Annotated Bibs

One of the requirements of this project is an annotated bib of 40 sources.
That means you will look at 80-100 sources to see what works for you based on your givens and you central questions.
Take a look at Purdue's OWL. It is a great resource and will give you some background on style.

This is a site from Cornell about how to evaluate sources. 

This is helpful from the University of Maryland.

The bib is not for me it is a tool for you to use. When you are working with this much material you need to be able to keep track of it. Let me give you an example.

My project is the movie Inherit the Wind.
There are several themes working at once in this project

• McCarthyism
• Darwinism
• Cold War 
• Change of medium from play to movie
• Intentions of the author 
• Interpretations of the audience
• The fictionalization of real people
• The fictionalization of a real event

My central questions are:

 "What happens when we exchange one historical moment to explain another? Is it ethical to fictionalize a historic moment like the Scope Monkey Trial to make a completely different political point 30 years after the fact? Does the author "owe" anything to the truth of history?"

So I saw the movie three times. Read the play before and after each viewing. Read reviews of the movie from the time period. Watched remakes of the movie. Read interviews by the playwrights. Read about McCarthyism (because that is what the play was about) Read about Darwinism and the Scope Monkey Trial (because that is the historical moment the play is based on) and THEN I started to write the paper. Get it? Before then I had nothing to say. I didn't know enough to say anything but puke out what other people have said before. You want to do something that only you can do because this is your interpretation.

So when I come across a source I can't just puke it down and say "There is my source!" You need to make a note (an annotation) about:

• What the source says
• How and where you plan to use this information
• Make note of the direct quote or your summary information of it
• Where to look (very important) Tell yourself the quote is on page three of 10 second paragraph. Trust me. You will be happier when you know where to find the things you have worked so hard to unearth. When the numbers get this high I guarantee you that you will not remember why you wanted to use something or what way important about it.
• If it is not an electronic source (gasp) then you will have to write it all down and make sure you get everything that you need. 

Any questions?