Owens Library Annotation Writing

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Annotation Writing

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Design Guidelines	Files & Folders	Implementation Process
Locating WWW Resources	Resources for Web Authors	Template
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Examples of Annotations

Vocabulary

Database Names

Annotations in bibliographies and webliographies should:

Use active voice

Active		Passive
find links to subjects		links to subjects are found
we proposed new laws		new laws were proposed
Participants chose these sites		These sites were chosen by participants
Information professionals evaluated the resources.		The resources have been evaluated by information professionals.

Employ complete sentences
Employ recommended vocabulary standards listed below. Use the vocabulary list for our words and use their wording/spelling for page titles or quotes
Illustrate the content of the material by listing unique keywords. (Then patrons can type ctrl-f to locate an annotation on the page that contains certain keywords or find a particular Web page by entering keywords in Owens Library's Site Search box at the top of each library Web page. Specific Examples of annotations are listed below.)
Try not to use the word you in an annotation
If using quotes from the material to help describe the book or Web site - enclose all quotes in quotation marks

Bibliographies

Describe the important features of the book:

Indicate if the book has a table of contents or an index
Indicate how the book is arranged (Example: alphabetically, geographically, by decade)

Webliographies

Describe the important features of the Web site:

Indicate if the page has a search box or search engine
Provide credibility information about the author/sponsor but do not link to their credentials
Specify how the site is arranged or organized (Example: alphabetically, thematically, table of contents or menu)
Only include links to essential under-level pages that are not easily located from the top-level page of the site.

Examples:

Book

Web

The 100 Best Colleges for African-American Students
3rd Floor, 378.73 W74o
This edition goes beyond descriptions of academic and career programs to give a comprehensive and objective picture of the benefits, the challenges, and the pitfalls for African-American students at each of the leading colleges profiled. Some of the contents include admission requirements, campus social environments, scholarship and financial aid programs, career opportunities, and more.

Assessing Adult Learning: a Guide for Practitioners
3rd Floor, 374.1 M82a
This volume supplies guidelines for assessing adult learning. Topics include designing tests and evaluating their results, portfolios, and achieving authenticity in performance assessments.

Frank Potter's Science Gems - Mathematics A professor of physics at the University of California at Irvine produces an annotated list of math sites arranged by topic and grade level; subjects include: algebra, calculus, geometry, history of mathematics, number theory, probability and statistics, and trigonometry.	Example of an annotation without a link to the author's resume or sponsor's home page.
Global Business Web Resource Center (no longer an active link) "Global Business Web is a free international business portal to make contacts, do research, promote your company and conduct business." It houses a searchable database and a resource center with "over 5,000 global business resources categorized by region and subject."	Example of an annotation with a link to information not easily found from the main page.
AskERIC Lesson Plans "This collection contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans which have been written and submitted to AskERIC by teachers from all over the United States and the world." Search the database for lesson plans in any field including multiculturalism, reading, mathematics, social studies, language arts, science and the arts.	Example of an annotation with a descriptive quote from the page source.
Note - all of the annotations use multiple keywords.

Vocabulary:

Particular words and phrases are repeated throughout the Owens Library Web pages. If the words or phrases that follow are included in annotations or anywhere on a library Web page, use them as they appear below:

Library Catalog
online
homepage
Web site
full-text
peer-reviewed

E-mail
Internet
Web
webliography

Database Names

EBSCOhost

FirstSearch

InfoTrac

LexisNexis

Miscellaneous

WilsonWeb

Miscellaneous	EBSCOhost
ACM Portal ACS Publications (American Chemical Society) CQ.com (congressional info) CQ Researcher CollegeSource CountryWatch.com EDRS (ERIC Document Reproduction Service) IngentaConnect International Index to Music Periodicals JSTOR NewsBank PubMed	Academic Search Premier Academic Search Elite America: History and Life Alt HealthWatch Clinical Reference Systems ERIC Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia Health Source - Consumer Edition Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition Historical Abstracts MAS Ultra MasterFILE MLA International Bibliography Military and Government Collection Primary Search PsycINFO
FirstSearch	InfoTrac
GEOBASE WorldCat	Expanded Academic
LexisNexis	WilsonWeb
Academic Academic Business Academic Legal Research Academic Medical Academic News Academic Reference	Applied Science Full Text Biological & Agricultural Index Plus Education Full Text Readers' Guide Retrospective

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