Listing Your Information

For the "Information Plus Reflection" essay, you need, as always, to cite your sources. All of the formal research you've done should be documented in a Works Cited list (MLA style), giving complete bibliographic information for every source. In addition to this bibliography, you should also compile a list of all of the types or categories of information that has been incorporated into the essay, old and new--stuff you already knew but were drawing on when you wrote the essay, and stuff you specifically sought out and learned to enhance and develop this essay. Especially be sure and include elements that contributed to the final draft, but which it didn't make sense to cite as a formal source (e.g. casual conversation that wasn't an "interview," childhood memories, stuff you know from taking U.S. History). 

Some examples of these lists from previous Nonfiction Writing classes can be viewed here.