Humanities Honors
Mrs. Oppedisano
Romanticism Research Paper: Working Annotated Bibliography
Due Thursday, May 8 th :
1.
Working Annotated Bibliography
2.
Evidence of note-taking from research
What information is included in a WORKING BIBLIOGRAPHY?
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The complete title of the resource, with author’s name, publishing company, place of publication and copyright date. (This info is found in the citation or title page of articles)
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Exact page numbers of the article, entry, chapter, etc. that you used or read
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What kind of source is it? (Website, book, journal article, etc.). Articles need volume
and issue numbers, as well as dates accessed. Double space (2 nd line = tab + 3 spaces)
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For the working bibliography, you should have 4-5 sources. Do not include URLs from webpages. Later, the finished Works Cited page must be alphabetized.
 Formatting Example of Bibliography Citation, MLA*:
Article from online database:
Author’s name. “Title of Article.” Title of Journal Volume Issue (Year): Pages. Database. Web.
Date accessed.
EXAMPLE:
Wicker, C.V. “On Wordsworth’s Westminster Bridge Sonnet.”
Rocky Mountain Modern
Language Association 5.1
(1955): 13-14. JSTOR. Web. 16 May 2012.
Poem from online website:
Byron, George Gordon. “Darkness.”
Poets.org. The Academy of American Poets, n.d.
Web. 5 May 2014.
Annotations: A brief description of the source that follows the bibliographic citation. This should include a summary of the source as well as how you will be using this in your paper.
Summarize : Some annotations merely summarize the source. What are the main points of this book or article? What topics are covered? If someone asked what this article/book is about, what would you say?
Assess : After summarizing a source, evaluate it. Is it useful? How does it compare with other sources in your bibliography? Is the information reliable? What is its goal?
Reflect : Once you've summarized and assessed a source, you need to ask how it fits into your research. How does it help you shape your argument? How can you use this source in your research project? Has it changed how you think about your topic?

Moe Rezierch
Mrs. Oppedisano
Humanities Honors Period 1
May 8, 2014
Working Bibliography
1. Byron, George Gordon. “Darkness.” Poets.org. The Academy of American Poets, n.d.
Web. 8 May 2013.
This is one of my primary sources. Since we discussed this poem in class, I’ll be focusing on the diabolical visual imagery. Some of the most important lines reference fire and its wicked dance with life (and death). For example, all of man’s habitations were “burnt for beacons” (13), and the resulting fires consumed the rest of the cities.
2. Byron, George Gordon. “ Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed from a Skull, 1808.”
Poets.org. The Academy of American Poets, n.d. Web. 8 May 2013.
This is my second poem (and primary source). From this poem, I’ll be focusing on…
3. Bloom, Harold, ed.
Lord Byron (Bloom’s BioCritiques).
New York: Chelsea House
Publications, 2002. Print.
This book contains several essays by Harold Bloom that are helpful to my research. Of all the ones he wrote on Lord Byron, the main one I’ll be using is called…
4. Spiro, Melford E. “Whatever Happened to the Id?” American Anthropologist 81.1
(1979): 5-13. JSTOR. 10 May 2013.
This is a critical secondary source from JSTOR that discusses Freud’s theory of the id within the human subconscious. I’ll be applying Spiro’s theories as I complete my psychoanalytic reading of Byron’s poetry; for example, one of the article’s main points is…

REMINDER: On the due date, please bring two copies of your working bibliography; one copy will be for me, and the other will be kept in your folder.
TIPS for MLA Formatting:
-For books, check the copyright/title page for all needed information.
-For articles taken from JSTOR or EBSCOHost, look at the title page or click on “View Citation” to see the full bibliographic information.
-For websites, check the title and author of the page, the host site, and date adapted. For those of you getting your poems from Bartleby, you can click on the “bibliographic record” link above the poem to get all the info you need.
To use Easybib to cite journal articles, click on “Databases”
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Journal article (drop down menu)
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complete the fields, making sure that it is all under “Online Database.” If you are using a magazine or newspaper article, select accordingly.
To cite books through Easybib, you may be able to type in the ISBN # for an automatic citation; however, double-check the citation for accuracy.
Note: Do not simply rely on Easybib to autoformat your work accurately. Double-check the citations the old-fashioned way!
When transferring completed citations from Easybib to a Word document, check that the formatting and spacing stays consistent.
You can also go to the official MLA formatting site: OWL at Purdue
Note-taking on sources:
Please be prepared to show me how you’ve read through your critical sources. If you printed out the entire article, there should be evidence of highlighting and side notes. Other options include retyping significant lines into a Word document—with the author of the article and the page number—or writing them down in your notebook.
In your actual research paper, you’ll have both direct quotations and paraphrased points. Both require citing the author’s last name and page number from the corresponding article.
When citing poems, you’ll write the author’s last name and line #: (Shelley 24). If citing from two poems by the same author, you’ll write the following: (“Darkness” 22) and (“Lines
Inscribed” 10). Basically, all information must correspond with your final
Works Cited page .
The final Works Cited page will be simple and evenly-spaced. All sources are in alphabetical order, and there are no annotations. See the sample on the next page.

Moe Rezierch
Ms. Liu
Humanities Honors Period 1
May 13, 2013
Works Cited
Bloom, Harold, ed.
Lord Byron (Bloom’s BioCritiques).
New York: Chelsea House
Publications, 2002. Print.
Byron, George Gordon. “Darkness.”
Poets.org. The Academy of American Poets, n.d.
Web. 8 May 2013.
Byron, George Gordon. “ Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed from a Skull, 1808.”
Poets.org. The Academy of American Poets, n.d. Web. 8 May 2013.
Spiro, Melford E. “Whatever Happened to the Id?” American Anthropologist 81.1
(1979): 5-13. JSTOR. 10 May 2013.