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Gender Studies & Race and Ethnic Studies 490 - Senior Seminar: Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliographies

An annotated bibliography consists of a list of citations to books, scholarly articles and other documents on a defined topic, followed by a 1-3 sentence annotation, or brief analysis, of that citation. For Gender Studies and Race and Ethnic Studies, the citations will follow the Chicago Manual of Style (see the Citing Sources page on this guide for more help with citations).

An annotation differs from an abstract because it does more than summarize.

Annotations:

  • describe the relevance of the citation to the topic 
  • assess the methodology and sources consulted in the article, and their relation to the topic
  • critically describe and evaluate the citation and relate it to other literature covered in the annotated bibliography

EXAMPLE:

Source: Matrix, Sidney Eve. "Cyberfeminism and Technoculture Studies: An Annotated Bibliography." Women's Studies Quarterly 29, no. 3/4 (2001): 231-49. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40003755.

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