The Annotated Bibliography:
It is the goal of the annotated bibliography first to establish your control over your sources and then to show me (and yourself) how you intend to employ their information. A good annotation provides a succinct summary of the article, and it should give some insight into the articles relevance to your own agenda. This is the first step in establishing the “because” explanation (warrant) upon which the Toulmin supportive approach turns. The more relevant information you pack into the annotation, the more your own argument is going to take form before you start writing. You will also find that beyond helping to sculpt the contours of your own analysis and approach, the annotated bibliography easily becomes your works cited page (bonus!).
Example:
Grant, Barry Keith (1996). Rich and Strange: The Yuppie Horror Film [Electronic
Version]. Journal of Film and Video, Vol. 48, No. ½ (Spring-Summer 1996): pp. 4-16. URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20688090
Grant examines a subgenre of the contemporary horror film, the “Yuppie Horror film,” focusing on the way that this subgenre employs the same elements of traditional horror films but shifted to exploit the 1980’s-early-1990’s social and cultural preoccupation with material success. Using a wide variety of films as his support, Grant demonstrates the way that Yuppie horror replaces monsters and the supernatural with financial horrors such as losing one’s livelihood, social standing and/or material possessions. This essay will provide material for my analysis of the salient economic anxieties and cultural tropes that motivate the affluent villains in Bret Easton Ellis’ short stories, the Devil Wears Prada (1989) and Let Them Eat Stake (1990).
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