WR 150 B2: Heroes, Saints and Martyrs
Professor Klepper
Fall 2004
The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to get you to identify, locate, and assess available resources for the shorter research paper. The bibliography should follow Chicago Style, and each entry should be followed by a short paragraph that is both descriptive and evaluative, explaining how this source (book, article, chapter from book) is relevant to your reserch and assessing its critical worth. These assignments should be written carefully and proofread for errors before being submitted. You will be sharing your bibliography with other students in the class as a way of developing a wide pool of resources for use in the shorter research paper. To that end, you must post your bibliography to the Courseinfo site prior to the start of class on Monday, October 18. Please save your bibliography as an htm document before posting, as that will enable it to launch within the courseinfo page on others' computer screens (without downloading a file). Please bring a hard copy of the bibliography to class as well for my comments.
You must use at least five independent sources in your research, one of which must be a journal article or essay and one of which must be an internet source. For help in evaluating web documents, see the following Cornell University site: Criteria and Tools for Evaluating Web Sites http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/webeval.html
Please remember that while encyclopedias of all kinds can be invaluable starting points, they are essentially summaries of existing scholarship, and you need to seek out that scholarship directly (ergo, they do not count as one of your five sources).