Annotated Bibliography guidelines and examples

Remember the following guidelines:

Annotate all secondary works with 3 or so sentences describing the author's thesis and, if appropriate, how you are using the work in your paper.

For primary sources, annotate the larger bodies of documents, bound collections, and other special materials.  You do not, for example, have to annotate every letter or newspaper article that you use.  Simply list these according to the guidelines in Rampolla.

Annotation examples:

Primary source annotation:

Seely, Fred Loring. "Biltmore Industries Archive." Grovewood Galleries, Asheville, North Carolina.

A collection of Fred L. Seely's correspondence, newspaper articles, and business records pertaining to Seely's business dealings with E.W. Grove and others in Asheville.  I have used various pieces of correspondence in the paper, including letters to and from Seely, his daughters, and his female employees.

Secondary source annotation:

Brunk, Robert S., ed., May We All Remember Well, Volume I: A Journal of the History and Cultures of Western North Carolina. Asheville:     
          Robert S. Brunk Auction Services, Inc., 1997.

This collection contains several useful articles explaining Seely's relationship to E.W. Grove, Grove Park Inn, Asheville, and George Masa. This work is geared more toward popular history than scholarly history, so there is not a thesis to these articles. It is a colorful and interesting collection of photographs and crafts from western North Carolina.

Bonomi, Patricia, Under the Cope of Heaven:  Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 1986. 

She argues that the Second Great Awakening, the evangelical movement of the late eighteenth century, allowed British American colonists to question authority and make decisions about their future independently.  This "practice" at independent thought allowed colonists to prepare for the political decisions they had to make at the onset of the Revolution. This book contains several ideas about decision making and avenues of communication that will be useful in my study of the ideological origins of the American Revolution.