Mla citation for young goodman brown

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

An annotated bibliography is a bibliography with notes on each entry. Your bibliography should follow the MLA style format. You can find examples of this format in Writing Today, the MLA Style Handbook or various web pages, such as The Owl at Purdue Writing Lab: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/ . Your bibliography should have 3-6 sources.. You should put them in alphabetical order by author’s last name; if your sources don’t have authors, use the source’s title to alphabetize it. You should state your research question before your bibliographic entries.

Use the TSU library. Use the catalog for books and hard copies of literary journals and newspapers, and use the literary databases to find more specific information about your text. Do not use Wikipedia articles for any of your sources.

After you create the MLA-style “Works Cited” entries and read your sources, you then need to write the annotation. This follows the entry and it is about 1-2 double-spaced paragraphs. In the entry, you summarize the main thesis and supporting ideas of each text, and you evaluate its usefulness to you in answering your research question.

Here’s a sample of an annotated bibliography entry:

McCabe, Michael E. “The Consequences of Puritan Depravity and Distrust

as Historical Context for Hawthorne's ‘Young Goodman Brown.’” American Research and

Analysis Website. Florida Gulf Coast University. 7 July 1998. January 22, 2008. http://itech.fgcu.edu/faculty/wohlpart/alra/Hawthorne.htm#INSERT%201

McCabe bases his analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Young Goodman Brown” on Puritan theology, which emphasizes man’s inherent depravity, the importance of the conversion experience to indicate one’s own salvation, and the crisis of faith that occurred in second and third generation New England puritans. He also claims that the story parallels the early nineteenth-century anxiety about religion and religious revivals that swept New England. According to McCabe, Puritan theology put its followers in a double-bind: they were inherently sinful, and only signs of God’s grace working within them indicated that they were one of the saved. But there was also mistrust about what counted as a conversion experience and people were encouraged to distrust their instincts and thoughts. So Puritanism actually led to an atmosphere of mistrust—of one’s self and of others—that led to a cycle of misery and gloom.

I liked this essay because it put the story in the context of both seventeenth-century New England and Hawthorne’s own lifetime. It made me think more seriously about the corrosive effect of Puritan doctrine on the main character and his community in the story. I think McCabe does a good job of using other primary sources to support his argument.

After your last bibliographic entry, you should write your tentative thesis (the possible answer to your research question, and what you will argue for in your research essay).

See the course schedule about due dates for the optional first draft and for the final draft deadlines.