Sometimes an annotated bibliography is a step in a research process. Other times it is produced as a final document.

The Purdue Online Writing Lab provides these resources for annotated bibliographies: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/

This assignment is not technically an essay, but it will be weighted as an essay grade.

Purpose: The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to consider works or visual art as either lyric (expressing an idea or emotion) or narrative (telling a story). Yes, we are applying writing terms to visual art. You will also find 2 written pieces to discuss. Details are below.

1. Visit the Dallas Museum of Art
2. Find 5 pieces of art
   1. Create an MLA 8^th edition works cited listings for each piece
   2. Annotate each listing with:
      1. 1-3 sentences describing the piece
      2. 3-6 sentences discussing whether the piece could be considered lyric or narrative.
      3. 2-4 sentences discussing the audience appeal of the piece (Broad or narrow? Popular or specialist?)
3. Online or in the library, find two articles that discuss some aspect of art, art interpretation, museums, or the history or creator of one of your 5 pieces of art.
   1. Create MLA 8^th edition works cited listings for each article
   2. Annotate each listing with:
      1. 1-3 sentences summarizing the article
      2. 3-6 sentences relating the article to the discussion of lyric/narrative, audience appeal, and/or one or more of your chosen pieces of art.

FORMATTING:

• Regular MLA heading.
• The title is “Annotated Bibliography”
• Double or single space the document (be consistent)
• You may use subheadings for the annotations if you want (be consistent)
• MLA citations need to be in Hanging indent
• All 8 entries need to be in alphabetical order
• An example is posted online in the Annotated Bibliography folder