LibGuides: English 10: Step 2: Biographical Summary

Books to Use! Available in Library!

Racism in Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Claudia Johnson (Editor)
ISBN: 9780737739015

Publication Date: 2007-12-13
All Quiet on the Western Front by Harold Bloom
ISBN: 0791059235

Publication Date: 2000-12-01
Colonialism in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart by Louise Hawker
ISBN: 9780737746501

Publication Date: 2010-04-09

....And many more!

Attribution and Documentation

This project requires you to document all your sources and attribute all information included in your essay that is not considered common knowledge. All information quoted, paraphrased, or summarized from an outside source must include in-text citation and a corresponding entry in the Works Cited Page.

To review guidelines about and strategies for avoiding plagiarism, visit and read the following pages, all from Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab:

Plagiarism: Overview and Contradictions

Is It Plagiarism?

Safe Practices

Biography Assignment

Biography Assignment

Our top 5! (Highly Recommended by Mrs. Bloom and Ms. Whitt)

Bloom's Literary Reference Online This resource contains more than 20,000 critical essays from over 500 literary journals and 2,300 scholarly and critical books, including 700 titles published by Bloom's Literary Criticism and Facts On File. Also included in the database are more than 13,000 biographies, 45,000 character entries, 5,000 synopses of literary works and hundreds of images and videos.
Gale Artemis Literary Sources Searches Literature Resource Center, LitFinder and Twayne's
Literary Reference Center Information on thousands of authors and their works. Includes all types of literature and time periods.
Oxford English Dictionary
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The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.

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Remember to Cite Sources!!

Citing your sources doesn't have to be hard. Just remember to get the information while you are in the source!

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Cite resources in any format!
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-For Username type your school email
-For Password type your school password
-Press Continue to create a personal account

-Start a new project and start citing!

Hint: For the citation "level," we recommend "starter" for middle school and "junior" for upper school.

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