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=**WHAT IS AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY?**= An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents. Each citation is followed by a brief (usually about 150 words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph, the annotation. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited.

Annotated Bibliography Sample
Waite, L. J., Goldschneider, F. K., & Witsberger, C. (1986). Nonfamily living and the erosion of traditional family orientations among young adults. //American Sociological Review,// 51 (4), 541-554. The authors, researchers at the Rand Corporation and Brown University, use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Young Women and Young Men to test their hypothesis that nonfamily living by young adults alters their attitudes, values, plans, and expectations, moving them away from their belief in traditional sex roles. They find their hypothesis strongly supported in young females, while the effects were fewer in studies of young males. Increasing the time away from parents before marrying increased individualism, self-sufficiency, and changes in attitudes about families. In contrast, an earlier study by Williams cited below shows no significant gender differences in sex role attitudes as a result of nonfamily living.
 * SAMPLE ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRY FOR A JOURNAL ARTICLE**
 * The following example uses the APA format** for the journal citation.

= ﻿ ﻿Grammar and Style Guide:= The following link is from Goucher College and is an A-Z grammar and style guide with answers to many capitalization and punctuation questions that we come across in professional writing. Just a few examples of items addressed in the guide are how to properly capitalize and punctuate job titles, degrees, and institutions.

Here is the link:

[|Grammar and Style Guide]