brief notes on 1. assignment writing
2. working bibliography
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A working bibliography includes the sources
that you discover in your initial inquiry into a topic. It is your first step after
deciding on a preliminary topic for a paper. The working bibliography includes all
sources that you discover as you begin your research. They may not all be used in
your final writing as the focus of your paper can change, you may find duplication
of what sources are saying, you may find too many sources.
As you discover these sources, be sure that you document all sources as to their
bibliographic information (what you will need for your References page). Make
any notes so that you can remember the significance of a source at a later time.
At this point you may not need to enter them in “perfect” APA formatting, but if
you do, you will just be that much farther ahead when you are writing the paper
and you will be sure to have all the necessary parts of the citation before you move
away from the source, e.g. web site, electronic database journal article, etc. You
might not even want to alphabetize them at this point but rather group them by the
kind of source, e.g. journal articles, books, web sites, interviews, etc.