http://www.nhd.org/ConductingResearch.htm
Read here to learn what citation styles meet with NHD requirements!
Here is the NHD site that gives you an example of how to write bibliographic information and an annotation.
Summarize: If there is a lot of information that you want to use, read it over and give a brief statement of the main points or sum up the information. Be sure to list this source on your annotated bibliography. Here is an idea from readingquest.org to help you get the hang of it.
http://www.readingquest.org/pdf/sumitup.pdf
Here are tools to help you summarize. Either copy and paste the information you find into the tools or enter the URL if it is a website. The tools will do the rest! Try them both and the pdf above to see which one leaves you with the best summary.
http://www.tools4noobs.com/summarize/
How-To Geek shows you how to use the auto-summarize tool in Word documents...
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/microsoft-office/easily-summarize-a-word-2007-document/
Bainbridge College gives permission for use on the site.
When you find information on a website, in a book, in a video, etc. that you want to use in your NHD project, you have some choices to make. Depending on the size, you'll want to summarize, paraphrase, or quote the information.
This video has five parts, so let it continue after each part is done until you've watched all five. Permission to use requested.
Permission to use received.
Practice Paraphrasing and submit your answers. If you get any wrong, try again, until you get 100%.
http://www.laflemm.com/RfT/Practice/RfTPracticeParaphrasing.html
Annotated Bibliography
Primary Sources:
Bates, Daisy. The Long Shadow of Little Rock. New York: David McKay Co. Inc., 1962.
Daisy Bates was the president of the Arkansas NAACP and the one who met and listened to the students each day. This first-hand account will be very important to my paper because it has made me more aware of the emotions of the people involved in the movement.
Little Rock 1957: Pages from History. 1997. Counts, Will. Little Rock Newspapers, Inc. 15 October 2007. http://www.ardemgaz.com/prev/central/counts.html.
This collection of photographs by Arkansas native Will Counts appeared in the Arkansas papers as the crisis unfolded. I learned how important the press was, especially the photographers, in shaping the story for the rest of the nation. The famous photo of Elizabeth Eckford being heckled by the crowd made me want to understand more about the hatred that so many of the white residents of Little Rock seemed to feel.
Secondary Sources:
Fitzgerald, Stephanie. The Little Rock Nine: Struggle for Integration. New York: Compass Point Books, August 31, 2006.
This young adult book provided a detailed overview of the events leading up to the integration of Central High School in a format that was easy to understand. It also contained many primary sources in the form of interviews with the participants. From reading this I decided to focus my research on Daisy Bates and to build my documentary around her experiences supporting the Black students in their struggle for integration.
The Little Rock Nine. 1997. Rains, Craig. 15 October 2007. http://www.centralhigh57.org/The_Little_Rock_Nine.html.
This site provided an overview of what happened to the Little Rock Nine after the crisis at Central High. It reminded me that the nine young people were each affected very differently by America’s early attempts at forced integration. It also forced me to think about how this experience may have shaped the future of each of the nine and led me to further research about their lives after Little Rock.
Roberts, Sam. “1957 The Integration of Central High.” Up Front. 3 September 2007: 24-27.
In addition to an overview of the crisis at Central High School, this article included a Civil Rights timeline stretching from 1896 through 1971. It helped me to place this event in context and helped me understand that this was the precursor to the busing crises of the 1970’s.
These sites will easily help you put your citations in the correct order for your annotated bibliography.
Don't forget to add the annotation (description of useful information you found at the site) after the bibliographic information.
**Remember, don't cite a source where you found no useful information.
Never take exact information from a source without giving them credit. That is plagiarism. It's against copyright laws. The definition of Plagiarism is: The practice of taking someone else's works or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
Quote: If you find that someone else says exactly what you want in the perfect way, you need to quote the entire piece that you have taken from the original source.
Paraphrase: If it's just a few lines, put the information into your own words. You still need to write this source information as one of your sources, but no quotes are needed.
Always request permission to use pictures and videos. A simple e-mail or letter will do. State on your project that permission has been requested or received.