What
is the difference between a Bibliography and a Working Bibliography?
Often you'll
hear someone correctly refer to a listing of sources as a bibliography.
This is not, however, to be confused with a working bibliography.
As you do research,
you'll want to make notes of several sources that might be useful
for your paper. MLA recommends that you use index cards to note
interesting sources so that you can easily add to or delete various
works and can arrange them in any appealing order. Don't forget
to copy down all publication information. It might also help to make
a few notes about the work so that you'll remember what interested
you about that source. Only the works that you use when
writing the paper will be compiled and presented in your Works Cited
page.
I
once heard of an Annotated Bibliography. Is
that the same as a Working Bibliography?
No, it's not the same. An Annotated Bibliography (also known as an
Annoted List of Works Cited) is formatted just like a normal
bibliography. However, there is a brief and critical commentary about
the work.
Morehouse, Dillon. Timetables
of Scandal. New York: Dryden, 1987. An illustrated
survey of various periods of political upheaval from the early
medieval ages to the modern era (1066 to 1980). |
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