Topic: The Effect of Hourly Instagram Usage on Addiction and Time Management Skills of Underage Teenagers

Annotated Bibliography 

One Source Annotation “rough draft”: March 3rd Revised Final Draft with minimum 5 sources: March 10th 

The annotated bibliography is your chance to demonstrate the breadth and depth of research that you have done on your research project to date. This assignment will help prepare you for the final essay of our course. 

Sample Annotated Bibliography (Links to an external site.) (only three sources, but final should have five–three of those should be scholarly)

What’s an Annotated Bibliography?

Annotated bibliographies serve as a guide for research. A “bibliography” is a list of sources writers use to research a specific topic. An “annotation” is an extended description and evaluation of a source. An “annotated bibliography” is a list of sources with a detailed annotation of each source. Take a look at sample annotated bibliographies to get a sense for what an annotated bibliography does and looks like. 

BEAM Requirements 

Write an annotated bibliography of your research so far that includes at least five sources. At least three sources must be scholarly sources. 

Using the BEAM classification, your revised bibliography must include sources that you are using in the following ways: background source, exhibit sources, and argument sources. A single source can count for more than one of these types of sources, e.g. you might classify one source as both a background source AND an exhibit source. 

Annotations 

Each annotation will include the following in a table format: 

MLA Works Cited entry 

3- to 4-sentence summary of source 

2- to 3-sentence analysis of the source’s reliability and trustworthiness 

BEAM Classification with 1-sentence explanation for classification 

1- to 2-sentence reflection of how the source fits into your research

Please see the sample annotation table on the next page to better understand the different parts of an annotation and the requirements for each. 

Grammar and Usage 

A well-written bibliography will use correct punctuation and grammar, avoid sentence-boundary issues, and demonstrate varied word and sentence usage. A perfect bibliography will be free of mechanical errors; a good bibliography will come very close to being error-free. A poor (read: failing) bibliography will annoy the reader with careless mistakes. However, you may revise your bibliography for your Research Paper Final Draft. 

Definitions 

Summary: Brief statement of main points of source in your own words without commentary or interpretation. 

Paraphrase: Presents detailed section of source in your own words without commentary or interpretation. 

Analysis: Brief explanation of the reliability and trustworthiness of the source that considers elements like author, publication, purpose recency, and bias. 

ENG 112 Annotation Format 

This is the format needed for creating the Annotated Bibliography annotations.

MLA Works Cited 

Summary (3-4 sentences) 

What is the main idea and argument of the source? What does it cover?

Analysis (2-3 sentences) 

Why should we trust this source? Why should we be skeptical of this source?

BEAM Classification (1-2 sentences) 

Is this a Background, Exhibit, Argument, or/and Method Source and why? 

Reflection (1-2 sentences)

How does this source fit into your research?

Please copy and paste this table into your own Annotated Bibliography to keep formatting. (If you’re having difficulty copying and pasting from Canvas, check out the Google Doc version of the guidelines.)

The full, in depth rubric is right here: Annotated Bibliography Rubric  INCLUDEPICTURE “https://learn.vccs.edu/images/svg-icons/svg_icon_download.svg” * MERGEFORMATINET Download Annotated Bibliography Rubric 

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