1. Working and Annotated Bibliographies
Step One: Select the Topic
Step Two: Preliminary Research in Authoritative Summaries
Step Three: Narrowing the Topic & Tentative Thesis Statement
and Now:
Step Four: Building a Working or Annotated Bibliography
(Input from Dr. James Tollett)

2. Step Four: Building the Annotated Bibliography
Provides an overview of sources available in a given library
Creates a targeted list and location of scholarly books, periodicals, and reference works to explore for Research Paper
Summarizes and Evaluates sources as to relevance to Thesis Statement
Allows for the Final Bibliography to be constructed

3. For Scholarly Works: Remember: Need footnotes or endnotes, and
A Bibliography based on the works of other scholarly research

4. For Books: Use Library Catalog

6. For Journals/Periodicals Use:
Theological Databases from the Database List on the Library Homepage
- ATLA Religion Database w/ATLASerials, Christian Periodical Index, Theological Journals Search, New Testament & Old Testament Abstracts, or the Encyclopaedia Judaica, or
Journals List (Subject area: Philosophy and Religion) from Journals List on Library Homepage

9. For Reference Works Use:
Library Handout, “ORU Theological Reference Books”
Search the online catalog, using the subject keyword search: church*, theolog*, Christian*, religi*, Bible, or missions with either encyclopedias or dictionaries
Also, Use New Credo & Gale Virtual Reference Databases
AND
Browse the shelves in the Reference Room, OR
Reference Books

10. For Additional Help in Finding Sources:
See the following two links from last week:
ORU Library Guide for GTHE 517
ORU Library Resources for Distance Learners, and/or
Talk to a Reference Librarian at the Reference Desk, and
When physically away from the Library:
Ask-A-Librarian: or or Distance Learner Library Services: or

11. Annotated Bibliography
Rouse, Ruth, and Stephen C. Neill, eds. A History of the Ecumenical Movement. Vol. 1, nd ed. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, This is an authoritative survey of the Ecumenical Movement, covering the period from the Reformation to It contains essays by main scholars in the field. This volume includes an extensive bibliography, an analytical subject index, and an author index. While this reference is very relevant to the thesis statement, volume 2, which covers the period (edited by Harold E. Fey; also published by Westminster Press, in 1970), will add even more to the paper. Thus, the two volumes taken together will be highly relevant to the thesis statement. Specifically, the historical information in these two volumes will be included in the background section of the paper.