Creating an annotated webliography

Purposes:

•To collect relevant and useful websites for your research

•To create hotlinks to speed up the research

•To document your information

What is it:

A webliogragraphy is a list of links you will use to get your information for a report or presentation. It includes for each entry:

• the URL

•the source that created the URL

• abrief explanation of the information to be found at this site.

Example:

Webliography for topic:

Topic

All women at the age of 13 should be fitted with mandatory Norplant birth control devices.

http://obgyn.uihc.uiowa.edu/Patinfo/Bcontrol/norplant.htm

(Published by University of Iowa Health Care, a department of the University of Iowa School of Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology/ Betty Van Woert, R.N., B.S.N. 1991, reviewed 1994)

This page describes the devices and presents the benefits and drawbacks of this form of birth control.

http://www.fda.gov/opacom/lowlit/brthcon.html

(Published by the US Food and Drug Administration., Tina Gilliam, 1/22/01)

This page lists all the available methods of birth control for purposes of comparison of effectiveness.

http://www.mchlibrary.info/alert/alert020599.htm#2

(Produced by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services. It quotes from KIDS COUNT report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. 2/1999)

This page has several hot issues listed, one of which discusses rates of teen pregnancies projected for 2005.