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- Scholarly vs. Popular vs. Professional
- Publisher types
- Some tools for evaluating books
The Art of Annotation
- A typical annotation will
- be under 250 words
- identify the thesis of the item (if it has one)
- Apply one or more of these simply simple evaluative measures
- Authority (where does the author teach?) (Contemporary Authors)
- Audience (who is the item written for?)
- Credibility (why accept what the author writes?)
- Currency (how recent is the item?)
- Perspective (what methodologies, theories, or possibly unstated assumptions are in play?)
- Purpose (what gap does the item fill in the scholarship?)
- Scope (what date, geographic, or topical range does the item cover?)
- Some guidance from other universities
University of Chicago Style
Plagiarism is ...
- Easy to commit in annotations
- Avoidable. Some guidance from: