如何写好留学生作业中的Annotated Bibliography？

Annotated Bibliography是什么意思？相信各位在国外大学的留学生们应该也不会陌生，Annotated Bibliography就是国外大学作业中最为常见的文体之一，也就是我们之前为大家介绍的参考文献列表，我们通过这份列表对来自于书籍、文献或其他资料的引用进行简单的描述与说明，今天我就以APA和MLA格式中的Annotated Bibliography为例，来辅导下各位如何去写好英文论文中的Annotated Bibliography。

 

 

它在中文中貌似没有对应的特别贴切的名称，可以叫做“附说明的资料目录”（尽管说来有些拗口）。而在本文中我们仍然称它为Annotated Bibliography。

 

除了写作课程中，老师会要求我们练习写作Annotated Bibliography。而在实际的研究工作中或者实际生活中，一般Annotated Bibliography并不会单独存在，它存在于开展研究工作或者撰写研究论文（Research Paper）的开始和准备阶段，目的在于帮助你更好的准备你的研究，在查找阅览相关资料时，对有益或者可能对你的研究有帮助的资料进行记录，以便于你在之后的工作中将这些资料用于你的研究中。

 

顾名思义，Annotated Bibliography里的每个条目由两部分组成：Bibliography和Annotation。

 

Bibliography包含文献信息。即：作者、书名（文章名）、出版商（杂志名）、出版日期、（线上资源网址）等信息。

 

Annotation包含对该文献的简单总结和评价。通常是一段大约100-150words的一段话。

 

总结和描述：简要说明该文献的主要论点、重点内容、主题是什么。

 

评价：阐述该文献对你的研究可能有什么作用。内容是否可靠、是否客观，它可能用于你的研究的哪个方面。

 

Annotated Bibliography的具体格式可能存在差别，在开始前你应该有一个明确的Guidelines。

 

以下是APA格式的Annotated Bibliography例子：

 

Waite, L. J., Goldschneider, F. K., & 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 nonfamily living.

 

以下是MLA格式的Annotated Bibliography例子：

 

Waite, Linda J., et al. “Nonfamily Living and the Erosion of Traditional Family Orientations Among Young Adults.” American Sociological Review, vol. 51, no. 4, 1986, pp. 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 nonfamily living.

 

通常大家在跟我们客服下达Annotated Bibliography定制写作订单时，大家需要注意：

 

1.给出明确的主题（topic），或者给出topic的范围；

 

2.明确使用的Style，比如：APA、MLA或者其他style；

 

3.下达正确、合理的订单页数（比如，包含5-7个sources的Annotated Bibliography，应至少下达2页订单，建议下达3页订单）。

 

看完了以上对于Annotated Bibliography写作技巧的辅导后，各位是否也学会了该如何去写好一篇优秀的Annotated Bibliography,其实我们在写作论文中遇到最多的也就是APA MLA格式的使用，因此我们在写作之前需要明确论文到底是使用哪种风格的写作格式，其次要明确我们的Guidelines，这样下来我们也能够渐渐的熟悉Annotated Bibliography的写作。