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Assignment #5
1. What is your topic?
2. Using Granger's Index to Poetry look up the poem "I live my life in growing orbits."
• In what anthology can it be found?
• Who wrote the poem?
• Who translated the poem?
• Does SSU own the anthology?
• What is the call #?
3. Use any reference source to answer the following questions,
• What are spaghetti westerns?
• What source did you use? (include title and call number)
• How did you find the source - be specific.
• Cite the information you found using MLA citation format.
4. Using Contemporary Authors find information on James Joyce.
• What volume has a brief entry?
• What titles, other than Contemporary Authors, have information about Joyce? Write the titles not just the abbreviations below.
• Which volume of TCLC has an excerpts of a criticism about Ulysses by T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound?
• What is the original title of the essay by Eliot?
5. Using any reference source(s), find two items useful for your topic. Cite them using MLA citation style.
6. Using a bibliography(ies) in book format, find two citations that might be useful for your project.
A. Cite the bibliography used in MLA citation style:
How did you find the bibliography - be specific.
Cite the item found in the bibliography in MLA citation style:
Does SSU own the item?
B. Cite the bibliography used in MLA citation style:
How did you find the bibliography - be specific.
Cite the item found in the bibliography in MLA citation style:
Does SSU own the item?
7. What do you think about reference sources - why are they important, what do you like and don't like about them, what don't you understand, did you find a favorite one or a favorite kind (i.e. encyclopedias or bibliographies), what would you tell a friend about reference sources, etc.? Be descriptive and thoughtful. Feel free to use the back.
Extra Credit
Using any reference source, find information about the history of recorded music.
• What source did you use? (include title and call number)
• How did you find the source - be specific.
• Cite the information you found using MLA citation format.
* You may begin including annotations for these sources if you are planning to include them in your final bibliography