Instructions for Reading and Annotating Sources Where to look in the textbook (Hacker) for help: Annotated bibliography sample pp 432-33 (pp 410-11 older book). For each of the sources that you find through Troy U., you create an entry for the annotated bibliography 1. At the top page will be the Works Cited entry, correctly written and formatted. 2. A brief summary of the main idea of the whole article (1-5 sentences). 3. Next, state the main idea of every paragraph in one sentence (or more if needed). Number each summary with the number of the corresponding article paragraph. 4. List a quotation from the article that you will use in your essay, either to support your position or one that you want to argue against. Make sure that you write the exact words AND put quotation marks around them. 5. Paraphrase the quotation in your own words. Print out each source to hand in. Save a copy to work with. I will not hand these printouts until the essays are graded. Print out the complete article to hand in; then a. number each paragraph b. highlight a quotation that you will use (I recommend setting print quality at fast or draft to conserve ink and two-sided printing to conserve paper) See Bb Argument folder for an example of how to number and highlight. The article you see is the one that I wrote the model annotated bibliography entry for below. Model Annotated Bibliography Entry Let’s say that you are writing an essay on Emily Dickinson’s poem “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died” and are interested in understanding more about what “the King” means. You found the following article to help you: Katrina Bachinger’s "Dickinson's I HEARD A FLY BUZZ." See on the next page an example of how you would do an annotated bibliography entry and paragraph summaries. The article I used is the example I gave for How to Print and Number a Source. Student Name Teacher Name Class Name Date Annotated Bibliography Entry 1. Works Cited Item: Bachinger, Katrina. "Dickinson's I HEARD A FLY BUZZ." Explicator, vol. 43, no. 3, Spring 1985, pp. 13-15. Academic Search Complete, web.b.ebscohost.com.libproxy.troy.edu/. Accessed 10 Feb. 2015. 2. Main idea of entire article In this article, Bachinger argues that Dickinson professes her faith in the Christian afterlife. 3. The main idea of each paragraph given: Paragraph 1: The author of this article, Katrina Bachinger, opens by referring to an earlier article by George Monteiro, who was interested in the connection between the ideas of fly and king. George Monteiro found out that, according to folklore, kings did not kill flies at the dinner table because, supposedly, flies took the place of nails at the Crucifixion and spared Christ some pain. 2. Bachinger agrees with Monteiro that the fly has a religious meaning, because of Job 18:14; also Bachinger says that ED is responding to ideas of a 17th century preacher. 3. The preacher, John Donne, gave a sermon at the funeral of Sir William Cockayne; the point of the sermon was to prove that, after a person dies, the body will be resurrected (the Bible; 1 Cor 15:29). 4. In his sermon, Donne refers to the Bible, John 11:20-27, where Martha tells Jesus that her brother Lazarus would not have died if Jesus had come while Lazarus was sick. Jesus tells Martha that Lazarus will live again, but Martha is not comforted. Martha says, “I know Lazarus will live again at the Resurrection, but I want him to still be alive here on earth.” Jesus tells Martha, “I am life; anyone who believes that I am who I say I am will never die. Do you believe what I am saying?” In other words, Donne is saying that the Bible is true when it claims that there is life after death. Bachinger thinks that ED read Donne’s sermon, and agreed with it. She made the speaker of her poem be a person experiencing the very moment of death, both alive and dead at the same time. The fact that the speaker can recall all the details of her life proves that she passes into the afterlife as a real person, the same person who lived on earth before her death. 5. Bachinger argues that “Death is thus a moment when the King of Terrors” [death] “is defeated by the King of Kings [Christ the Savior]. Bachinger interprets “the last Onset” as the resurrection. 6. Dickinson might also have known a poem by Byron, where the speaker is afraid of death, the King of terrors, but tells himself to “fly” away from that thought. 7. Bachinger also notes that ED would have known the poems that Donne wrote after he himself had recovered from a dangerous illness, where he calls death a birth, a returning to life. 8. Dickinson’s stanza 3 exactly parallels Donne’s Sermon 78. 9. Bachinger interprets ED to mean that at the exact same moment the speaker dies (windows fail) and sees the fly (is in heaven, looking down at the fly). 10. Bachinger interprets the poem to mean that ED agrees with Donne that God “has made little things to signify the great.” The presence of the fly means that the dying/dead speaker lives on in the afterlife. 4. Quotation: Katrina Bachinger, having shown that Emily Dickinson had access to a copy of Donne’s sermons on the resurrection of the body, asserts, “And in the Christian tradition, as in Donne’s writings, the Lord is commonly titled the King of Kings. Death is thus a moment when the King of Terrors is defeated by the King of Kings, and the equanimity with which Dickinson’s narrator awaits death strongly suggests that the king who is to be ‘witnessed’ then is as much or more the Lord as he is Death” (14). 5. Paraphrase of quotation. Putting together the three facts--that Donne’s sermons assume that a person experiences resurrection at the moment of death, that Christians refer to their Savior as the King of Kings, and that the speaker of Dickinson’s poem is a person at the moment of death who is calmly waiting for the arrival of a ‘King’’, Bachinger concludes that Dickinson’s speaker is expecting not Death as the Grim Reaper, but Christ the Savior.
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