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APA EXAMPLE OF INFORMATIVE ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
TAKEN FROM PATRICIA BIZZELL AND BRUCE HERZBURG'S BOOK 

Voeltz, L.M. (1980). Children's attitudes toward handicapped peers. American   
    Journal of Mental Deficiency, 84, 455-464.
      As services for severely handicapped children become increasingly available 
      within neighborhood public schools, children's attitudes toward handicapped 
      peers in integrated settings warrant attention.  Factor analysis of attitude 
      survey responses of 2,392 children revealed four factors underlying attitudes 
      toward handicapped peers: social-contact willingness, deviance   
      consequation, and two actual contact dimensions.  Upper elementary-age 
      children, girls, and children in schools with most contact with severely    
      handicapped peers expressed the most accepting attitudes.  Results of this  
      study suggest the modifiability of children's attitudes and the need to develop 
      interventions to facilitate social acceptance of individual differences in 
      integrated school settings.

APA EXAMPLE OF INDICATIVE ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
EXAMPLE FROM THOMAS TATE'S HANDOUT FOR THE WRITE PLACE

Howard, T, & Rifkin, J (1977). Who should play God? New York: Dell. 
    This book "lifts the cloak of secrecy from genetic experiments" and 
    explores, among other things, "who is performing the research and who 
    profits from it" (12). It's clearly anti-genetic engineering; its chapter titles 
    give a good idea of the direction and flavor of the book, for example, 
    "Eugenics," "Eliminating 'Bad' Genes," "Bio-Futures," "Scientists and 
    Corporation." This book looks as if it is an appropriate source for the 
    social arguments from the political left wing.

NOTE: This example includes an instance of citation within an annotation.
 You can also see in this example that if the bibliography itself is only one line,
 you go on to indent two spaces as usual for the annotation.

APA EXAMPLE OF EVALUATIVE ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
EXAMPLE FROM LAURIE CARLSON'S HANDOUT 

Schechter, H. (1971). Death and resurrection of the king: Elements of primitive
    mythology and ritual in "Roger Malvin's Burial." English Language Notes, 8, 
    201-05.
      Though Schechter reorganizes the material in an interesting format, basically 
      his study is a reiteration of Cassier's seminal argument in The Sacred and the 
      Profane: Modern Myth Studies. Schechter's major contribution to the debate 
      is his recognition that Reuben sacrifices Cyrus so that the curse of death-in-   
      life can be removed. Schechter's attempt to put Cassier's argument in a 
      Jungian context is intriguing but not quite successful, since he must ignore  
      important elements in the story to do so.

NOTE: Compare the content of the following APA summary annotation with the critical/evaluative 
annotation given above for the same source. Note the difference in approach and information.

Schechter, H. (1971). Death and resurrection of the king: Elements of primitive
    mythology and ritual in "Roger Malvin's Burial." English Language Notes, 8,
    201-05. 
      Working with Frazer's paradigm of the death and resurrection of the King 
      motif in myth and ritual, Schechter sees Malvin as the dying king in 
      Hawthorne's short story and Reuben as his successor. Reuben sacrifices 
      Cyrus so that the curse of death-in-life can be removed. Thus, the tale 
      becomes the imaginary fulfillment of the blessing of fertility (204).

APA EXAMPLE OF COMBINATION ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: 
TAKEN FROM CENTER FOR INFORMATION ON LANGUAGE TEACHING AND THE ENGLISH TEACHING INFORMATION CENTER 
OF THE BRITISH COUNCIL'S BIBLIOGRAPHY. 

Morris, Joyce M. (1959). Reading in the primary school: An investigation into 
    standards of reading and their association with primary school characteristics.      
    London: Newnes, for National Foundation for Educational Research.
      Report of a large-scale investigation into English children's reading 
      standards, and their relation to conditions such as size of classes, types of 
      organization and methods of teaching. Based on enquiries in sixty schools in 
      Kent and covering 8,000 children learning to read English as their mother 
      tongue. Notable for thoroughness of research techniques.

APA EXAMPLE OF TELESCOPIC ANNONTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
EXAMPLE FROM I. F. BELL AND J. GALLUP'S REFERENCE GUIDE

Vowles, Richard B. (1962). Psychology and drama: A selected checklist.  
    Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, 3(1), 35-48.
      Divided by individual authors.  Reviews the research between 1920 and 
      1961.

APA EXAMPLE OF PARAGRAPH ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
TAKEN FROM MICHAEL ENGLE, AMY BLUMENTHAL, AND TONY COSGRAVE'S "HOW TO PREPARE AN 
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY" 

Goldschneider, F. K., Waite, L. J., & Witsberger, C. (1986). Nonfamily living and     
    the erosion of traditional family orientations among young adults. American 
    Sociological Review, 51, 541-554.
      The authors, researchers at the Rand Corporation and Brown University, use
      data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Young Women and Young 
      Men to test their hypothesis that nonfamily living by young adults alters their 
      attitudes, values, plans, and expectations, moving them away from their 
      belief in traditional sex roles. They find their hypothesis strongly supported 
      in young females, while the effects were fewer in studies of young males.    
      Increasing the time away from parents before marrying increased 
      individualism, self-sufficiency, and changes in attitudes about families. In 
      contrast, an earlier study by Williams cited below shows no significant gender 
      differences in sex role attitudes as a result of no family living.

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