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Revising your annotated bibliography

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Seek comments from your classmates on the draft of your annotated bibliography entry (or on your entire bibliography, if you have drafted one). You can use your classmates’ comments to help you revise.

The following questions and guidelines will help your reviewers focus their feedback and help you plan your revision.

Is the source summarized clearly? Have you identified the author’s main idea?
Summarizing without plagiarizing
Have you evaluated the source for accuracy, quality, and relevance?
Evaluating all sources
Have you made a clear judgment about how and why the source is useful for your project?
Thinking about how sources might contribute to your writing

Using sources to inform and support your argument (MLA, APA, Chicago)
Have you used quotation marks around exact words from a source?
Using quotation marks with borrowed language (MLA, APA, Chicago)
Have you provided complete bibliographic information for each source in the style required (MLA, APA, Chicago)?

The following strategies may help you decide how to use your reviewers’ comments.

Tips for using reviewers’ comments

Use this space to write a few revision goals before you revise your annotated bibliography entry and compose your entire bibliography.

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Revising your annotated bibliography - 1

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