Introduction

Making a source list

Preparing a Works Cited list

Talk About It

Your Turn

Tech Tools in this presentation

• Internet Bookmarks

• Social Bookmarking

• Delicious

Capturing Sources

Introduction

You might find a book in the library but forget its name or where it is shelved.

You might go online and find a helpful Web site but forget to record the URL.

When you are working on a research project, it can bedifficult to keep track of all your sources.

Introduction

[picture of same student from first slide, looking thoughtful]

• help you locate sources again so you can check information or get new information

• save time at the end of your project because you will already have recorded the source information

• enable others to find and consult your sources

I need a way to organize all these sources!

Finding a way to keep track of and organize your sources will

Making a source list

You can make a source list by

• writing source informationon notecards

• using a word-processingprogram to record information

• using an online program torecord source information

As you do research, keep track of each source you use by making a source list (sometimes called a working bibliography).

Making a source list

When you are making a source list:

Assign each source a number. When you take notes, you will write the number next to each note instead of repeatedly writing the source’s title and author name.

Record full publishing information for each source,including subtitles, translators, and volume and edition numbers.

Include on your source list each source you consult,even if you aren’t sure you will use the information in your final research.

Making a source list

For example, here is the full publishing information you must capture for a source that is a sound recording:

1. Artist: last name first, first name last

2. Title of album, italicized

3. Name of distributor

4. Year album was released

Frost, Robert. Robert Frost Reads His Poetry.

Caedmon, 1958. CD.

5. Medium of publication

Making a source list

Capture this information for a personal interview:

1. Interviewee: last name first, first name last

2. The words Personal Interview followed by a period

3. The date of the interview: day, month, year

Smith, John J. Personal Interview. 27 October

2008.

Making a source list

Capture this information for a film shown on TV:

The Works of Robert Frost. Dir. Bill Humphreys. New

Hampshire Public Television. WBNS, Columbus, 10

Oct. 2008. Television.

1. Title of film italicized

2. Director: first name first, last name last

3. Network name

4. Call letters of the station on which the film was shown

5. City of the station on which the film was shown

6. Broadcast date: day, month, year

7. Medium of publication

For an electronic source, such as a Web page, record this information:

Making a source list

4. Merriman, C.D. “Robert Frost.” The Literature Network.

Jalic Inc. 28 Oct. 2006. Web. 5 Nov. 2008.

1. Author’s name

2. Title of Web page

3. Name of general Web site

4. Name of publisher or sponsor

5. Date Web page was created

6. Medium of publication

7. Date you accessed the Web page

One way to keep track of Web sites you are using for research is with Internet bookmarks.

Tech Tool: Internet Bookmarks

When you find a useful site, go to your search engine’s toolbar, click Favorites or Bookmarks, and then click Add To Favorites or Add Bookmark. The Web site will be saved in your Favorites or Bookmarks list.

Tech Tool: Internet Bookmarks

You can store all your Internet bookmarks for a research project in one folder, and you can have as many folders as you want.

Social bookmarking services offer a way to keep track of online sources and to share them with others. You might want to share your online bookmarks if you are

Tech Tool: Social Bookmarking

working on a group research project and want to share relevant Web sites with group members

researching a topic and want to see what Web sites other people have found on that topic

working individually on a topic similar to others’ topics

Tech Tool: Delicious

One social bookmarking site is Delicious, which enables users to store bookmarks online rather than on their computers. That means you can access and add to your bookmarks from any computer.

Tech Tool: Delicious

On Delicious, you use tags—one-word descriptors—instead of folders to organize your bookmarks. Tags make it easy for people to search Delicious for topics.

Tech Tool: Delicious

On Delicious, other people can see what you have bookmarked, and you can see what they have bookmarked. This social bookmarking gives you access to many more sites that are tagged as being relevant to your research topic.

you must give credit to the people whose ideas and information you have used in your project. If you do not give them credit, you will have plagiarized—or stolen—their ideas.

having a Works Cited list makes it easy for readers to find your sources if they want to check a fact or find out more about your topic.

Preparing a Works Cited list

Once you have completed your research project, it is time to compile your Works Cited list. It is important to have a Works Cited list because

Preparing a Works Cited list

When it is time to compile your Works Cited list, you will be glad that you kept a complete and properly formatted source list.

You need only to copy entries from your source list document, paste them into your Works Cited document, and make a few adjustments.

If you handwrote your sources, simply type the information into your Works Cited document.

1 Smith, John J. Personal Interview. 27 October

2008.

Smith, John J. Personal Interview. 27 October

2008.

3 Frost, Robert. The Poetry of Robert Frost. New

York: Henry Holt, 1969. Print.

2 Frost, Robert. Robert Frost Reads His Poetry.

Caedmon, 1958. CD.

Frost, Robert. The Poetry of Robert Frost. New

York: Henry Holt, 1969. Print.

Frost, Robert. Robert Frost Reads His Poetry.

Caedmon, 1958. CD.

Preparing a Works Cited list

Below is a source list that you would compile in preparation for creating a Works Cited list.

To begin creating your Works Cited list, first remove the source numbers.

Frost, Robert. The Poetry of Robert Frost. New York:

Henry Holt, 1969. Print.

Frost, Robert. Robert Frost Reads His Poetry.

Caedmon, 1958. CD.

Smith, John J. Personal Interview. 27 October 2008.

Works Cited

Frost, Robert. The Poetry of Robert Frost. New York:

Henry Holt, 1969. Print.

Frost, Robert. Robert Frost Reads His Poetry.

Caedmon, 1958. CD.

Smith, John J. Personal Interview. 27 October 2008.

Preparing a Works Cited list

Next, put the sources in alphabetical order.

Then create one double-spaced document titled “Works Cited.” Indent all lines after the first line of each entry.

Conclusion

If you keep a complete source list, you will never have to worry about losing sources again.

What’s more, if you are careful to format your Works Cited list according to MLA (or APA) style, you can be assured that your Works Cited page will make the grade.

Talk About It

Discuss these questions with your classmates.

1. How can bookmarking Internet pages help you during the research process?

2. Do you think social bookmarking helps users find relevant sources? Why or why not?

3. Does the Delicious method of using tags instead of folders help a user stay more organized? Why?

Your Turn

Step 1: Create an account on Delicious and install two buttons into your browser—the My Delicious button and the Tag This button. Take the button tutorial.

Step 3: Save some links for classmates. Check Links For You for links others have saved for you.

Step 2: Save some links that you have found in previous Internet searches into your Favorites list. Make sure you tag them. Search for links on your chosen research topic and save them in your Favorites list.

Use Delicious to follow the steps below and then answer the questions on the next slide.

Your Turn

1. Which sites did you save in your Favorites list? Why?

2. When you conducted a search on Delicious for Web sites related to your research topic, did you find any? Were the sites returned by the search relevant to your topic?

3. What is something new you learned during the tutorial?

4. Now that you have experimented with Delicious, do you think you would plan to use it in an actual research situation? Why or why not?

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