a. Your bibliography must reflect the topic of your essay. This will reduce your workload and get you thinking early about your essay.
b. Compile your bibliography.6 sources.
c. Assemble and format your bibliography according to Joseph Gibaldi’s Modern Language Association Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. It is essential to the assignment that you consistently use this bibliographic style.
d. Annotate your bibliography. Each bibliographical entry plus its annotation should be a substantial paragraph. Your entries should be arranged in a recognizable and relevant order, i.e. hierarchically according to importance, chronologically/historically etc. You must provide me with a brief preface to your bibliography (of one paragraph) indicating your essay’s prospective thesis, a justification for the ordering your bibliography and a rationale for including the secondary sources you have chosen.
e. Method:howdoyougoaboutfindingmaterialrelevanttoyourtopic?
Here are some suggestions for getting started.
i. Browsing, on foot in the stacks and via the catalogue. The library’s web interface enables you to do sophisticated searches—learn to use them! Start here: http://libraryguides.binghamton.edu/cinema
ii. Bibliographies, indexes, and footnotes of other books, such as your textbook.
iii. Reference books. The library’s reference section has many film reference guides, dictionaries and bibliographies, and the reference staff are very approachable.
iv. Periodical indexes. Also available in the library are indexes like the Film Literature Index which lists journal and other articles according to author, filmmaker, subject, film title etc.
f. I would also want to chose you to write my main essay after this if interested .
g. if you need help assessing the Library guide contact me