Annotated Bibliography Sample

M4_Annotated Bibliography Sample

Research Topic Annotated Bibliography

Author, A. A. (Date). Article title. Name of Journal, Newspaper, or Magazine, volume(issue), page–range. http://dx.doi.org/xxxxx

The annotation should be placed directly below the reference entry for the source. Annotations should include a summary of the source as well as an evaluation of the source’s usefulness, credibility, and relevance to your topic of research. Evaluations can consider the appropriateness of a study’s methodologies, the authors’ conclusions, and the contributions of the source to a larger body of scholarship on this topic. Annotations are typically 100–200 words in length. See the assignment for specific guidelines.

Flynn, R. (2000). The kindergarten of new consciousness: Gwendolyn Brooks and the social construction of childhood. African American Review, 34(3), 483–99.  https://doi.org10.2307/2901386

In this article, Richard Flynn, a Professor of Literature at Georgia Southern University, analyzes the concept of African American childhood in the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks. Flynn argues that Brooks uses childhood as a motif in her poetry to critique notions of race and class. This article relies on primary literary analysis as well as numerous secondary sources to support Flynn’s argument, and his credentials and the peer-reviewed journal make this a credible source. This article will be useful for my research on children and childhood in literature because it offers a perspective about how the concept of childhood can stand in for other themes and concepts within literary works.