1. Finding Secondary Sources and Building a Bibliography
U.S. Women’s History Paper

2. Secondary Sources
A secondary source is a book or article typically written by an academic or journalist several years after an event occurs
Should locate at least 6 secondary sources
Unpublished secondary sources or secondary sources ONLY online should not be used in this paper
More sources is always better than less sources
Keep track of where you find your sources
Zotero

3. Finding Books Berry Catalog Bibliography of Books
Inter-Library Loan (ILL)
WorldCat
Google Books

4. Finding Articles JSTOR Project MUSE America: History & Life
Journal Locator

5. Research Question
What types of questions are your secondary sources asking?
Answering your research question will become the foundation for your paper’s thesis.
Your research question should be placed at the TOP of your annotated bibliography.

6. Topic Summary
Short paragraph that describes the topic you will be conducting research on
Topic summary should provide some information on why the subject is important to the history of women
Topic summaries should be part of your annotated bibliography – they come after the research question, but before the book citations

7. Annotated Citations Separate primary sources from secondary sources
Use Turabian (Chapter 17) for proper citation format for bibliographies
Annotations should be short (1 or 2 sentences) and original descriptions of the book/article
If you cannot write an annotation because of a book/article hasn’t arrived from ILL, note that in your annotation and attach a copy of your ILL request page to the bibliography
A sample annotated bibliography can be found at the end of the paper guidelines

8. Annotated Bibliography
Bibliographies are due Monday, September 19