annotated bibliographies can be helpful in keeping track of sources for a longer paper or for showing that you actually have done research. Professionally, annotated bibliographies are published to help researchers get a handle on what has been published in a given field. For example, here is a link to a published annotated bibliography on the Spanish-American War and military actions in the Philippines.
To the right is a page image from an annotated bibliography so you can see what one should look like. Below is a handout that should help you put together annotations and below that is a good explanation of descriptive and critical/evaluative annotated bibliographies.
Below is a video that discusses annotated bibliographies in a bit more detail.
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