Today’s Goal Learn the basics of creating: Works Cited and In-Text Citations Learn the basics of...

Today’s GoalToday’s GoalLearn the basics of Learn the basics of creating: Works Cited and creating: Works Cited and In-Text CitationsIn-Text Citations

Take out your purple Take out your purple sheet and paper to take sheet and paper to take notes.notes.

Why do I need to cite my Why do I need to cite my sources?sources?

Whenever you take information from somewhere Whenever you take information from somewhere other than your own brain, you must cite where other than your own brain, you must cite where you got the information.you got the information.

If you use information that is not yours….If you use information that is not yours….

PlagiarismPlagiarism

Plagiarize - to “steal and pass off (the Plagiarize - to “steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own…ideas or words of another) as one’s own…without crediting the source”without crediting the source”

Webster’s New Collegiate DictionaryWebster’s New Collegiate Dictionary. Springfield: Merriam, 1981. . Springfield: Merriam, 1981. Print.Print.

If you plagiarize, you may get a zero or an If you plagiarize, you may get a zero or an F on an assignment.F on an assignment.

How do I arrange my sources?How do I arrange my sources?

• Alphabetical order by author’s last name

• If author unknown, alphabetize by title

Works Cited PageWorks Cited PageWorks Cited appears at the end of the Works Cited appears at the end of the paper on a new page.paper on a new page.Times New Roman, size 12 FontTimes New Roman, size 12 FontDouble space the entire page.Double space the entire page.Center the title, Works Cited, at the top of Center the title, Works Cited, at the top of the page.the page.If an entry runs more than one line, indent If an entry runs more than one line, indent the following lines (hanging indention).the following lines (hanging indention).

Don’t forget to include…Don’t forget to include…

Interviewee as one of your sourcesInterviewee as one of your sources Last name, first name. Personal interview. Last name, first name. Personal interview.

Date of interview.Date of interview.

Sample: Sample: Schaefer, Helen. Personal interview. 12 Feb. 2013.Schaefer, Helen. Personal interview. 12 Feb. 2013.

Works Cited

Burg, David F. The Great Depression: An Eyewitness History.

New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1996. Print.

Schaefer, Helen. Personal interview. 9 Feb. 2012.

"Works Progress Administration Formed, April 8, 1935." Discovering U.S.

History, 2003. Student Resource Center - Silver. Web. 3 Jan.

2010.

Open New Word Document Open New Word Document in Microsoft Officein Microsoft Office

Double SpacingDouble Spacing: Click line spacing button : Click line spacing button to make document double-spaced (choose to make document double-spaced (choose 2.0)2.0)FontFont: Choose Times New Roman 12 font: Choose Times New Roman 12 fontHanging IndentionHanging Indention: Go to Home click : Go to Home click Paragraph Box. Select Hanging in the Paragraph Box. Select Hanging in the Special box and change By: to 0.5”Special box and change By: to 0.5”

If you have any questions…If you have any questions…

Go to Library Webpage and click on Oral Go to Library Webpage and click on Oral History PathfinderHistory Pathfinder

http://www.crsd.org/page/10094

In-Text CitationsYou must show where you found each and every fact by using in-text citations.

How do you do this? Author’s last name and page # in parenthesis. If no author, then use title of article in

quotation marks in parenthesis

Citing Sources in the TextCiting Sources in the TextBookBook: Use author’s last name: Use author’s last name (Nyquist 19).(Nyquist 19). AlwaysAlways include page # with book! include page # with book!

DatabaseDatabase: Use author’s last name: Use author’s last name (Hanna).(Hanna).

If no author, use title: (“The Effects of the If no author, use title: (“The Effects of the Korean War”).Korean War”).