An Astonishing Presentation

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An Astonishing Presentation on the subject of
bib cards
Really Known As Preliminary Bibliography Cards
11th Grade Honors English
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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

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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

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Materials Needed

• 3 x 5 index cards
• 4x 6 index cards
• Toner, disks, paper, etc.
• A fanatics organization skills
• A saints patience
• A writers desire for challenge
• A scholars insight

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Some Useful Terminology

• Primary sourcethe MAIN WORK (novel, play,
  poetry) you have chosen to write about
• Secondary sourcescomments by literary critics,
  book reviewers, others, ABOUT your main work or
  about issues related to it
• AnthologyA 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

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Whats 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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Why Do Bib Cards Now?

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

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

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Whats An Illegal 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.
  

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Sample Bib Card
Basic Book Format Main work
Location
Bib Card
Personal Copy
1/20
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Author
Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg, Ohio. New
York Penguin Putnam, Inc., 1992. Print.
Title
City, Pub, Date, medium (Not always needed)
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Sample Bib Card
Basic Book Format
Bib Card
Location and Call
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1/20
PHS Library 832.05 J
Author
Jacobs, Wilbur R. Benjamin Franklin,
Philosopher Or Materialist. Chicago Holt,
Rinehart, and Winston, 1998.
Title
City, Pub, Date, medium (Not always needed)
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Book with two or more authors
Sample Bib Card
Bib Card
Location and Call
2/20
LCCC 920 S
Author
Smith, Carl and John Weber. Exploring Gothic
Literature. Bloomington Indiana UP,
1985.
Title
City, Pub, Date, Medium (Not always needed)
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Book in a series with numbered volumes
Sample Bib Card
Bib Card
Location and call
PHS
9/20
Editors
Marowski, Daniel G. and Roger Matuz, eds.
Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 52.
Detroit Gale Research, Inc., 1989. Print.
Title
City, Pub, Date, Medium
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Sample Bib Card
Book in a series with titled volumes critical
anthologies, for example
Card
Location and Call
PHS/Access
3/20
Editor
Bloom, Harold, ed. Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Modern Critical Interpretations series. New
York Chelsea House Publishers, 1986.
Title
Series Title
City, Pub, Date, Medium
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Other Series That May Be Useful

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

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Other Books That May Be Useful

• Books discussing British/World literature in
  general (thematically or historically). For
  example, Leslie Fiedlers Love And Death In The
  British Novel
• A literary dictionary or two (for definitions of
  terms such as realism
• Magills 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 sources such as a psychology text
  (for facts about literary theory, for example)

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Sample Bib Card
Book with an edition number
Card
Location and call
Cedar Crest 555.61
5/20
Editor
Abrams, M.H., ed. A Glossary Of Literary Terms,
6th edition.Fort Worth Harcourt Brace
Publishers, 1993.
Title/edition
City, Pub, Date, Medium
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Sample Bib Card
Book with an edition number
Card
Location and call
LCCC
6/20
Editor
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter,
Critical Edition. ed. Carlos Mayo New
York Harcourt Brace Publishers, 1993.
Title/edition
City, Pub, Date, Medium
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Sample Bib Card
General Circulation Magazine/ Newspaper Article

Location
Bib Card
Cedar Crest
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Author
Smith, John. Honest, Pocahontas Did Save My
Life. Early Time. March 2, 1609 30-35. Print
Title
Name
Date Pages Medium
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Sample Bib Card
Previously Published Essay Reprinted in a
Collection
Bib Card
Location and call
Original Author
PHS
7/20
Roberts, Sheila. A Confined World A
Rereading of Pauline Smith.
Essay
Title
World Literature Written in English.
City ,Pub, Date, Page
New York Marshall Cavendish, 1980.232-238.
Title
Rpt. In Twentieth Century Literary
Criticism. Ed. Dennis Poupard. Vol. 25.
Detroit Gale, 1988. 399-402. Print.
Editor. Vol.
City ,Pub, Date, Page, Medium
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Sample Bib Card
ProfessionalMagazine or Scholarly Journal Article

Bib Card
Location and call
PHS
4/20
Author
Schulten, Katherine.Huck Finn Born To
Trouble. English Journal 89(November 1999)
55-59.
Title
Name/
Date/ Pages, Medium
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Other Useful Journals

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

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Sample Bib Card
Online reference service
Bib Card
Location
8/20
Online
Author
Bruner, Belinda. Pedagogy of the Undressed
Sherwood Andersons Kate Swift.Studies in
Short Fiction 36.4 (1999) 361. Literature
Resource Center. Web. 23 Feb. 2012.
Title
Original pub information
Service Date of Access
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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)

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Assignment Continued

• You may enter one biography of your author
• 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

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Congratulations! You have completed another
step of your research paper