Preparing an Annotated Bibliography

Preparing an Annotated Bibliography

Preparing an Annotated Bibliography

An annotated bibliography is a list of sources about a particular topic in which each citation is followed by a brief paragraph that discusses aspects of the source. An annotated bibliography is useful for documenting your research in a specific area, exploring varying viewpoints, and summarizing main points form different sources.

For the purposes of this research assignment, you will annotate your secondary sources as follows:

  • a clear, concise statement of the writer’s thesis (1 sentence)
  • a summary of the writer’s main points (2-3 sentences)
  • an evaluation of the writer’s credibility for all sources (1 sentence)
  • a concise statement of the ideas you will use from the source and how these ideas fit into your argument (1 sentence)

For the purpose of this assignment, you are required to have the following sources on your annotated bibliography:

  1. primary source (your copy of the story) – Do not annotate this entry.
  2. secondary source (literary criticism
  3. minimum of three additional sources; must come from scholarly, credible sources.

Note: This makes for a minimum of five entries for your annotated bibliography.

Additional Requirements:

  • You must submit a photocopy/printout of your secondary sources with your annotated bibliography. You must photocopy all required bibliographic information, e.g., publisher, date/place of publication, necessary information for web-based sources, date of access, etc. If you cut and paste sections from an internet source, be sure to also print the first and last pages of the source as this is where the necessary information will appear.
  • Paper clip your annotated bibliography to the photocopied sources

Format your bibliography citations in the same manner as for a normal reference list, and then follow these instructions for adding an annotation.

  1. Use hanging indents (these should measure ½ inch).
  2. Put all entries in alphabetical order.
  3. As with every other part of an MLA formatted essay, the bibliography is double spaced, both within the citation and between them. Do not add an extra line between the citations.
  4. The annotation is a continuation of the citation. Do not drop down to the next line to start the annotation.
  5. The right margin is the normal right margin of your document.
  6. The title of your annotated bibliography is the working title for your paper.

Sources:www.uwc.ucf.edu/handouts/Writing_Annotated_Bib.pdf and www.lesley.edu/library/guides/citation/mla_annotated.html

Burwell 1

SarahBurwell

Mr. Church

American Lit./Comp. 111B

8 August 2012

In Pursuit of Daisy, the Flower of the American Dream

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. 1925. New York: McMillan, 1980. Print.

---. “Winter Dreams.” 1922. Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes, The American Experience. Ed. Kate Kinsella, et al. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 2004. 744-62. Print.

Fryer, Sarah Beebe. "Beneath the Mask: The Plight of Daisy Buchanan." Print. Critical Essays on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Ed. Scott Donaldson. Boston: Hall, 1984. 153-66. This is a feminist essay that argues that Daisy is trapped in cultural constructions of Rich Wife and Pretty Girl - she chooses the "unsatisfactory stability" of her marriage because of those constructions. Fryer's only mention of Jordan is as a foil to Daisy - - "Like Jordan, Daisy is affected" (156). Fryer is a professor of American studies at WestmoreCollege. She teaches a seminar on Fitzgerald and has published numerous articles on his writings. I will use this information to support my claim that women are both passive and active agents in the novel.

Mandel, Jerome. "The Grotesque Rose: Medieval Romance and The Great Gatsby." Modern Fiction Studies 34.4 (1988): 541-58. Print. Mandel argues that Gatsby follows many of the conventions of medieval romance, and analyzes East and West Egg as competing courts, Buchanan as a prince/lord with Daisy as unattainable queen/fair lady. Gatsby and Nick are both construed as knights; Jordan is only mentioned in passing as a sort of attendant figure on Queen Daisy. Mendel is a professor emeritus at StateUniversity. This article appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, a peer-reviewed periodical specializing in the study of early nineteenth century writers. Mandel’s argument supports my contention that Daisy is the ultimate cause of Gatsby’s fall.

Burwell

Works Cited Entries for Contemporary Literary Criticism and related sources

If you use information from the prefatory article that does not provide the name of the writer, document as follows:

Marowski, Daniel G. and Roger Matux, eds. “Alice Walker 1944 – .” Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 46. Detroit: Gale, 1988. 422 – 23. Print.

If you use information from a critical essay with a named author, document as follows:

Harris, Trudier. “On The Color Purple, Stereotypes and Silence.” Black American Literature

Forum 18.4 (1984): 155 – 61. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Daniel G.

Marowski and Roger Matux. Vol. 46. Detroit: Gale, 1988. 424 – 27. Print.

Poetry for Students and related sources (such as Novels for Students)

If you use information from the prefatory article that does not provide the name of the writer, use the following documentation format. Treat the entire introductory article (biography, summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, etc.) as a single source and give the full range of page numbers for this section.

Ruby, Mary K., ed. “For the Union Dead.” Poetry for Students. Vol. 7. Detroit: Gale, 2000. 65 –

73. Print.

If the information is from an essay which has an author but not an essay title or previous publication information (these say “in an essay for Poetry for Students) document as follows:

Hill, Pamela Steed. Poetry for Students. Ed. Mark K. Ruby. Vol. 7. Detroit: Gale, 2000. 73 – 76.

Print.

If you use information from a previously published critical essay with a named author, document as follows:

Doherty, Paul C. “The Poet as Historian: ‘For the Union Dead’ by Robert Lowell.” Concerning

Poetry 1.2 (1968): 37 – 40. Rpt. in Poetry for Students. Ed. Mary K. Ruby. Vol. 7.

Detroit: Gale, 2000. 78 – 80. Print.

Works Cited Entries for articles retrieved through GaleNet Discovering Collection, Student Resource Center, or LiteratureResourceCenter:

Essay originally published in a periodical:

Last Name, First Name Middle Initial. “Title of Essay.” Title of Periodical Volume.Issue (Year): page range. Name ofDatabase. Name of Service. Medium. Date of Access.

Example:

Stevens, Martin. “Juliet’s Nurse: Love’s Herald.” Papers on Language & Literature 2.3 (1966): 195-206. DiscoveringCollection. Gale. Web. 30 March 2006.

Note: Some periodicals give on the first page number and not a full range of pages. In this case, you indicate the page numbers as the starting number and a plus sign (27+).

Essay originally published in a book:

Last Name, First Name Middle Initial. “Title of Essay.” Title of Book. Ed. First Name Last Name (if given). Place of Publication (if given): Name of Publisher (if given), Year of Publication (if given). PageRange (if given). Name of Database. Name of Service. Medium. Date of Access.

Example:

Stoll, Elmer Edgar. “Lecture 1: Romeo and Juliet.”Shakespeare’s Young Lovers. Ed. Frank Jones. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1937. 1-44. Discovering Collection. Gale. Web. 30 March 2006.

For articles retrieved through Galileo – Follow the same instructions as above, except the database is Galileo and the service provider is EBSCOhost.