1 / 9

Citing Sources for Success

Citing Sources for Success. National History Day 2013. Agenda. How to Cite Sources? What Should be Cited? Quoting Paraphrasing Parentheses Running Acknowledgement. When to Cite. http:// www.criticalthinkeracademy.com /academy/how-to-cite-sources-and-avoid-plagiarism/when-to-cite/.

emelda
Download Presentation

Citing Sources for Success

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Citing Sources for Success National History Day 2013

  2. Agenda • How to Cite Sources? • What Should be Cited? • Quoting • Paraphrasing • Parentheses • Running Acknowledgement

  3. When to Cite http://www.criticalthinkeracademy.com/academy/how-to-cite-sources-and-avoid-plagiarism/when-to-cite/

  4. What should be cited? What should not be cited? • Primary Sources • Numbers • Historical Data • Case Studies • Information beyond a” reasonable person” • Direct quotes • Interview • Secondary Sources • Historical Data • Interpretations • Conclusions • Direct quotes • Personal Thoughts • Your Observations • Common Knowledge • Reader should already know? • Easy to locate in a general reference source • Universal Facts http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/02/

  5. Quoting • Original source is perfect for impact • Recognizing an authority • Anticipating a counter argument from a source • Rewording would change the meaning of the source Purpose • According McVey (2012), “runners should avoid striking the ground with the heel of the foot while running.” Example…

  6. Paraphrasing • Citing the author’s ideas, not words • Captures the author’s meaning • No more than 3 exact words from the source (except for proper nouns) Purpose • To avoid unnecessary stress on the body, runners should land on mid-foot, not on the heal (McVey, 2012) Example…

  7. Parentheses • (Author, Year) • End of the Sentence • Ex. Integrating the clicker system into instruction as a post assessment will improve student performance, on average, by 25% (Grafton, 2012). • Multiple Authors • 2 authors (McVey & Phillips, 2012) • 3 to 5 authors (McVey, Phillips & Grafton, 2012) (McVey et al., 2012) • Multiple sources (McVey, 2010; Phillips, 2012)

  8. Running Acknowledgement • Integrate the author’s name followed by the (year) into a sentence • Examples • According to McVey (2012)… • McVey (2012) argues… • McVey (2012) suggests… • Phillips and McVey (2010) illustrate that… • As noted by Phillips (2010),

More Related