HEY…? what’s a BIBLIOGRAPHY?

A bibliography is a list of books, sites, and other resources that you used for research for a project. It’s something that’s added onto a project.

Do you mean a biography? A biography is a story of someone’s life. To do this, you read up on their life, take notes, gather info, and write a paper about it. You include the bibliography at the end 🙂

Hope that helps!

PS – you might want to cut down on the all caps…it’s shouting. Thanks 🙂

Do you mean BIOGRAPHY? or BIBLIOGRAPHY? There is a big difference. Look at the homework sheet and decide which it is.

Biography – a written account of a person’s life or the group of literature concerned with people’s lives.

www.uakron.edu/library/instruction/glossary.htm

Bibliography – A bibliography is a list of citations that appear at the end of a paper, article, chapter or book. There are also books entirely made up of bibliographies. These are usually compilations of citations on a particular subject or by a particular author.

campusgw.library.cornell.edu/newhelp/glossary.html

A bibliography is a citation of your references you get for a research paper or something. I think you’re thinking of a biography which is a writing abot someone’s life other than yours.

A bibiliography is a way to cite the sources you used in a paper or essay. Essentially it is a list of citations(sources).

You can go to this website and it will guide you through the making of your bibliography.

http://citationmachine.net/

Choose what format your bibliography needs to be (on the left hand side of the webpage) (probably MLA), then choose what type of source you got your information from, put the required information in the designated boxes, then takes the results and put them in alphabetical order by the first letter of the citation.

Hope this helped!!!!!

no purple is taling about a BIOGRAPHY a bibliography is a list of authors/website leaders/publishers in alphabetical order that is used when you use their info or quote them when you are doing research– it is plagerism if you use more then 4 words in the same order as they did w/o putting them in the bibliography

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bibliography is on a persons life that interests you more to write about that person and his life

bib·li·og·ra·phy (bĭb’lē-ŏg’rə-fē)

n., pl. -phies.

A list of the works of a specific author or publisher.

A list of writings relating to a given subject: a bibliography of Latin American history.

A list of writings used or considered by an author in preparing a particular work.

The description and identification of the editions, dates of issue, authorship, and typography of books or other written material.

A compilation of such information.

bibliographical bib’li·o·graph’i·cal (-ə-grăf’ĭ-kəl) or bib’li·o·graph’ic (-ĭk) adj.

bibliographically bib’li·o·graph’i·cal·ly adv.

Literary Dictionary

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bibliography, the description of books: (i) a systematic list of writings by a given author or on a given subject; (ii) the study of books as material objects, involving technical analysis of paper, printing methods, bindings, page‐numbering, and publishing history. A compiler of bibliographies or a student of bibliography is a bibliographer.

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia

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Broadly, the systematic study and description of books. The word can refer to the listing of books according to some system (called descriptive, or enumerative, bibliography), to the study of books as tangible objects (called critical, or analytical, bibliography), or to the product of those activities. The purpose of bibliography is to organize information about materials on a given subject so that students of the subject may have access to it. A descriptive bibliography may take the form of information about a particular author’s works or about works on a given subject or on a particular nation or period. Critical bibliography, which emerged in the early 20th century, involves meticulous descriptions of the physical features of books, including the paper, binding, printing, typography, and production processes used, to help establish such facts as printing dates and authenticity.

For more information on bibliography, visit Britannica.com.

Example from URL: http://www.fcps.edu/KeyMS/library/bibliography.html

SUGGESTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

GUIDE TO PREPARING BIBLIOGRAPHY / WORKS CITED

When doing research and writing a report, it is always necessary to name the source(s) of your information. This list of sources is called a bibliography / works cited. A bibliography should be listed alphabetically. The second line of an entry should be indented. Skip a line after each entry.

[ Book ] [ Encyclopedia ] [ Magazine & Newspaper ] [ Internet ]

[ Audiovisual Material ] [ CD-ROM ] [ Interview ] [ Example ]

FOR A BOOK:

Author’s last name, first name. Title of book. Place of publication: Publisher, copyright year.

example:

Fogle, Bruce. Training Your Dog. New York: DK Publishing, 2001.

If you only used part of a book:

Fogle, Bruce. Training Your Dog. New York: DK Publishing, 2001, pp. 50-55.

FOR AN ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLE THAT IS SIGNED:

Article author’s last name, first name. “Title of article.” Name of encyclopedia. Copyright year. Volume number, page(s).

example:

Clark, William W. “Gothic Art.” World Book Encyclopedia. 2002.

Volume 8, pp. 277-278.

FOR AN ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLE THAT ISN’T SIGNED:

“Title of article.” Name of encyclopedia. Copyright year. Volume number, page(s).

example:

“Golden Retriever.” World Book Encyclopedia. 1999. Volume 8, p.255.

FOR A MAGAZINE OR NEWSPAPER ARTICLE:

Article author’s last name, first name. “Title or headline of article.” Name of magazine or newspaper. Date of magazine or newspaper, page(s).

example:

McGill, Kristy. “A Baltic Scramble.” Faces. May, 2003, p. 27.

FOR AN INTERNET ADDRESS:

Author’s last name, first name. “Title of item.” [Online] Available

http://address/filename, date of document or download.

example:

DiStefano, Vince. “Guidelines for Better Writing.” [Online] Available

http://www.usa.net/~vinced/home/better-writing.html, October 5, 2002.

This example of how to cite an INTERNET source was downloaded from this online source.

FOR AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS:

Title of material. Type of material. Place of publication: Publisher, copyright date.

example:

Bizet’s Dream. Videotape. New York: Sony Wonder, 1998.

FOR A CD-ROM:

“Article title.” CD-ROM title. CD-ROM. Copyright date.

example:

“Titanic Disaster.” Encarta 99 Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. 1999.

FOR AN INTERVIEW:

Name of person interviewed (last name first). Kind of interview. Date.

example:

Watson, Cosmo. Personal interview. July 29, 2003.

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Your finished bibliography should be alphabetized by the first word of the entry, and will look something like this:

BIBLIOGRAPHY/WORKS CITED

Bizet’s Dream. Videotape. New York: Sony Wonder, 1998.

Clark, William W. “Gothic Art.” World Book Encyclopedia. 2002.

Volume 8, pp. 284-286.

DiStefano, Vince. “Guidelines for Better Writing.” [Online] Available

http://www.usa.net/~vinced/home/better-writing.html, October 5, 2002.

Fogle, Bruce. Training Your Dog. New York: DK Publishing, 2001, pp. 50-55.

“Golden Retriever.” World Book Encyclopedia. 1999. Volume 8, p.255.

McGill, Kristy. “A Baltic Scramble.” Faces. May, 2003, p. 27.

“Titanic Disaster.” Encarta 99 Encyclopedia. CD-ROM. 1999.

Watson, Cosmo. Personal interview. July 29, 2003.

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