Your working annotated bibliography of 10 credible and focused academic sources on the subject or

relevant context of your conference paper should be prefaced by a paragraph or paragraphs that explain

completely the focus of the bibliography, and, in turn, this paragraph will also serve as a mini abstract of

the argument in your conference paper. Each source should be succinctly, but completely, summarized

in a paragraph included under the corresponding MLA bibliographic citation.

Entries on your bibliography should primarily come from refereed sources (which may be accessed from

an online database such as Project Muse, EBSCO, and JSTOR—Search for databases by discipline on the

Library web page). Purely web-accessible sources (found through online search engines, for example)

are to be consulted skeptically and judiciously, although a few are acceptable. Your bibliography may

contain some works (but not nearly all) already listed on the syllabus, but your sources should extend

beyond merely relying on those I already found. I urge you to avoid Literature Resource Center in

favor of finding the full-text versions of all articles through the other online databases, but if LRC is

the only source for the article, then be aware of how you cite the citation. Reference works and the

primary work are not acceptable and should not appear on the bibliography. Way outdated or non-
scholarly/academic sources are also not acceptable, and I doubt a book review provides much, if any,

information. This assignment may require you to visit a college or university library, either Morehead’s

or some other. All conventions for the proper MLA formatting of individual citations specifically and

bibliographies as a whole should be followed.