Annotate Or You're Too Late

* Open
  • Poems from you
* Work in Class
  • Tardy Quizzers (Pride and Prejudice)
  • Annotated Bibliography
    • 1/2 to 1 page
    • Each entry on a separate page
    • Credibility is essential to your secondary sources (scholarly sources). 
      • It may say "Stanford" or "Oxford"...but it is really the school, or is it a related group or city publisher riding the school's reputation? 
      • Look up the author's name.  Is the author a respected authority?  
      • For literature, basically any time-period can have relevance.  Even previous periods (such as Aristotle's ideas from Poetics) can be richly helpful.  
      • For science, the date is much more critical.  Freud was once considered a respectable authority.  Now he is not.  It was once scientific wisdom to bleed sick people; now it is not.  Consider. 
      • If you find your source isn't that credible, toss it. Get a better one.  
    • Credibility is not a concern with primary sources (your literary texts, the Bible, your own poems, etc.).  For these, you spend more time detailing how the text informs, relates to, supports your thesis. 
HW: See above