An Astonishing Presentation on the subject of

Really Known As Preliminary Bibliography Cards

11 th Grade Honors English

To Begin With, Here Are the Basics Of The Research Paper Assignment

• Final paper will be 8-10 (+?) pages • Paper will be word-processed and formatted according to all instructions • Paper will 1. Contain a thesis of your own 2. Contain arguments of your own 3. Will frequently refer to your main work 4. And will be supported by evidence from your secondary sources: there MUST be a minimum of seven (7) outside sources in the paper

The Steps: An Overview

• Select main work (primary source) • Do a preliminary bibliographical survey to see what secondary sources are available based on a starting, formula thesis • Take notes on both main work and the secondary sources using the formula thesis as a guide • Revise the thesis as often as necessary, upon mutual agreement • Create an outline • Write the rough draft • Write and turn in the final paper

Materials Needed

• 3 x 5 index cards • 4x 6 index cards • Toner, disks, paper, etc.

• A fanatic ’ s organization skills • A saint ’ s patience • A writer ’ s desire for challenge • A scholar’s insight

Some Useful Terminology

• Primary source=the MAIN WORK (novel, play, poetry) you have chosen to write about • Secondary sources=comments by literary critics, book reviewers, others, ABOUT your main work or about issues related to it • Anthology=A book that has an editor who has selected many secondary sources for you and packaged them in one book for you. That is, the book contains 10-15 critical essays.

• Critical essay= An article, book review, in which a professor, reporter, etc., gives his/her theories about the main work or the author

What

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s A Bibliography Card?

• Just a 3 x 5 index card • But it contains all of the information necessary to find a single book, magazine, online page, etc., when you take notes • And the information needed to write an entry in the final Works Cited List of your paper • In other words, these cards are “ keepers ” - you will add to them and use them through the whole process

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To search NOW so that you can concentrate on the notetaking later

Why Do Bib Cards Now?

• To know NOW if there ’ s enough information available about a work you are considering making your project • To become familiar with what ’ s out there--all scholars do a literature search first • To evaluate if there will be too much competition for materials

What

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s An

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Illegal

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source for our purposes?

• Any source your instructor bans!

• Cliffs/Spark Notes or its kin (Pink Monkey, etc.) • Another research paper , online or otherwise • Encyclopedia articles • Gale Literature Resource Center

Overviews, but full Gale articles are fine.

Basic Book Format Main work

Location

Sample Bib Card

Personal Copy

Bib Card #

Author Title City, Pub, Date, medium (Not always needed)

Anderson, Sherwood.

Winesburg, Ohio.

New York: Penguin Putnam, Inc., 1992. Print.

Basic Book Format

Sample Bib Card

Location and Call # Bib Card #

Author Title City, Pub, Date, medium (Not always needed)

PHS Library 832.05 J 1/20 Jacobs, Wilbur R.

8

Benjamin Franklin, Philosopher Or Materialist.

Chicago: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1998.

Book with two or more authors

Sample Bib Card

Location and Call # Bib Card #

Author Title City, Pub, Date, Medium (Not always needed)

LCCC 920 S 2/20 Smith, Carl and John Weber.

Exploring Gothic Literature.

Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1985.

Book in a series with numbered volumes

Sample Bib Card

Location and call # Bib Card #

Editors Title City, Pub, Date, Medium

PHS Marowski, Daniel G. and Roger Matuz, eds.

Contemporary Literary Criticism

, Vol. 52.

Detroit: Gale Research, Inc., 1989. Print.

9/20

Book in a series with titled volumes: critical anthologies, for example

Sample Bib Card

Location and Call #

PHS/Access

Editor Title Series Title City, Pub, Date, Medium

Card #

3/20 Bloom, Harold, ed.

Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Modern Critical Interpretations series.

New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986.

Other Series That May Be Useful

• Twentieth Century Interpretations Of • Twentieth Century Views • Modern Literature monographs • Twayne ’ s U.S. Authors • Contemporary Authors In Christian Perspective • Major Literary Characters (Bloom) • Critical Essays on American Literature • Modern Critical Views

Other Books That May Be Useful

• Books discussing British/World literature in general (thematically or historically). For example, Leslie Fiedler ’ s

Love And Death In The British Novel

• A literary dictionary or two (for definitions of terms such as “ realism ” • • Magill ’ s Survey Of series (Poetry, Drama, Science Fiction) Look here for info about a genre--sci fi, gothicism, etc.

• Critical editions of your main work “ Back Door text (for facts about literary theory, for example) ” sources such as a psychology

Book with an edition number

Sample Bib Card

Location and call # Card #

Editor Title/edition

Cedar Crest 5/20 555.61

Abrams, M.H., ed.

A Glossary Of Literary Terms,

6th edition.Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Publishers, 1993.

City, Pub, Date, Medium

Book with an edition number

Sample Bib Card

Location and call # Card #

Editor Title/edition

LCCC 6/20 Hawthorne, Nathaniel.

The Scarlet Letter, Critical Edition.

ed. Carlos Mayo New York: Harcourt Brace Publishers, 1993.

City, Pub, Date, Medium

General Circulation Magazine/ Newspaper Article

Sample Bib Card

Location

Bib Card #

Cedar Crest 15

Author Title Name Date Pages Medium

Smith, John.

“ Honest, Pocahontas Did Save My Life.

” Early Time.

March 2, 1609: 30-35. Print

Previously Published Essay Reprinted in a Collection

Sample Bib Card

Location and call # Bib Card # Original Author Essay Title City ,Pub, Date, Page Title Editor. Vol. # City ,Pub, Date, Page, Medium

PHS Roberts, Sheila. “ A Confined World: A Rereading of Pauline Smith.

”

World Literature Written in English.

Detroit: Gale, 1988. 399-402. Print.

7/20 New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1980.232-238. Rpt. In

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism.

Ed. Dennis Poupard. Vol. 25.

Professional Magazine or Scholarly Journal Article

Sample Bib Card

Location and call #

Bib Card # Author Title Name/ Date/ Pages, Medium

PHS 4/20 Schulten, Katherine.

“ Huck Finn: Born To Trouble. ”

English Journal

89(November 1999): 55-59.

Other Useful Journals

• Modern Novel • Modern Fiction Studies • College English • PMLA • Lots of others--see Ebsco

Online reference service

Sample Bib Card

Location

Bib Card #

Online 8/20

Author Title Original pub information Service Date of Access

Bruner, Belinda. “ Pedagogy of the Undressed: Sherwood Anderson’s Kate Swift .

“

Studies in Short Fiction

36.4 (1999): 361+.

Literature Resource Center.

Web. 23 Feb. 2012.

Your Assignment

• Date due__February 11, 2013______ • Find at least 20 potentially useful and available sources of information for your paper and create a bibliography card for each • At least one card MUST be a card for your main work (primary source)

Assignment Continued

• You may author enter one biography of your • You may enter one literary dictionary • The rest should be cards to books, magazines, newspapers, or approved online sources such as Gale (At least 7 must be print resources) • Cards may include trial websites you believe will be useful and want permission to use

Congratulations!

You have completed another step of your research paper