Academic research and bibliography
As you know, a detailed bibliography is crucial for the top grades in the coursework. Please refer to the Essential Reading List which contains titles of 45 of the most important books for the Critical Investigation, most of which are either in the school library or media suite. If you haven't used any of these yet, make sure you take advantage of these excellent resources this week.
Those underlined are the twenty most important but, obviously, not all of the texts on this list will be directly relevant for you...you'll need to spend a fair amount of time searching through them (especially the contents and indexes) to find the key quotes and ideas that will impress the examiners.
You must include references to quite a few of these books if you want an A or B so borrow/buy these books and read them this week or over Christmas. If the book belongs to the Media department, you will have to do your research in class or in DF06 during a free period - the books can't leave school unfortunately.
Task #2 is to pull this information together in an updated blog posting of all your notes and quotes so far, making sure you include the following:
- Author-Year-Title-Place-Publisher info;
- Quotes (+ Page References) from the book that can be linked to your study;
- A short explanation of each one explaining how it is relevant to you.
- Finally, post up on your blog a Complete Bibliography (So Far) to include ALL the books you currently have quotes from. It MUST contain at least TEN different books.
Use this 'Guide to writing bibliographies' to help or try this really useful bibliography creator: 'BibMe'
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