Works Consulted (Bibliography) Helps:
Keep track of all
resources you use during your research. For each resource used, you create one
citation. Record all the citations in one place so you can find them again easily.
You might use a research journal your teacher gives you, or you can make a page
in your notes. That way creating the "Works Consulted" page will be
easy when you create your final draft. The links below will help you know
how to record information about different types of resources.
How do I make citations for resources I
used?
- Good Examples of citations http://www.hobbyhorsebooks.com/bibliography6.html
- More Good Examples http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citmla.htm
- Citing an online image of
series of images from OWL at Purdue http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html
- Books in Batchelor Media
Center: The Essentials of MLA Style by Joseph F. Trimmer [REF
808TRI] and MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers by Joseph
Gibaldi [808GIB]
Click here
to see a Works Consulted page from Valparaiso
High School in the final
draft form.
Additional helps: Many
electronic resources will give you the correct form for that resource. Look
around the page for help such as "To cite this page". For example:
- Look at the bottom of the page in Encyclopedia
Britannica, and copy/paste the information to your Works Consulted page.
- In Electric Library you can build the citation
from information provided at the top and bottom of the article. You will
need to add some information about the
date you accessed the page and the electronic resource used. See the
Modern Language Association link above to learn what you should add.
Why should I make a work consulted page?
- to keep track of good
information you will want to use during research.
- to keep track of bad information
so you won't waste time during research.
- to help others (teachers and
group members) find the resources you used.
- to give credit to the authors
for their ideas and words you may have used.
- to help you and others with
further research and future assignments.
- because it is required of writers and
researchers in schools, universities, and workplaces.
Revised 10/18/2004