- From analyzing Bess' work with his sources, what standards or rules does he seem to be following for citing his work?
- The first time he cites something he uses a lot of information, such as full name, publisher, and date of publication, and pages used. But citations further in the text have less information because he's already taken note of it.
- Bess' work privies us with example of "annotated" notes. (3,5,6,8,11,25). Based on these examples. what do you understand annotated to mean?
- To show people how reliable/ credible the authors sources are so the readers believe the authors words.
- Are there sources in the notes that are not MENTIONED directly and explicitly in the text itself? If so, what rile seems to apply? How might he be making that determination?
- He placed these sources in the citations so that readers could refer to these texts, even though he didn't end up using them within the text itself. In note #8 he uses Reading the Holocaust, and Morality After Auschwitz, but he doesn't actually use these books in his text.
- How did Bess credit his in the text to make it obvious when he is working with the words of other authors?
- Bess credited his sources by quoting the author and book used. He's naming and identifying the page numbers, books, or exactly where he found the information.
- Int he passage you read, Bess is working with many primary and secondary sources, but makes extensive use of one in particular. Given how extensively he is using the work of other historians or researchers, what males his argument original.
- He's using his own ideas in his book, but using examples and ideas by other authors to back up his ideas.
Michael Bess, author and Historian at Vanderbilt University
