Resource Annotation

“10 Facts about Zoos” Captive Animals Protection Society. 3 Mar. 2010. Web. 09 Apr. 2014.

Summary: The article makes a list of ten facts about how animals live in zoos. For example, zoos cannot provide sufficient space; they die prematurely in zoos; they connect to animal circuses. Each part is very short, but it provides rather full information about animals’ current situation.The purpose of the article is to claim that it is miserable for animals to live in zoos and further persuade readers to focus on the issue and protect animals. It gives several examples for each fact.

Usage: From this article, I gain an overview about several bad things that animals experience. I can pick several facts as my subthesis of animals’ suffering in zoos. Since the article have already provided short examples, I can find more details about these examples and use them to illustrate my points.