Instructors will often ask in their assignments that your annotated bibliography do one or more of the following things:

• Summarize a resource (describe its content)
• Summarize and evaluate a resource (is the resource reliable? what are the resource's strengths and weaknesses? how did the author arrive at their conclusions? are the references consulted by the author reliable and valid?)
• Summarize and evaluate a resource and explain why you think it's significant or useful for your particular assignment
• Summarize and evaluate a resource in relation to other resources in your annotated bibliography
• Describe your reaction to the resource

Summarizing and evaluating/critiquing resources are typically done in most annotated bibliographies, but you may be asked to configure yours in a certain way. Make sure you're following any specific guidelines from your instructor.

Chowdhury, Tufayel, Darren Scott, and Pavlos Kanaroglou. "Urban Form and Commuting

    Efficiency: A Comparative Analysis across Time and Space." Urban Studies 50.1 (2013):

    191-207. Web. 21 July 2014.

    Chowdhury, Scott, and Kanaroglou examine the relationship between the form of a city

    and the efficiency of commuting. The study compared commuting efficiency rates in

    three Canadian cities: Halifax, Nova Scotia; Hamilton, Ontario; and Vancouver, British

    Columbia. Amongst their conclusions, Chowdhury, Scott, and Kanaroglou state that

    even though commuting is generally more efficient in cities where there is a balanced

    jobs-to-housing distribution, this may not be the case with Vancouver: even though

    people in Vancouver may live closer to their workplaces than in Halifax, their commute

    has not decreased. The article covers new ground in that it uses an alternative

    approach--specifically, a modified form of a quantitative methodology known as

    Brotchie's triangle. The authors claim that this approach provides a way to look at a

    city's commuting patterns with respect to urban form, but they also admit that it may not

    be the best measure of comparing the distance between jobs and housing.

    This article is quite useful in my assignment as it provides a clear contrast to the article

    by Hodson and Vannini, who have used a qualitiative, ethnographically-based strategy to

    explore the lives of a specific set of British Columbia commuters.

Hodson, J., & Vannini, P. (2007). Island time: The media logic and ritual of ferry commuting

    on Gabriola Island, BC. Canadian Journal of Communication, 32(2), 261-275.

    Hodson and Vannini explore the notion of time as it is experienced in a bodily way by

    residents of Gabriola Island as they commute to and from Nanaimo on the MV Quinsam

    ferry. Using ethnographic methods such as participant observation and interviewing as

    well as writing in a narrative way, Hodson and Vannini attempt to convey how a sense of

    time is shaped by the rituals of Gabriola Islanders' everyday commuting and the

    idiosyncracies of ferry travel.The article does not aim to depict any sense of validity in a

    quantitative sense. Rather, Hodson and Vanini aim to show the trustworthiness of their

    conclusions from their personal narrative style--that the reader can be impressed by the

    realistic depiction of the commuters' lived experiences.

Hodson, Jaigris, and Phillip Vannini. "Island Time: The Media Logic and Ritual of Ferry

    Commuting on Gabriola Island, BC." Canadian Journal of Communication 32.2 (2007):

    261-275. Web. 17 July 2014.

    Hodson and Vannini explore the notion of time as it is experienced in a bodily way by

    residents of Gabriola Island as they commute to and from Nanaimo on the MV Quinsam

    ferry. Using ethnographic methods such as participant observation and interviewing as

    well as writing in a narrative way, Hodson and Vannini attempt to convey how a sense of

    time is shaped by the rituals of Gabriola Islanders' everyday commuting and the

    idiosyncracies of ferry travel.The article does not aim to depict any sense of validity in a

    quantitative sense. Rather, Hodson and Vanini aim to show the trustworthiness of their

    conclusions from their personal narrative style--that the reader can be impressed by the

    realistic depiction of the commuters' lived experiences.

Hodson, Jaigris, and Phillip Vannini. “Island Time: The Media Logic and Ritual of Ferry

    Commuting on Gabriola Island, BC.” Canadian Journal of Communication 32, no. 2

    (2007): 261-75. Accessed July 17, 2014. http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.viu.ca/

    docview/219578486?accountid=12246.

    Hodson and Vannini explore the notion of time as it is experienced in a bodily way by

    residents of Gabriola Island as they commute to and from Nanaimo on the MV Quinsam

    ferry. Using ethnographic methods such as participant observation and interviewing as

    well as writing in a narrative way, Hodson and Vannini attempt to convey how a sense of

    time is shaped by the rituals of Gabriola Islanders' everyday commuting and the

    idiosyncracies of ferry travel.The article does not aim to depict any sense of validity in a

    quantitative sense. Rather, Hodson and Vanini aim to show the trustworthiness of their

    conclusions from their personal narrative style--that the reader can be impressed by the

    realistic depiction of the commuters' lived experiences.