What is a Bibliography A bibliography is a list of books that you used to research a historical question Sometimes your teachers might call this list Sources or References What does Annotated mean ID: 164586 Download Presentation
What is a Bibliography?. . A bibliography is a list of books that you used to research a historical question. Sometimes your teachers might call this list “Sources” or “References.” . What does Annotated mean?.
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The Annotated Bibliography
Slide2
What is a Bibliography?
A bibliography is a list of books that you used to research a historical question. Sometimes your teachers might call this list “Sources” or “References.”
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What does Annotated mean?
An annotated bibliography has a few sentences about what you found in the book, website, magazine, or other resource that you listed.
The annotation might include
“This book has a chronology of events.”
or “This book explains that the Battle of Killdeer Mountain was one of the events that led to the Battle of the Little Big Horn.”
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How do I make a Bibliography?
Gather a thorough list of resources you used.
You will need all of the publication information for your resource (see slide #5).
Determine which of your resources is primary, and which is secondary.
Organize your resource alphabetically within your primary list and your secondary list.
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What publication information do I need?
Book
Author’s first and last name
Full title and sub-title of book
City where the book was published
Name of publishing company
Date of publication
Example
Thompson, Era Bell.
American Daughter
. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1986.
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What publication information do I need?
Magazine article
Author’s first and last name
Title of Article
T
itle of Magazine
Volume Number, Edition Number, Date published
Page numbers of article
Example
Schneider, Fred. “Oscar H. Will: North Dakota’s Pioneer
Seedman
.”
North Dakota History
Vol. 68, No. 1 (2001): 2-19.
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What publication information do I need?
Website
Title
if available
Author’s
name if available
Name
of sponsoring organization if available
URL
Date
you accessed the website
Example
“The Battle of Killdeer Mountain,” North Dakota Studies. ndstudies.gov/civil-war-era-north-
dakota
. Accessed April 15, 2013
.
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Citing Other Resources
Use a similar format for all your resources. What is important is:
title
author (or, perhaps, filmmaker)
date published.
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Annotating
The purpose of annotation is to help other scholars and researchers know what is valuable in each publication.
Slide10
Annotation
An annotated bibliography should be helpful. What you take from each publication will vary, but you should explain what you found in the publication that you are using in your National History Day Project.
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Annotated Bibliography Example
Calof
, Rachel.
Rachel
Calof’s
Story: Jewish Homesteader on the
Northern
Plains
. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
1995.
Rachel
Calof
was a Jewish immigrant from Russia.
She
and her husband settled on a farm near Devils Lake
in
the 1890s. They struggled for many years, but finally
succeeded
in raising a family on their farm.
Thompson, Era Bell.
American Daughter
. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1986. Thompson’s memoir describes growing up in Driscoll, North Dakota in the 1910s and 1920s. Thompson was an African-American girl in a community of mostly white people.
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Annotated Bibliography:Primary and Secondary
Both Era Bell Thompson’s and Rachel
Calof’s
memoirs are
primary sources
. These two women told their own story about their lives. You would place their books under the heading of Primary Sources
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Annotated Bibliography:Primary and Secondary
Our other two examples are both secondary sources. The Battle of Killdeer Mountain (website) and Fred Schneider’s article on Oscar Will are
secondary sources
. You would place their books under the heading of Secondary Sources.
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Annotated Bibliography Example
Schneider, Fred. “
Oscar H. Will: North Dakota’s
Pioneer
Seedman
.”
North Dakota History
Vol
. 68,
No
. 1 (2001): 2-19.
Schneider describes how Oscar Will established a plant nursery in Bismarck in 1885. Will learned about the seeds that the Mandan, Hidatsa, and
Arikara
planted. He propagated these seeds and sold them to people all over the United States.
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Summary of Annotated Bibliography
Keep notes on your resources.
Your notes include author, title, publication information
Your notes for a website should include title, author and sponsor if available, the URL, and the date you visited the website.
Your notes should include the important ideas you gained from that source.
Make two headings on your bibliography. One heading is Secondary Sources; the other heading is Primary Sources.
Enter publications into your bibliography with the correct information on publication
Write 2 or 3 sentences about why that resource was important for
