My research work

Assembling a Working Bibliography

During your exploratory research, you begin to assemble a working bibliography for your paper. This working bibliography will be the basis for your works-cited list, which will include all the sources you cite in your paper.

As you consider each potential source, keep track of your sources by recording full and accurate bibliographic information in a separate computer file designated "Bibliography" (or, if you prefer, on individ­ual index cards). Keep records of interviews, meetings, lectures, films, and electronic sources as well as records of books and articles. For each source, include not only basic identifying details—such as the date of an interview, the call number of a library book, the URL of an Internet source and the date you downloaded it, or the author of an article accessed from a database—but also a brief evaluation that includes comments about the kind of information the source contains, the amount of information offered, its relevance to your topic, and its limitations.

As you record bibliographic information for your sources, include the following information:

· Book Author(s); title (underlined or in italics); call number (for future reference); city of publication; publisher; date of publication; brief evaluation

· Article Author(s); title of article (in quotation marks); title of journal (underlined or in italics); volume number; date; inclusive page numbers; URL (if applicable); date downloaded (if applicable); brief evaluation

As you go about collecting sources and building your working bibliography, be careful to monitor the quality and relevance of all the materials you examine. Making informed choices early in the research process will save you a lot of time in the long run.

Task 1

Answer the questions:

What is the difference between ‘working bibliography’ and ‘works-cited list’?

What parts does a working bibliography contain?

What details about books/articles are put in a working bibliography?

Why is it necessary to monitor the quality and relevance of all the materials you examine?

Task 2

Describe the working bibliography in your research work.

After finishing school I took up philology because…

The subject of my first course paper was "....". I got interested in that subject because...

My first scientific advisor/instructor/supervisor was... and he/she has been in this position for all these years.

In my third year at the University I took up another problem/continued working on this theme. The previous study was supplemented with the analysis of...

I changed the topic of my research/My qualification paper was devoted to the same subject.

My research work is entitled/My course paper is headlined/The title reads….

The aim of my research is…

I found the information in/collected the material from…

The methods used in my research are...

(the descriptive method/ the immediate constituents analysis/ the componential analysis/ the typological method/ the comparative method/ the oppositional method).

My qualification paper consistsof... parts.

The literature review is made in the first part. I present different opinions of various scholars.

My own analysis of the problem under study is given in the second part

I tried to prove that/I classified…

I made some conclusions

Task

Using the sentences/expressions given above, make up a story about your research work.

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