NoodleBib &
Annotated Bibliographies

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• What is an annotated bibliography

• NoodleBib practice

• NoodleBib tips

An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents followed by a brief descriptive paragraph. The purpose of the annotation or description is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited. Your annotation can include comments about the source's:

• Central theme

• Scope (information that is included or not included)

• Author (background, scholarship, or authority)

• Intended audience

• Relationship to another cited work on the topic

• Relevance to and treatment of the topic

See a sample annotated bibliography about United States First Ladies.

Get more tips for writing an annotated bibliography:

• Purdue University Online Writing Lab

• St. Cloud State University

• University of South Florida

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NoodleBib practice

Practice using NoodleBib to create citations for these three common types of sources. When you have completed your three citations:

• Open your Works Cited page in Word

• Type your name at the top

• Print the page and turn it in to Ms. Hickson

1. Database

Today, you used JSTOR to find the article “Mark Twain and the American Myth” by Richard Calisch. The article was originally published in the October 1986 edition of The English Journal (Vol. 75, No. 6) on pages 160-163.

2. Essay in a book

You intend to quote David L. Smith’s essay “Huck, Jim, and American Racial Discourse,” which appeared on pages 103-123 in Satire or Evasion? Black Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn, edited by James S. Leonard, Thomas A. Tenney, and Thadious M. Davis. The book was published in 1992 by Duke University Press in Durham, NC.

3. Web page

Today you copied a quote from this web page:
 

http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=3637

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Properly cite your sources by using NoodleBib, an online citation maker from Noodle Tools (stop by the Media Center for password and log-in information).

What's the difference between a journal and a magazine?

Journals are often published by an academic or professional organization to advance knowledge in a particular discipline. Journals usually contain:

• Scholarly articles with abstracts and references (footnotes, in-text citations, bibliography)

• Scholarly vocabulary, including words and ideas that might be understood only by other experts on the topic

• Few photos, pictures, or ads

Magazines appeal to a general audience and usually:

• Do not include footnotes or references

• Include pictures, colorful design elements, decorative fonts, and ads

How do I identify the different citation components for a web site?

• URL: Enter the information that appears in the Address field of your web browser. If the URL is short enough that a reader could easily type it into a browser, select Unique URL.
  
  When a URL is very long and complex, you may provide the URL of the site's Search Page, if there is one. If you do this, be sure that the reader can find the specific Web page you are citing with a logical search from the search screen (for example, by searching on the author's name or the document's title).
  
  If no search page exists, cite the home page of the site instead, and then provide the Path (sequence of links to click on) to the content you are citing.
   

• Author: Frequently web sites do not name an author. If that's the case, leave that section of the NoodleBib form blank.
   

• Name of web site: Enter the name of the entire site, not just the title of the page. Usually the site name is found on the home page, and sometimes it's the portion of the URL that appears before .com, .org, or .net. For example, the site name for http://www.nhvweb.net/NHHS/ is North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District.
   

• Page or article title: Enter the title of the particular page you are citing. Frequently the title will be at the top of the web page. For example, the page name for http://www.nhvweb.net/NHHS/ is North Hunterdon High School.
   

• Sponsoring organization: Often, this field will be blank. If there is a sponsoring organization, you may find it on the home page or in the About section of the web site.

Tips for citing databases in NoodleTools
(MLA advanced mode)
 

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