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NHD Annotated Bibliography Webquest

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Read each section of the website and answer the questions below to learn about Annotated Bibliographies and how to create them for your NHD project!

WHAT IS IT?
  1. Creating an Annotated Bibliography allows the reader to know what?
  1. First, an annotated bibliography tells the reader…
  1. Second, the annotation informs the reader…
  1. An annotated bibliography is crucial to the NHD process because…
FORMATTING
  1. Your list should be titled ______
  2. Not ______
  3. Not______
  4. This title should be located where?
  1. Your Annotated Bibliography should be divided into two sections marked what?
  2. P______
  3. S______
  4. Sections should be alphabetized by the first word excluding what three words?
  5. ______
  6. ______
  7. ______
  8. Other Key Formatting Instructions
  9. What style of citation is most commonly used by professional historians when they write and publish their work?
  1. For complete definitions of primary and secondary sources, as well a complete set of the Contest Rules, where should I look?

BUILDING YOUR ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

  1. To cite a book you need five (5) key elements:
  2. If I’m doing this on my own , I would list it like this:

Morris, Edmund. Theodore Rex. New York: Random House, 2001.

CITING SOURCES IN NHD HISTORICAL PAPERS
  1. Most historians use these when they write a paper, article or book. (circle the correct answer)
  2. Subnotesb. Footnotes
  3. Ehdnotesd. Chapter Summaries
  1. What order should your citations be for footnotes?
  1. Record the two styles of Footnotes mentioned in this section for “Theodore Rex”
  2. (First use of source)
  3. (Second use of source)
  4. But what if I put it in my own words…do I have to cite it then? (circle correct answer)
  5. YESb. NO

BLOCK QUOTES

  1. If you have a quote that is more than two lines across the page, then it should be converted to a block quote (circle the correct answer).
  2. Trueb. False
  3. Block quotes are single-spaced, tabbed on one half inch from the left side of the page, and do not need quotation marks around them. They should always have a footnote at the end attributing the source (circle the correct answer)
  4. Trueb. False
  5. Do I have to cite every sentence of my paper? (circle one)
  6. Yesb. No
  7. How do you cite all of the information, quotes and paraphrases, in one paragraph, if it comes from one source?
CITING SOURCES IN EXHIBITS AND WEBSITES
  1. Do brief citations count against your word count? (circle one)
  2. Yesb. No
  3. Print Sources should be cited with the...
  4. Visual Sources
  5. Are Google or other search engines a viable source? Why or why not?

CITING SOURCES IN PERFORMANCES

  1. When you are creating a performance or a documentary, you do not need to actively cite sources during your presentation, because it would disrupt the flow of your product. (circle one)
  2. Trueb. False

CITING SOURCES IN DOCUMENTARIES

  1. Do you need to cite your images as they appear on the screen?
  1. What should a list of relevant audio and visual sources that you included in your documentary look like? (six examples are shared: record four examples below)

Click on “Writing Annotations”

THREE COMPONENTS OF A GOOD ANNOTATION

  1. What are the three components of a good annotation?
  1. How long should an annotation be? Why?
  1. What does the NHD Contest Rule Book state about annotations?
OTHER DETAILS THAT YOU MIGHT WANT TO INCLUDE IN AN ANNOTATION
  1. Why should you use the annotation to explain if a source is Primary or Secondary?
  1. How would you classify a book that contains Primary sources?
FULLER EXPLANATION OF CREDITS FOR DOCUMENTARIES
  1. How do you give credit in a documentary for photos or other Primary sources?
SHOULD I LIST EACH PHOTOGRAPH OR DOCUMENT INDIVIDUALLY?
  1. When you find a collection of photographs that you want to use, you only need to cite them once, as a group. (Circle one)
  2. Trueb. False
HOW MANY SOURCES SHOULD I HAVE FOR MY ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY?
  1. Summarize this section in your own words and record those thoughts below.

Click on “Quoting and Paraphrasing”

DECISION POINT 1: SHOULD I USE THE AUTHOR’S WORDS OR MY OWN?
  1. As a general rule, you only want to quote when the quotation is perfect. Why is that?
  1. How would you show a quote within a quote? Record the example below.
  1. what if I only want to use part of a quotation?
  1. OK, so I found a written document, but it contains a spelling or grammatical error from the original author. What do I do?
DECISION POINT 2: WHAT IF I CAN SAY IT BETTER?
  1. Paraphrase the section below in your own words

Go to to view sample citations and record five (5) of YOUR sources below.

Practice Bibliography

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