Webography

What is a Webography? A webography (aka webliography) offers students like you a new perspective on an old assignment classic: the annotated bibliography. Even if you have never heard the phrase “annotated bibliography,” most (if not all) of you have certainly compiled a bibliography (or a reference list) for a research project or paper. But you may not yet have been asked to compile and create an annotated bibliography. So, let’s begin by reviewing terms with which you probably are familiar:

 A bibliography/reference is a list of sources (books, journals, websites, periodicals, etc.) one has used for researching a topic. A bibliography/reference usually just includes the bibliographic information (i.e., the author, title, publisher, etc.).

 An annotation is a summary and/or evaluation. When we put these two terms together, then, we arrive at the following definition of “annotated bibliography:” An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents. Each citation is followed by a brief descriptive and evaluative paragraph, the annotation. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited. Like the classic annotated bibliography, the webography/webliography offers readers a list of citations and accompanying annotations to source materials related to a given topic. However, unlike the classic annotated bibliography (which can include both library and non-library resources), the webography/webliography only includes online resources (i.e., webpages). Reference: Stacks, Geoff and Erin Karper. “Annotated Bibliographies.” Online Writing Lab @ Purdue University. Purdue University. July 2001. Web. 4 May 2006. Webography 101: A very short introduction to bibliographies on the Internet. http://1980swebography.weebly.com/what-is-a-webography.html

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