The Mechanics of CitingSlide 2What to cite:Where to Cite:How to Cite:What you need to know:What you don’t need to know:Slide 8Slide 9Slide 10Slide 11Slide 12Slide 13Slide 14More citation help:The Mechanics of CitingWeb sitesBooksAdsArticlesResearch PaperBibliography•Citation 1•Citation 2•Citation 3•Citation 4What to cite:•Any information/idea you are using that came from one of your researched sources.•Including:•Paraphrases (even if it is not a direct quote)•Not including:•General knowledge (WWII ended in the 1940’s, American Idol is a TV phenomenon, etc)Give credit in the text:Human beings have been described as "symbol-using animals" (Burke 3).Document it in a Works Cited page:Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. Berkeley: U of California P, 1966.Where to Cite:How to Cite:What you need to know:•What kind of publication you are citing:•Book•Journal article•Online article•Web page•Video•How to find the elements of a citation:•Author•Title•Date of Publication•Place of publication for some itemsWhat you don’t need to know:•Where to put every •Italic•Comma•periodMore citation help:•OWLhttp://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/•Net.TUTOR/Using Informationhttp://liblearn.osu.edu/tutor/les7/•Son of Citation Machine http://citationmachine.net/•Writing Analytically Ch. 13•Refworks (for larger projects)Connect from
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