Detailed Guidelines for Annotated Bibliography

for Middle English Literature and Chaucer courses.

Please use these guidelines in conjunction with the detailed guidelines for Individual Research papers, and the guidelines for Group and Individual Reports.

1. Use at least six secondary sources.

   • By "secondary source" I mean a scholarly article or chapter from a scholarly book.

   • No article or book should have been published for the first time before 1960.

2. At least four of those secondary sources must be articles published in scholarly journals which regularly publish research on medieval literature.

3. At least two of those articles must be from journals which Sprague Library does not own in paper copy (digital copy is OK).

   • You should use the MLA bibliography on-line to search for your scholarly materials. See the guidelines for the Individual Research Papers.

4. Consult my Research and Documentation Page for instructions about connecting  to other research libraries in this area, in order to find out which ones have the journal(s) and issues you are looking for.

5. List the articles in approved MLA format (you may find guidelines for that format on my Research and Documentation Page, above).

6. Write one short paragraph of at least three sentences, no fewer than eight or more than twenty lines, on each secondary source, giving its main thesis and your assessment of its use of evidence and argument.

7. Submit this annotated bibliography in two forms:

   • in printed form, to me at the end of the semester or when you submit your Individual Research Paper;

   • in electronic form, emailed to the class list.

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