IS2 Journal Entry Week 8 – Annotated Bibliography

Why do you annotate bibliography? I first wondered why it is important. After I analyzed the sources and understood how they function to support my paper, I agreed to the importance of annotated bibliography. When you only have the sources listed, you can’t identify which source supports which statement/ argument. When doing an annotated bibliography, you need to include what the sources are about, how they are related to and supports your argument (what specific part of the sources helps your argument), and why they are important to be used in your paper. Once you annotate each source in your bibliography, you can always go back to the page and refer to what each source is about and how they work with your paper arguments. In addition, you can add or subtract anything referenced from the sources at any time. For example, when you first thought you only needed the paraphrased information from the source, but now after writing down the paper, if you think you need to quote the exact words from the source, you sure can. It is easy to find which source you need to look into and find what information you need to relate and rewrite. On the contrary, when you cited information that was first needed for your argument, but now you think it isn’t necessary, you can edit or delete. You can easily go to your bibliography and find the source and delete. Think if you need to discard the source and you didn’t know which one was the one you want to delete. You probably need to go through every source to find the one you don’t want.

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