Research Procedure

1. Research Procedure Annotated Bibliography

2. Procedural Example Assigned Author: Jonathan Swift 1667-1745 B You know from the information here that your author, Jonathan Swift, was British and lived during the late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth centuries.

3. Procedural Example (continued) Source Possibilities European Authors Twentieth Century Authors Oxford Companion to _______Literature Interpretation Table _ computer source* special format needed (No mark) anthology

4. Procedural Example (continued) • You recognize that The Oxford Companion to English Literature could possibly be a good source of information. • You look it up in the library and find a worthwhile article on Swift’s life. • You recheck the “Source Possibilities” list and find no symbol beside the OxfordCompanion listing; therefore, it is an anthology according to the interpretive table at the bottom right of the handout. • You go to your Writer’s Reference and on page 371 under “Books” you see item #24 “One or more selections froman anthology,” 407.

5. Procedural Example (continued) • On page 407under “24. One or more selections from an anthology,” you find the following example of the proper heading for an anthology article: Brouwer, Joel. “The Spots.” Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century . Ed. Michael Dumanis and Cate Marvin. Louisville: Sarabande, 2006. 51-52. Print.

6. Procedural Example (continued) You gather from your source the following information: • Article title—”Swift, Jonathan” • Anthology title—The Oxford Companion to English Literature • Editor—Paul Harvey • Publishing information—New York: Oxford UP, 1967 • Pages of the article—791-793 • Writer of article—none indicated

7. Procedural Example (continued) With the model on page 407as a guide, you come up with the following heading for your anthology source: Harvey, Paul, ed. “Swift, Jonathan.” The Oxford Companion to English Literature. New York: Oxford UP, 1967. 791-793. Print. (There was no writer indicated for the article, but in cases like that in an anthology you are allowed to substitute the anthology’s editor’s name for the writer’s provided you place “Ed.” after the name.)

8. Research Process • Choose a source (from the “Source Possibilities” Blackboard handout) to get biographical information on your assigned author. • Go to the library, look up the source, and read over the information available on your author. • If it is useful information, go back to your “Source Possibilities” handout and find out what type of source you have (e.g. an encyclopedia, anthology, newspaper, magazine article, etc.).

9. Research Process (continued) • Once you have identified the type of source, open your Writer’s Reference text to page 371 and go to the indicated page number for the heading model you need for that exact source. • Go back to your source and pull out any information that is needed for the heading according to the model you found in Writer’s Reference. Follow the model exactly inserting information from your source into the proper place as well as punctuating, capitalizing, and spacing the material just as the model indicates.

10. Research Process (continued) • Once the heading is complete, begin to read the source taking notes on the important information and indicating in your margins the page or pages from which the material comes. • After your notes are completed, begin writing a draft of a paragraph summary of your found information in your own words.

11. Research Process (continued) • When the draft is completed, go over the writing to correct the grammar, punctuation, and spelling. • Type up the final draft of the entry (heading and paragraph summary), set it aside, and move on to the next source. Go back to the first step and begin the process all over again until you have collected at least the minimal number of entries (7 for Eng 111; 10 for Eng 112).