RHETOR R1B: Rhetoric of Reason

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To help you write an annotated bibliography for two scholarly articles that you will research in conjunction to your final paper. For your final paper, you are asked to write on only one of the following texts: Plato’s Republic, Books 6 and 7, Francis Bacon’s “New Atlantis,” Franz Kafka’s “A Report to an Academy” or Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

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Citing MLA

MLA citation style for poetry

For more examples, link to our e-book, Cite Right: A Quick Guide to Citation Styles, chapter 4 "MLA Style."

Annotated Bibliography

An annotated bibliography lists important works you will use in your research: articles, books, chapter, reports, etc.

Your annotations are not just summaries, but are meant to inform the reader why each work is significant, how it relates to other works on the subject, and how well it succeeds in its task.

Here are a couple of excellent online guides to preparing an annotated bibliography.

Last Update: December 20, 2012 12:07