This assignment will be about an author that you pick in class (absent? email me to get your author). Since most college classes use either MLA or APA, it would be prudent to be familiar with both. Consider this one more opportunity to learn. If that doesn't cut it, try one more chance to bring your grade up. Or perhaps you'd like to look at is as one last hoop to jump through before graduation. Of course, you could just look at it as an example of rule #5.
You will produce an annotated bibliography using APA and deliver a speech, both about the author you chose.
The List of Authors
Geoffrey Chaucer
George Orwell
George Eliot
Sir Thomas Malory
C. S. Lewis
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
J. R. R. Tolkien
Jonathan Swift
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Sir Philip Sydney
Alexander Pope
Robert Browning
Edmund Spenser
Samuel Johnson
Emily Bronte
Christopher Marlowe
William Blake
William Golding
Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dante Rossetti
John Donne
William Wordsworth
Christina Rossetti
Ben Jonson
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lewis Carroll
Aldous Huxley
H. G. Wells
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Herrick
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Oscar Wilde
Andrew Marvell
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ruyard Kipling
John Milton
John Keats
H. Rider Haggard
Sir John Suckling
Mary Shelley
William Butler Yeats
Jane Austen
Bram Stoker
James Joyce
The APA Author Annotated Bibliography
An annotated bibliography is much like an MLA works cited page, except that it does not accompany a paper, gives information from the the source, and is done using APA format instead of MLA. Your professors might require you to source your paper using APA format. It is not too much different from MLA, but it is some, and I want you to be familiar with it, just in case. The biggest difference is the lack of capitals in APA titles. You will need to use 6 different sources. One must be a web site. One must be a book. The other four can be anything (more books, more web sites, a personal interview, a magazine, an Internet database, etc.). You will get extra credit if you use four different types of sources. There is a guide sheet that you will complete online for this assignment.
You will also include about 3-5 lines of text (using Arial 11 point font) detailing some of the information you found about that author from that source.
You will also include how to in-text that source if you were writing a research paper.
Bibliography is due: Friday, 1/9/15 by end of fourth period. No late submissions.
How do I do APA?
Share only when you are ready for me to grade it.
Sample Paper
The Author SpeechThe speech will be 2 minutes long. You will give good information about that author to the class. You will be graded on the following:
The speech will be given Thursday, 1/8/15. Speeches given on Friday (unless we run out of time) will get a 7 point penalty. Speeches given on exam review periods (for 2nd and 3rd periods) will get a 14 point penalty.
What information should I give in my speech? Well, consider any of the following:
Nervous? Try these tips: http://www.aresearchguide.com/3tips.html
You will produce an annotated bibliography using APA and deliver a speech, both about the author you chose.
The List of Authors
Geoffrey Chaucer
George Orwell
George Eliot
Sir Thomas Malory
C. S. Lewis
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
J. R. R. Tolkien
Jonathan Swift
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Sir Philip Sydney
Alexander Pope
Robert Browning
Edmund Spenser
Samuel Johnson
Emily Bronte
Christopher Marlowe
William Blake
William Golding
Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dante Rossetti
John Donne
William Wordsworth
Christina Rossetti
Ben Jonson
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lewis Carroll
Aldous Huxley
H. G. Wells
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Herrick
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Oscar Wilde
Andrew Marvell
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ruyard Kipling
John Milton
John Keats
H. Rider Haggard
Sir John Suckling
Mary Shelley
William Butler Yeats
Jane Austen
Bram Stoker
James Joyce
The APA Author Annotated Bibliography
An annotated bibliography is much like an MLA works cited page, except that it does not accompany a paper, gives information from the the source, and is done using APA format instead of MLA. Your professors might require you to source your paper using APA format. It is not too much different from MLA, but it is some, and I want you to be familiar with it, just in case. The biggest difference is the lack of capitals in APA titles. You will need to use 6 different sources. One must be a web site. One must be a book. The other four can be anything (more books, more web sites, a personal interview, a magazine, an Internet database, etc.). You will get extra credit if you use four different types of sources. There is a guide sheet that you will complete online for this assignment.
You will also include about 3-5 lines of text (using Arial 11 point font) detailing some of the information you found about that author from that source.
You will also include how to in-text that source if you were writing a research paper.
Bibliography is due: Friday, 1/9/15 by end of fourth period. No late submissions.
How do I do APA?
- APA for a Book
- APA for a Web Site
scroll way down to "Nonperiodical Web Document or Report" - APA for Other Sources
find your source type on the left hand side - either printed (actual paper)or non-print (Internet) - APA In-text
- More APA Help
- I can't find some of the information! Now what?
Share only when you are ready for me to grade it.
Sample Paper
The Author SpeechThe speech will be 2 minutes long. You will give good information about that author to the class. You will be graded on the following:
- time
- good information
- ability to capture interest
- good speaking skills (i.e. not looking at notes entire time, not saying “um…” or other speech breaks, annunciation, confidence, etc.)
The speech will be given Thursday, 1/8/15. Speeches given on Friday (unless we run out of time) will get a 7 point penalty. Speeches given on exam review periods (for 2nd and 3rd periods) will get a 14 point penalty.
What information should I give in my speech? Well, consider any of the following:
- basic life details (born, died, etc.)
- what style of writing was he or she known for?
- give titles or characters that they are famous for creating
- any scandals or interesting life happenings?
- one of the male names is really a female in disguise
- many were drug addicts
- some were homosexuals and aetheists during times that you could be killed for that
- two of the names on this list are possibly the real author of Shakespeare's works
- one author dug up his dead wife just so he could get some poems he buried with her to publish
- one became famous for writing a book as a challenge from his brother
- one kept her husband's heart on her shelf for over ten years
-one really loved his sister - I mean really loved
-one is guilty of attempted rape
-some were artists who wrote poetry on the side (visuals would be great for these guys) - were the popular during their own time?
Nervous? Try these tips: http://www.aresearchguide.com/3tips.html