*Note: These are possibilities. The specific information you choose to give the reader of your annotated bibliography will be shaped by your particular research focus. (You're assuming your readers have chosen to read your bibliography because the parameters defining your work are consistent with their interests as well.)

- Does the source include field research?
- How credible is the author? Is she/he an authority in the field?
- What light does the work throw on central controversies in the field?
- What's the author's main argument?
- Why would my reader want/not want to read this work?
- What tools does this work provide (for research similar to mine)?
- What solutions does it offer to a central problem/question in the field?
- How does it clarify historical ambiguities and misperceptions?
- What's its scope/range?
- What's the writer's central hypothesis and how convincing is the evidence the writer brings in support of that hypothesis?
- What brief quotes communicate the tone/argument of the work?
- What strategies does the work offer?
- Re (for example) the impact of age in language learning: what factors does the work address?
- What examples does the work provide supporting (or contradicting) my working hypothesis?
- What's the author's theoretical approach?
- What are the author's explicit or implicit assumptions?

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