Annotated Bibliography

• W riting an annotated bibliography is excellent preparation for a research project. Just collecting sources for a bibliography is useful, but when you have to write annotations for each source, you're forced to read each source more carefully. You begin to read more critically instead of just collecting information. At the professional level, annotated bibliographies allow you to see what has been done in the literature and where your own research or scholarship can fit. To help you formulate a thesis: Every good research paper is an argument. The purpose of research is to state and support a thesis. So, a very important part of research is developing a thesis that is debatable, interesting, and current. Writing an annotated bibliography can help you gain a good perspective on what is being said about your topic. By reading and responding to a variety of sources on a topic, you'll start to see what the issues are, what people are arguing about, and you'll then be able to develop your own point of view.
• To help other researchers: Extensive and scholarly annotated bibliographies are sometimes published. They provide a comprehensive overview of everything important that has been and is being said about that topic. You may not ever get your annotated bibliography published, but as a researcher, you might want to look for one that has been published about your topic.
• The annotations:The annotations for each source are written in paragraph form. The lengths of the annotations can vary significantly from a couple of sentences to a couple of pages. The length will depend on the purpose. If you're just writing summaries of your sources, the annotations may not be very long.

Using the Three source make a annotation on each work cited. MLA Form

Work cited:

1. Tinney, Chris. "A Deeper Look Into Poverty in U.S. Culture." Circles USA, 25 Feb. 2019, www.circlesusa.org/blog/2019/02/a-deeper-look-into-poverty-in-u-s-culture/?gclid=CjwKCAiAmJGgBhAZEiwA1JZoli-o_4Ke_-08dvMjJhx0QcBdsBOri_MJUHS5gt7OHdUHiw0lZaA9RBoC7k0QAvD_BwE.
2. Current, Social. "Resources for National Poverty in America Awareness Month." Social Current, 14 Jan. 2022, www.social-current.org/2022/01/resources-for-national-poverty-in-america-awareness-month/?utm_term=american+poverty.
3. Kharas, Homi Constanza Di Nucci. "To Move the Needle on Ending Extreme Poverty, Focus on Rural Areas." Brookings, 9 Mar. 2022, www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2020/02/21/to-move-the-needle-on-ending-extreme-poverty-focus-on-rural-areas.