Transcript Welcome to Resurrection Library

How to…
Create an
Annotated Works Cited
What is an Annotation?
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A note providing additional information
about the source
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Summarize – what are the main ideas?
What topics are covered?
Evaluate – does it pass or fail the CRAAP
test? How? (if it doesn’t pass, DON’T use it in your final research!)
Link – how relevant is it to your research?
Why are you using it?
100 words, in paragraph form,
immediately following the citation
Note: hanging indents, alphabetical order!
Sample Annotated Works Cited
"Jessie Owens." Bio. True Story. A+E Networks, n.d. Web. 6 Sept. 2012.
<http://www.biography.com/people/jesse-owens-9431142>. In 100 words, make sure you
describe the type and content of the source (e.g. this one is a web site and then you would
describe what topics it covers), describe why it passes (or fails) the CRAAP test
(remember – if it doesn’t pass, don’t use the source in your final research!), and then link it
to your overall project (describe . Notice how this paragraph is immediately following the
citation – it’s not in a separate paragraph.
"Owens, Jesse." UXL Encyclopedia of World Biography. Ed. Laura B. Tyle. Vol. 8. Detroit: UXL,
2003. 1435-1437. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 6 Sep. 2012. In 100 words, make
sure you describe the type and content of the source (e.g. this one is an encyclopedia and then detail what topics it covers), describe why it passes (or fails) the CRAAP test
(remember – if it doesn’t pass, don’t use the source in your final research!), and then link it
to your overall project (describe . Notice how this paragraph is immediately following the
citation – it’s not in a separate paragraph.