# Annotated bibliography

Research question: [what are you investigating?]
Required citation style and annotation length: [assignment instructions]

## Repeat for each source

### Full citation
[Verify author or organization, date, title, publication and link or DOI. Format them in your required style.]

### Summary
What does the source argue or explain? What evidence or method does it use? Paraphrase the relevant point and retain a page, section or timestamp.

### Evaluation
Who produced it? What makes it useful for this question? What are its limits, assumptions and possible conflicts? Distinguish a practical guide from an empirical study.

### Relevance
How will you use it? Which claim can it support? Which question will it not answer? What other source should you compare it with?

## Worked example — MLA 9

“The Cornell Note Taking System.” *Learning Strategies Center*, Cornell University, lsc.cornell.edu/how-to-study/taking-notes/cornell-note-taking-system/. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

Summary: This university learning guide introduces a way to organize notes, cue questions and a summary, with follow-up recall and review. The relevant evidence is the page's explanation of the note-taking system.

Evaluation: The university center is an identifiable source for its own study method. This page is practical instruction; it does not by itself establish that the method outperforms every alternative for every learner.

Relevance: I can use it to describe the structure of a Cornell notes worksheet. A claim about learning outcomes would need separate research comparing methods and populations.

### Source record behind the example
- Organization: Cornell University Learning Strategies Center
- Title: The Cornell Note Taking System
- URL: https://lsc.cornell.edu/how-to-study/taking-notes/cornell-note-taking-system/
- The citation starts with the title because this example supplies no named individual author. It includes the date the source was checked, without inventing a publication date from a copyright year.

## Before submitting
- Follow the assignment: it may request summary only, evaluation or a different structure.
- Check every source against the original and order entries as the required style directs.
- Distinguish quotations from your own paraphrases.
- Replace placeholders; never invent a date, DOI or page number.

Annotation reference: Purdue OWL — https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/common_writing_assignments/annotated_bibliographies/index.html
Citation references: MLA Style Center — https://style.mla.org/works-cited/citations-by-format/ and https://style.mla.org/access-dates/