What are the elements of an annotated bibliography?
Answered By: Stormye Hendrix
Last Updated: Aug 18, 2021

Elements of an annotation

Information found in an annotation may include:

  1. qualifications of author(s)
  2. purpose/scope
  3. audience and level of reading difficulty
  4. bias or standpoint of author
  5. relationship to other works in the field
  6. findings, results, and conclusions (if available); and
  7. format/special features (e.g., bibliography, glossary, index, survey instruments, testing devices, etc.).