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English 101 Sections 15 and
16
Fall 2004
General Annotated
Bibliography Notes
Document Format
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See SMH 8e for general
document format. Note that your last name and the page number are to be on the
top right (½” from the top) of each page. In MS Word, click on View→ Header
and Footer→ type in your last name and click on the [#] icon. Ctrl-R right
aligns it. Click on the
&
icon to access page setup. Make sure that the header is ½” from the top of the
page. Margins should be 1” all around. The entire document is double spaced. |
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The Annotated Bibliography
for each set of readings should be one document, ordered as specified in SMH
20c. Citations are formatted as a hanging indent (½”) while the annotation is
formatted “normally.” Do not skip additional lines between citation and
annotation or between entries. Do not bold text or change the font sizes. |
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A sample annotated
bibliography entry is modeled in SMH 14i. See the Substantive/ Evaluative
example. Remember: your document still needs to be double spaced! |
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The title for your document
should indicate specifically what the document is—and may entertain or
pique interest. For the ABs, you may use the topic I’ve provided (e.g., title
your work “Scientific Perspectives on LGBT Lives: An Annotated Bibliography”),
or fashion one yourself, but it must indicate the topic and the fact that it
is a collection of AB entries. |
Citations
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Citations for articles
located via SCSU databases (JSTOR, ProQuest, etc.) need to follow the citation
format shown in SMH 20c #40. In essence, use MLA guidelines to cite as the
type of work (for example, for a newspaper article, you would begin the
citation following SMH 20c #29), then integrate the access information
(database, subscription service, general URL of the database [such as http://www.jstor.org;
it’s not necessary to include the precise URL as you would for, say, a web
page]). Follow the citation format precisely; this includes italicizing or
underlining where you’re supposed to. Don’t simply add an element if you’re
not sure where you’re supposed to find the information for that element. A
good example is the date of access for web sites; some people just add any
date, not realizing that it’s meant to be the date that they visited the site
in question. This can be amusing, especially if someone writes a citation in
which he or she accessed the site before it was even in existence.
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Grading
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The grade for each topic
is based on an average—the score for each entry received divided by the total
number of readings assigned. Therefore, if you only hand in three entries and
four were due, the HIGHEST grade you can earn is a 75. Additional points may
be deducted if formatting or order is incorrect. |
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The score for each entry is
based upon the following criteria:
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Correct MLA citation |
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Concise and accurate
summary of the text |
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Insightful analysis which
may address work in relationship to other readings, consideration of
alternative perspectives, or scrutiny of the arguments, assumptions, and
findings of the work. |
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If the article title is
incorrect or an important name (author’s, editor’s, main figure’s, your)
is misspelled, I’ll stop reading it and return it to you (without a grade) for
proofing and revision. Ten points will be deducted from your final grade for
that topic’s Annotated Bibliography. |
IMPORTANT!
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While it should go without
saying, I will remind you that the work is to be your own. Do not appropriate
lines from the texts to use in your AB entry (especially if you are not citing
and using quotes); that’s not writing, it’s assembling. Do not use another’s
abstract or entry to write your own. Whether you intend to do so or not, close
paraphrasing or the direct use of another’s work is plagiarism, and
plagiarism, whether deemed intentional or unintentional, must be reported to
the Dean. |
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