Well That's Smart!

Well That’s Smart!

                Recently I wrote an Annotated Bibliography for the first time. For those of you that don’t know what that is don’t feel bad because up until recently I didn't either.

An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to references trailed with a brief summary and analysis of each reference being cited. This type of writing is to describe the relevance and quality of the source you are citing.

In this annotated bibliography I used articles from newspapers, scholarly journals, blog posts and I’m still in search of other genres of research that I might be able to use for my paper.

As informational and useful as the scholarly journals are, they were really thorough with tons of studies but quite lengthy, and sometimes awfully hard to gain access to some. On the same note, I found the scholarly journals to be tremendously helpful.

Newspaper articles were useful due to the more current take on my topic. The authors tended to give a more updated informational based point of view without just giving the cold hard facts. Articles of this fashion didn't take up a huge chunk of my time to sift through and were fairly easy to find.

Blog posts tend to be more opinionated in general yet have a lot of truth and experience behind them. Aside from being extremely easy to find they were quick reads. This was a great resource to use in order to gain different personal perspectives as to how they felt about being a woman in business and having mentors or the importance of having one.

Writing an annotated bibliography made it a fairly simple and more organized way to handle a research project. It definitely made it way easier to tell heads from tails. Inserting cites will also save me a lot of time later.