{"id":3290,"date":"2017-10-12T20:59:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T20:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/?page_id=3290"},"modified":"2017-10-27T18:38:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T18:38:29","slug":"annotated-bibliography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/assignments\/avant-garde-writer-project\/annotated-bibliography\/","title":{"rendered":"Annotated Bibliography"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Annotated Bibliography<\/h5>\n<p>category: AG Bibliography<\/p>\n<p>Prepare a bibliography of 15-30 primary, secondary, and tertiary sources on your subject:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Finding Sources:<\/strong><\/span> As soon as possible, you should begin identifying and collecting your sources. Many of the figures you&#8217;ve chosen are fairly obscure or new, and you may need to do some sleuthing to track down information. Do not delay your research: you may find that your sources are not available or are only available through interlibrary loan. Also, don\u2019t wait until you having difficulties to consult a librarian or ask me for help. If you can\u2019t find sources, you may need to choose a different figure or widen the scope of your research. Use <a href=\"http:\/\/davidson.libguides.com\/zotero\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zotero<\/a> to organize your sources in one folder.\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Primary sources<\/strong> <\/span>are works by your avant-garde writer or historical sources from the same period, including reviews, memoirs, newspaper articles, etc&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Secondary sources<\/strong><\/span> are works about your avant-garde writer by critics, scholars, and historians.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Tertiary sources<\/strong><\/span> are reference works such as encyclopedias and dictionaries (although you may consult wikipedia, restrict yourself to articles found in subscription databases such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/davidson.libguides.com\/c.php?g=349291&amp;p=2357088\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gale Virtual Reference Library<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Evaluating Sources:<\/strong><\/span> The research stage involves evaluating your sources. Seek out authoritative, credible sources. Remember that, when it comes to secondary and tertiary sources, you are only as good as the company you keep: invoking writers whose opinions are not well respected, or selecting online sources for ease of reference, will drag down your credibility.\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">Consider the date of publication of any sources, too. Make sure your sources reflect the most up-to-date and reliable information on the subject. If you include older sources, they should be influential sources that continually get cited in subsequent articles and books.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Determining Relevance:<\/strong><\/span> The research stage also involves deciding which sources seem most relevant. At this stage, evaluation usually involves skimming the index, the introduction or preface, and any potentially relevant chapters or sections. As you narrow down your\u00a015-30 sources, aim for a combination of primary sources, encyclopedia entries, and scholarly books and articles that can help you to give the most complete picture of who your figure was, what your figure created, and how his or her work has been interpreted.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Citing Sources:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0An annotated bibliography involves the citation of each source in MLA format.\u00a0Use <a href=\"http:\/\/davidson.libguides.com\/zotero\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zotero<\/a> to generate a bibliography in MLA Style, but remember to check each entry for errors and omissions. Zotero often makes mistakes; you don&#8217;t want to.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Summarizing Sources<\/strong><\/span>: An annotated bibliography involves following the citation of each source with a brief (one double-spaced paragraph) summary and analysis of the source. If your entry is a primary source, you may describe and analyze it. If your entry is a secondary or tertiary source, you should summarize it. Summaries should identify each source\u2019s thesis, motives, and evidence.\n<ol>\n<li><strong>DO NOT just describe<\/strong> what the source is about, e.g.: \u201cthis article discusses Beatrice Wood\u2019s relationships to other women in the avant-garde\u201d (in which case I have no idea what the article actually says).<\/li>\n<li><strong>DO give a substantive summary<\/strong>, e.g.: \u201cthis article argues that Beatrice Wood\u2019s relationship to other women in the avant-garde, such as Louis Norton and Clara Tice, were as important to her work as Marcel Duchamp and the other more celebrated male figures she consorted with\u201d (in which I understand the substance of argument.<\/li>\n<li>Read\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/readings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">They Say\/I Say<\/a><\/em> for advice on how to write a\u00a0<strong>purposeful summary\u00a0<\/strong>that is accurate and true to the original, but reflects your emphasis on a specific avant-garde figure.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Formatting Sources<\/span>:<\/strong> At the top of your post, indicate the figure you are researching. Divide your bibliography into three sections: 1) primary sources, 2) secondary sources, 3) tertiary sources. Within each section, arrange your sources alphabetically according to authors\u2019 last names, and begin your summaries immediately following the citations. Follow the MLA citation format for a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/owl.english.purdue.edu\/owl\/resource\/747\/05\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Works Cited<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Questions for Evaluating &amp; Summarizing Sources<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Relevance: is the source closely related to the topic of your research? Does the source address your figure directly?<\/li>\n<li>What is the author\u2019s argument, point of view, or approach? Does the author have an obvious bias? What is the author\u2019s tone?<\/li>\n<li>What experts or studies do the authors call upon to support their claims?<\/li>\n<li>What arguments do they defend their claims against?<\/li>\n<li>What kind(s) of evidence are used? How accurate is the information? How well does the source credit its own sources?<\/li>\n<li>What are the author\u2019s credentials?<\/li>\n<li>When was the work published?<\/li>\n<li>Who is the audience &#8212; was the source written for the general public? specialists?<\/li>\n<li>Is the work published by a reputable company? If a periodical, what kind: academic? literary? art historical? popular?<\/li>\n<li>How comprehensive is the information? Have the best available resources been used?<\/li>\n<li>If using a digital source, who has posted the document: an individual? a journal? an institution? Is the source peer-reviewed and\/or respected in the academic community?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Sample\u00a0Annotated Bibliography Entry<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Topic: \u00a0\u201cGender and Contemporary Confessional Literature\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gammel, Irene, Ed. Confessional Politics: Women\u2019s Sexual Self-Representations in Life Writing and Popular Media. \u00a0Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999. This collection of essays explores the connections between sexuality and women\u2019s literary, artistic, and media-based confessions. Gammel argues that the tradition of confession is patriarchal, but that recently \u201cthe confession has become a specifically female discursive practice\u201d (1). \u00a0The essays largely share a feminist perspective, investigating how women \u00a0\u201cshape the telling of their sexual stories in order to resist, manipulate, and negotiate\u201d confessional conventions, and positing that such acts are political (7-8). Organized into three sections \u2014 body politics, sexual trauma, and negotiating identity \u2014 the essays focus particular attention on how women use confession to transgress sexual norms and to resist sexual victimization and shame. Most essays involve interpretation and analysis of contemporary literary and cultural texts (poetry, memoirs, talk shows, film, performance art); in their reliance on literary theory, they are clearly aimed at a scholarly audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annotated Bibliography category: AG Bibliography Prepare a bibliography of 15-30 primary, secondary, and tertiary sources on your subject: Finding Sources: As soon as possible, you should begin identifying and collecting your sources. 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