Learning in Wartime Annotated Bibliography
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Learning in Wartime Annotated Bibliography
Example of an Annotation (or one entry in an Annotated Bibliography)
First, you list the particular work—book, essay, film, whatever—like you would in your Works Cited or Bibliography at the end of your paper.
Then, you provide a brief summary or description of the work, and the way that it does or does not fit into your argument.
(For the purpose of this example annotation, let’s pretend we’re writing an essay on maintaining one’s nutritional health while in college.)
Lewis, C. S. “Learning in Wartime.” The Weight of Glory and Other Essays. New York: Harper Collins, 2009. 23-38. Print.
Lewis is writing to students at Cambridge in 1939 as the first rumbles of the Second World War have begun. Germany is bombing London. So he asks the question: what’s the point of university studies, or really any non-utilitarian work, in a time of war? To answer this question, he asks a deeper one: what’s the point of these sorts of activities at any time for a Christian, who believes that we are all living in the face of death, and an eternal destiny either of heaven or of hell? To answer, Lewis says that humans are not made to be purely utilitarian creatures. We tell jokes on castle walls, discuss theories while marching, and that sort of thing. So we might as well pursue good culture rather than the poor stuff that would inevitably fill the vacuum if we didn’t.
His point is more nuanced than that, but for our purposes: he doesn’t touch on nutrition specifically, but there are potential applications to my essay. For example, his emphasis on the holistic nature of being human provides strong support for my ideas about not neglecting one’s nutritional health while pursuing university studies.