BA3: Annotated Bibliography
Tips For Success
Before you begin BA3 . . .
• Review:
https://raiderwriter.engl.ttu.edu/files/LitReviewIntr
oSP13.pdf
• Review: Annotated Bibliography examples (586-91)
• Review:
https://raiderwriter.engl.ttu.edu/files/1302Literatur
eReviewTopics.pdf
• Review: BA3 guidelines in Raider Writer
• Decide on a topic.
• Skim the articles on course reserve. Read abstracts,
Decide on a sub-topic. For example:
• Digital Humanities/Book History:
– the book as a material object;
– the roles of editors, book designers, illustrators, and booksellers
in shaping texts for readers;
– the future of the book;
– the status of intellectual property in the age of Google books;
– the problems of research in a digital age;
– the nature of digital preservation;
– the causes and effects of digital piracy;
– the place of computer games and game theory in the digital
humanities;
– the transformation of cultural, literary, and historic texts into
digital form, etc.
BA3: Summarize
• Be brief. Just one or two sentences.
• Look to abstracts and introductions.
• If you use someone else’s words or ideas, you
must cite CITE!
• Check out the handbook (13b) for help
deciding when to quote, summarize, and
paraphrase.
BA3: Accuracy
• How might an article be “accurate”?
– How current is the information?
– How much detail is present?
– What kind of evidence is used? (statistics, case
studies, other articles) Does it explain the
evidence?
– Do other articles cite this article? Check out the
Works Cited
– Does it seem biased?
BA3: Quality
• How might an article be of good quality?
– Which database does it come from?
– Can you trust the source material? How do you
know?
– Does it come from a trusted (peer-reviewed)
source?
– Is the tone professional?
– Who wrote it? What is that person’s credentials?
Pedigree?
BA3: Relevance
• How might an article be relevant to your subtopic?
– For whom is the article written? Can you understand
it?
– Tell where/how you might use the article. It’s okay to
guess or give options. You can always change your
mind later.
• To establish the concept? To give a brief history of the
debate?
• Statistical data to support a specific point?
• Case study to give this issue a face?
• Be as specific as you can.
Helpful Resources
• Textbook:
– “Tips For Finding Reliable Sources” (103-11)
– Annotated Bibliography examples (586-91)
• Handbook: sections 12c and 12d
• List of articles and bibliographic information:
– https://raiderwriter.engl.ttu.edu/files/1302LiteratureReviewTopi
cs.pdf (remember to change the date of access)
• Accessing the articles:
http://www.lauriandersonalford.com/uploads/9/6/2/8/962
8234/ares_training_guide.pdf
• Check out the Works Cited of articles you like to find more
articles that aren’t on the list. Search those databases.
• Search in Google Scholar
Looking Ahead
• Literature Review: Due 9/27
• For Next week:
– Read pages 124-40 in your textbook
– Read examples of Literature Reviews, beginning on page
609 of your textbooks.
– Read/print out anything I send you via email.
– Come to class with
• a thesis that makes a claim based on the literature about the topic,
not the topic itself.
– Debate among scholars? Different camps of thought? Research styles?
Types of evidence used?
• Two or three main-idea sentences that address the literature, not
the topic itself.
• Begin to write! Make notes! Start!