An annotated bibliography is an academic text containing an alphabetical list of citations and "annotations" (critical summaries) for sources on a particular subject. The citation is the bibliographic material related to the source (author, date, title, publication city, publisher, journal title, online address, newspaper title, etc.). Each of the sources you cite in your annotated bibliography will be cited in APA style.
You will each write annotations for 4 different sources that you intend (at present) to use in your academic composition. Two of your sources must be from peer-reviewed, academic journals. Note: you may eventually decide not to use one or two of these sources in the report you write, but you can still include them in your annotated bibliography provided they speak to your topic in some direct way.
To write these annotations, begin by providing a 100-word summary of the source. Then write a 150-word critical description of the source. For the critical description, think about the responses you've written to our textbook thus far (both the diagnostic exam from the first week and your reading responses). You could discuss how this souce speaks to your issue, what its significance is to the issue you examined, why it would be helpful or less than helpful for people interested in your topic, where it falls short, where it is missing important considerations, etc.
So you will have 1. a source citation, 2. a 100-word summary of that source, and 3. a 150-word critical (thoughtful) response to that source.
For more information on how to write an annotated bibliography & an example of one, go here.
The grading standards for this assignment are also posted in Moodle.