retribution overtakes its redresser

Paper instructions:
Using the question of my choice. What does “A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.” in the Cask of Amontillado
The Annotated Bibliography

In order to look for and evaluate potential secondary sources about a literary work, you need a question you think would be interesting to explore or an idea or observation that you have about a literary work for which you would like to find support. Your first task is to come up with one of these. You need to be original; you do not want to waste your time or your readers’ time answering a question that has already been answered or exploring an idea that someone else has already fully explored. You also want to be specific; wide-ranging, general questions do not make good research topics. So, Step 1: Come up with a question or observation about one of the stories we’ve read so far.

Step 2: Now that you have a question or an idea about a work, you need to find potential sources to help you answer or explore it. You need to consider, primarily, books, critical articles in the field, legitimate scholarly web sites, interviews, and articles in mainstream publications related to the work or its author.

Step 3: Produce an annotated bibliography. In your annotated bibliography, you must include four secondary sources: one book, one critical article from a scholarly journal, and two on-line sources associated with a major university. You then need to evaluate these sources as to how or in what way you believe they will be helpful to you in your research. You need not read the whole of a book at this point to know this; you might only read a review of the book, its introduction, or a particularly relevant chapter at this point. You may be able to get away with reading an abstract (brief overview) of an article at this point, but more likely you will need to read the article in its entirety.

When you have these four sources, you need to complete an annotated bibliography. Basically, you need to assess in writing the potential value of each source as it relates to your particular research attempt. So you want to find works you imagine will be helpful and relevant. Note that in order to find four potentially useful sources, you will have to look at more than four sources. Research means to search and then search again, and yet again.

When writing about these sources, evaluate their strengths, appropriateness to your project, the credentials of the authors, and so on. Avoid simply summarizing content. If you need help or examples, I recommend you visit Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab: owl.english.purdue.edu./owl/resource/614/02. Also refer to pp.1231-1237 in Literature: A Portable Anthology.

Your annotated bibliography must be 600 words, excluding quoted passages. You must complete the first draft by Monday, Oct. 7; bring in at least 5 copies on that day to distribute to group members for peer review. The final revised draft is due Monday, Oct. 9.