My Professor’s directions:
Preliminary Working Bib
Working Bibliography
A Working Bibliography, as you know, is a preliminary list of sources that you are researching. In this case, I am using it to look over what you have found so far, which assures me (and you) that there will be plenty of useful material on the narrowed topic you chose.
I would like to see an alphabetized list of your sources (as you did for your last two papers, only this time correctly cite them). Include a short summary of the content of each source under each bibliographic listing. The Working Bibliography should include at least eight sources, which represent a variety of types of sources, e.g. books, reference materials, magazine, journal and Internet sources. Remember that online journals and magazines are considered published material, but websites are not. If you do not know the difference, please ask.
The very nature of research requires that once you have a research question that you are seeking answers to, you must look in a variety of places to gather as much information as possible. The Internet is a wonderful tool, but it is still very limited in the amount of substantive materials that can be obtained for free. For example, only about 8% of all journals are on the Web. That means that over 90% of the published material on any given subject is still in the library! Book sources as well as reviews and critiques of important books are often not reflected anywhere on websites (Amazon’s reader responses to books does not count as scholarly research!). The reference section of any library is a vast storehouse of data and factual information on everything from world populations to Civil War generals to day-by-day accounts of important periods of history to background information on the top 500 corporations in the U.S.
As a researcher, if you ignore this wealth of library material for the ease and comfort of the Internet, you are cheating both yourself and your reader out of the best and most accurate information available on your subject. Your job is not to find an author who says exactly what you want to say and then use her hard work to write your paper, but to compile a wide variety of information from a number of different types of sources and then make sense of it all yourself.
For instance, if you want to write a paper on the value of women police officers for a law enforcement agency, you can’t just go to a book about women police officers and a few websites promoting equal opportunity for women. Those would be valuable, but you also ought to go to some statistical information in reference books or databases about the numbers of women on any given police force, their pay, their opportunities for advancement, etc. You would want to look at books(don’t forget about e-books in the Shake Library) on the nature of police work today in order to counter the argument that it is too “physically demanding” for women. You would want to cite sociological studies that suggest that often women’s superior language skills preclude the need for violence in negotiating with criminals, etc.
Good research means you mine the entire field surrounding your research topic, not just the little hole you’re digging.
In the Working Bib, you should include with your preliminary eight resources, a brief summary of the source’s content under each bibliographic entry on the page. Try to put each source into proper format as you would on the WC page, but remember this is just a preliminary look for me at the sources you have been able to gather so far for your research on this topic.Preliminary Working Bib
Working Bibliography
A Working Bibliography, as you know, is a preliminary list of sources that you are researching. In this case, I am using it to look over what you have found so far, which assures me (and you) that there will be plenty of useful material on the narrowed topic you chose.
I would like to see an alphabetized list of your sources (as you did for your last two papers, only this time correctly cite them). Include a short summary of the content of each source under each bibliographic listing. The Working Bibliography should include at least eight sources, which represent a variety of types of sources, e.g. books, reference materials, magazine, journal and Internet sources. Remember that online journals and magazines are considered published material, but websites are not. If you do not know the difference, please ask.
The very nature of research requires that once you have a research question that you are seeking answers to, you must look in a variety of places to gather as much information as possible. The Internet is a wonderful tool, but it is still very limited in the amount of substantive materials that can be obtained for free. For example, only about 8% of all journals are on the Web. That means that over 90% of the published material on any given subject is still in the library! Book sources as well as reviews and critiques of important books are often not reflected anywhere on websites (Amazon’s reader responses to books does not count as scholarly research!). The reference section of any library is a vast storehouse of data and factual information on everything from world populations to Civil War generals to day-by-day accounts of important periods of history to background information on the top 500 corporations in the U.S.
As a researcher, if you ignore this wealth of library material for the ease and comfort of the Internet, you are cheating both yourself and your reader out of the best and most accurate information available on your subject. Your job is not to find an author who says exactly what you want to say and then use her hard work to write your paper, but to compile a wide variety of information from a number of different types of sources and then make sense of it all yourself.
For instance, if you want to write a paper on the value of women police officers for a law enforcement agency, you can’t just go to a book about women police officers and a few websites promoting equal opportunity for women. Those would be valuable, but you also ought to go to some statistical information in reference books or databases about the numbers of women on any given police force, their pay, their opportunities for advancement, etc. You would want to look at books(don’t forget about e-books in the Shake Library) on the nature of police work today in order to counter the argument that it is too “physically demanding” for women. You would want to cite sociological studies that suggest that often women’s superior language skills preclude the need for violence in negotiating with criminals, etc.
Good research means you mine the entire field surrounding your research topic, not just the little hole you’re digging.
In the Working Bib, you should include with your preliminary eight resources, a brief summary of the source’s content under each bibliographic entry on the page. Try to put each source into the proper format as you would on the WC page, but remember this is just a preliminary look for me at the sources you have been able to gather so far for your research on this topic.
*NOTE* Please see my attached pre-started Bibliography ideas.
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