Sample Annotated Biblio Entry (for your Research Logs)

Here's an entry I wrote last semester for an annotated bibliography. While I don't expect the exact same language, please note how I partially summarize the article I cite ("Thompson discusses"... "Thompson's aim"), relate it to another author I have read ("Similar to McKeon" -- note: this is not always possible/relevant to do), and end with how this essay is useful to me ("I am interested in exploring"). I will also not expect such a long entry this time around on your blogs, though you may do so if you like (it's helpful in the writing process!) 

Thompson, Helen. “‘An Idea, a thousand nameless Joys’: Secondary Qualities in Arnauld, Locke, and Haywood’s Lasselia.” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 48.3 (2007): 225-243.

(note on formatting citations: after the first line of text, each line should be indented... blogger's just not letting me do it right now)

Invoking the philosophies of Arnaud and Locke, Helen Thompson discusses “the idea of a thing located only within the person who receives it” and highlights the fact that for a good portion of the Lasselia, [the character] de l’Amye exists solely as an object/idea in Lasselia’s mind. As the narrative itself implies, his physical presence is almost unnecessary; for Lasselia, merely possessing him in her imagination is nearly enough. Similar to McKeon, who works to reunite the humanistic and the scientific, Thompson’s aim is also to emphasize the union of the mind and the body; while the body is the physical perceiver of data, it is with the mind that color and pain (Locke’s preferred examples) can be understood. Therefore, while mind and body appear distinct, it is only together that the human subject can take in ideas. I am interested in exploring how Thompson’s analyses of outside/insider and mind/body apply to my analysis of sight and idea-formation. 

Please let me know if you have any questions (feel free to post a comment below).