YOU MUST SELECT THREE SOURCES AND WRITE THREE ANNOTATIONS:

YOU MUST SELECT THREE SOURCES AND WRITE THREE ANNOTATIONS: 

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Select One Art Review from a national paper: Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle etc. You may research and select other newspapers.

Select One Art Review from an art magazine: Artforum, Art in America, Art Papers, Juxtapose, Flaunt, Sculpture etc. You may research and select other magazines.

Select One Art Review from an online or lifestyle source (print or online: Huffpost, Temporary Art, New York Times Style Magazine, Vanity Fair etc. You may research and select other sources.

Follow Directions: How to Write an Annotated Bibliography 

Sample Annotation Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. Anchor Books, 1995. Lamott’s book offers honest advice on the nature of a writing life, complete with its insecurities and failures. Taking a humorous approach to the realities of being a writer, the chapters in Lamott’s book are wry and anecdotal and offer advice on everything from plot development to jealousy, from perfectionism to struggling with one’s own internal critic. In the process, Lamott includes writing exercises designed to be both productive and fun.

Lamott offers sane advice for those struggling with the anxieties of writing, but her main project seems to be offering the reader a reality check regarding writing, publishing, and struggling with one’s own imperfect humanity in the process. Rather than a practical handbook to producing and/or publishing, this text is indispensable because of its honest perspective, its down-to-earth humor, and its encouraging approach.

Chapters in this text could easily be included in the curriculum for a writing class. Several of the chapters in Part 1 address the writing process and would serve to generate discussion on students’ own drafting and revising processes. Some of the writing exercises would also be appropriate for generating classroom writing exercises. Students should find Lamott’s style both engaging and enjoyable. In the sample annotation above, the writer includes three paragraphs: a summary, an evaluation of the text, and a reflection on its applicability to his/her own research, respectively.