What to include:
   •
    Authority assessment: The background and  
     affiliations of the Author
   •
    A summary of the content
   •
    Comparison/assessment: How did it compare to
      other books/articles?
   •
    Evaluation: What did you think of it, and how
      will it help your topic?
      What an annotated bibliography is  not:
                  A simple synopsis.
       A Sample Annotated Entry
  Darling, Nancy. “Peer Pressure is not Peer Influence.”
          Principal Sept./Oct. 2002: 67-69. Print.  
  Darling, a professor of education at Bard College, writes that 
  adolescents are most often influenced not by what their friends 
  do or say, but how they think their friends will react to a situation. 
  Darling asserts that by providing positive information, involving all 
  students, and grouping students differently, schools can provide 
  opportunities to reinforce positive values. The idea of preconceived 
  notions of peer reaction is better addressed here than in other sources 
  that I found.  This idea of adolescent positive peer influence is a 
  timely theory and strongly supports the theme of my paper.
  Remember: annotated bibliographies 
  are simply an organized list of the 
  sources that you have used, each of 
  which is followed by a brief note: the 
  annotation. The annotation itself is a 
  brief description and evaluation of the 
  book or article.