So I have to do an annotated
bibliography?
What exactly is that?
And where do I start?
This is an exercise in research that helps you to find
materials for your topic, and evaluate them for their
usefulness for your research paper.
You should be picking a topic that you are actually
going to use in another class – history, physics,
psychology, etc.
When you are finished, most of your research will
be done for your other class.
You need to find 10 different
types of entries:
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(which may include)
Book with 1 author
Book with 2 or more authors
Anthology
Monthly or quarterly magazine article
Newspaper article
Film, filmstrip, videotape
Anonymous work or article
TV or radio broadcast
Or these:
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Multivolume work
Weekly magazine article
Website
CD Rom or electronic journal
Scholarly journal
Translated article
Government document
interview
Requirements:
• Document must be typed
• Sources must be listed alphabetically
• First line must contain the citation which
will go in your works cited page (MLA,
unless your teacher otherwise specifies)
• After each listing, you will have a
paragraph which summarizes the source
• Evaluate in the paragraph for: accuracy,
value, usefulness, limitations
Entries in this powerpoint are
MLA style
For updates on the latest style, or
entries that are not covered, see
www.mla.org
An entry for your annotated bibliography
will look like this:
Frye, Northrup. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays.
Princeton: Princeton UP, 1957.
This entry will give a summary of the book & some of the
information that will be helpful in writing your paper. This
should also evaluate how accurate you consider this source,
whether it will be valuable to your paper. You should
consider the limitations of this source for your paper.
Your work cited page, or
bibliography, should look like this:
Works Cited
Fukuyama, Francis. Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the
Biotechnology Revolution. New York: Farrar, 2002.
Hutcheon, Linda, and Michael Hutcheon. Bodily charm: Living Opera.
Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2000.
Lawrence, D. H. The Letters of D. H. Lawrence. Ed. James T. Boulton. 8
vols. New York: Cambridge UP, 1979-2000.
Quirk, Randolph, et al. Hysteria beyond Freud. Berkeley: U of California
P, 1993.
But for each source:
There is a specific way to cite it ------and I will be giving you examples of
each
The basic entry: A book by a
single author
Author’s name. Title of the book. City of
Publication: Publisher’s name, copyright date.
Fukuyama, Francis. Our Posthuman Future:
Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution.
New York: Farrar, 2002.
An Anthology or a Compilation
In place of the author, you have the editor, or
compiler:
Lopate, Phillip, ed. The Art of the Personal Essay.
New York: Anchor-Doubleday, 1994.
Sevillano, Mando, comp. The Hopi Way: Tales from
a Vanishing Culture. Flagstaff: Northland, 1986.
Two or more books by the same
author:
Borroff, Marie. Language and the Past. Chicago: U
of Chicago P, 1979.
---, trans. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. New
York: Norton, 1967.
---, ed. Wallace Stevens: A Collection of Critical
Essays. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice, 1963.
A Book by Two or More Authors:
Eggins, Suzanne, and Diane Slade. Analysing Casual
Conversation. London: Cassell, 1997.
Marquart, James W., Sheldon Ekland Olson, and
Jonathan R. Sorensen. The Rope, the Chair, and
the Needle: Capital Punishment in Texas. Austin:
U of Texas P, 1994.
If there are more than 3 authors,
you may name only the first and
add et al. (and others)
Quirk, Randolph, et al. A Comprehensive
Grammar of the English Language.
London: Longman, 1985
A Book by a Corporate Author:
American Medical Association. The
American Medical Association
Encyclopedia of Medicine. Ed. Charles B.
Clayman. New York: Random, 1989.
A Work in an Anthology:
(Where you are only using a selection from it)
Allende, Isabel. “Toad’s Mouth.” Trans.
Margaret Sayers Peden. A Hammock
beneath the Mangoes: Stories from Latin
America. Ed. Thomas Colchie. New York:
Plume, 1992. 83-88.
The last entry are the numbers of the pages of your selection.
An Article in a Reference Book:
“Azimuthal Equidistant Projection.” MerriamWebster’s Collegiate Dictionary. 10th ed. 1993.
or --- if it has an author:
Mohanty, Jitendra M. “Indian Philosophy.” The
New Encyclopedia Britannica: Macropaedia. 15th
ed. 1987.
An article in a magazine:
Mehta, Pratap Bhanu. “Exploding Myths.”
New Republic 6 June 1998: 17-19.
Wintraub, Arlene, and Laura Cohen. “A
Thousand-Year Plan for Nuclear Waste.”
Business Week 6 May 2002: 94-96.
Electronic Information:
• Follow the recommendations for citing
information from books
• If there is no author, begin with the title of the
document
• The title of the site is underlined and follows the
title of the article
• Follow with: editor’s name, version number, date
of electronic publication, date of print publication,
name of sponsoring institution, URL
For example:
Zeki, Semir. “Artistic Creativity and the Brain.”
Science 6 July 2001: 51-52. Science Magazine.
2002. Amer. Assn. For the Advancement of
Science.
“Catalan.” Si, Espana. Ed. Jose Felix Barrio. Vers.
3.0. May 2002. Embassy of Spain, Ottawa. 10
May 2002
http://www.SiSpain.org/spanish/language/languag
e/catalan.html.