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Assignment: Writing Your Working Bibliography

You should have been gathering ten (10) potential sources for your research paper and writing notes. This list should look like a works cited list, but it is actually the working bibliography—sources that you might be able to use as evidence in your research paper.

Set your paper up according to MLA as if you are writing an actual works cited page, although the work is a bibliography. The title of this assignment is "Working Bibliography." Type a copy of your "potential sources." You should have at least ten of these. The sources should be a variety of magazines, scholarly journals, books, etc. Do not use listservs, chats, Facebook, Twitter, e-mails, blogs, and Wikkipedia as sources. In addition, your sources should be reliable. Make sure to follow the conventions of MLA and your textbook. Upload your work as an attachment. A works cited example is found in your textbook. Follow the conventions.

Remember to do the following:

1. Alphabetize by the author’s last name. Don’t include the person’s degree’s title before or after the name, for example, Dr. or M.D

2. If you have no author, begin with the title of the source.

3. When the title begins with "a, an, the," you should alphabetize by using the next important word in the title.

4. Books may be italicized or underlined.

5. Articles are enclosed in quotation marks.

6. Use your text for citing sources properly from chapter 35. Follow the formats and punctuation.

7. Abbreviate the publisher’s name.

8. Abbreviate months except May, June, and July.

9. If you have no publisher’s name, use the abbreviation (n. p.).

10. If you have no page number, use the abbreviation (n. pag.).

11. If you have no city where the source was published, use the abbreviation (n. p.).

12. Don't number the entries.

13. Double-space the entire document.

14. Use a hanging indention.