Within my research for my paper topic “privacy” I have realized how helpful an annotated bibliography actually is. Being able to provide an annotated bibliography gives a great understand of your sourceses being provided and how vital they are towards your paper. One of the reasons behind citing sources and compiling a general bibliography is so that you can prove you have done some valid research to back up your argument. An annotated bibliography provides proof of that this valid research has been done. Readers can refer to a citation in your bibliography and then go back and look up the material themselves.