WORKS CITED/ WORKS CONSULTED/ ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2-06-02
As a discriminating and critical researcher, you will read many books, articles, and consult many Internet resources that you will not end up quoting in your project. You may decide that some of those resources are not relevant to your final argument, or perhaps not as authoritative as you'd like, or take positions that are not in keeping with your own. These are, nonetheless, important parts of the discovery process. Keep a list of the bibliographical information of all of the articles, books and other sources you look at.
A "Works Cited" page will include only the sources that you quote or paraphrase in your project. The "Works Consulted" page or a “Bibliography”, on the other hand, will include all of the sources you encountered. The latter will give the reader an idea of just how broad and thorough your research has been, and will lend to your authority on the subject.
Annotated Bibliography
After each MLA bibliographical entry, include a paragraph that summarizes the article. Be sure to include:
| v | purpose and scope of the article | |
| v | information on author's authority and credibility as well as his or her biases | |
| v | information that struck you as the most important or potentially useful. | |
Include articles that you did not end up quoting in the project, as well as those that take opposing positions. You are required to include at least 10 entries, but you may find it helpful to include more.
This list is usually called a Works Cited; however, a Works Consulted list or a Bibliography may be used if the writer wants to include information for the reader about sources which are relevant to the topic, but not directly "cited" or referred to in the paper itself. information.