Effective Annotated Bibliography Setup Guide

1. Annotated Bib due tomorrow when you come to class! • Please come with your research either printed or saved somewhere you will be able to have access to it. You will be reading and annotating in preparation for Wednesday’s work. • PLEASE READ YOUR DIRECTIONS on correct set up. I will come around to check your work. • Read the rest of this to check your work.

2. Saving and Printing Sources • Copy and paste information to a Word document that you will have access to: flash drive or Google Docs or Home folder or all of this. • Use as few pages as possible: smaller font, smaller margins, smaller spacing. • Save the source information at the topic. • Print once you know you won’t print a million pages.

3. Things to consider • ABC order by FIRST WORD OF ENTRY. • Titles of books and magazine and databases are in italics. • Author last name, author first name. • Don’t use all caps in any part of entry. • Your final annotated bib should look like my example. • Punctuation matters. Period at the end of EVERY entry. • Don’t know how to do something, Google it or ask! • Unhighlight anything that is highlighted. • Everything should be in the same font and format. • If your entry doesn’t begin with an author’s last and first name, that is okay. It will then begin with the title of the selection in “quotation marks.”