An annoted bibliography

An annotated bibliography is essentially a works cited with summary and reflection on the sources listed. It goes beyond simply listing the items you have found in the research process, in other words, to provide a reader a general idea of what he or she would find in them. It also helps prepare you, as a writer, to determine which sources are going to be most useful to you in the next stage of writing. As you move towards the final persuasive essay, it is also important that you become more and more capable of putting the ideas you encounter into your own words rather than relying too much on direct quotation.