Should You Cite It??

Welcome to the New Show...

A quotation

"The only thing we have to fear is...fear itself!"

Should You Cite It??

Yes!

"The only thing we have to fear is...fear itself!" (Roosevelt).

In Works Cited:Franklin D. Roosevelt, Inaugural Address, March

4, 1933, as published in Samuel Rosenman, ed., The Public Papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Volume Two: The Year of Crisis, 1933 (New York: Random House, 1938), 11–16.

A summary

Dr. Martin Luther King spoke extensively about the importance of working together to achieve equal rights for persons of every ethnicity.

Yes!

In Works Cited:King, Martin L. "I Have a Dream Speech." March on

Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. 28 Aug. 1963. Speech. [if you were there]

King, Martin L. "I Have a Dream Speech." Speech. March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. 28 Aug. 1963. Youtube.com. Youtube, 18 Dec. 2006. Web. 13 Oct. 2013. [if you found it on the web]

Which of the following?

• Fifty percent of all marriages over the last twenty years have ended in divorce.

• A pipeline owned by Tesoro Logistics LP has leaked more than 20,000 barrels of crude oil into a wheat field in North Dakota...

• Film critic Gene Siskel hates The Hunger Games.

• Writing skills have declined in American schools.

Citations for all!!

What about these?

• My grandma makes great cookies.• My friend's dog has three legs.• My mom often tells me my room should be in

the Smithsonian Institution.

Nope!

• You do not have to cite what you know from personal experience.

• You do not have to cite what is common knowledge (i.e., George Washington was the first president of the United States).

• You do not have to cite results of an experiment or survey YOU conducted.

What do you need for a citation?

• Author, if available.• Name of publication or book title (New York

Times, The Hunger Games, USA.gov).• Article, poem, speech title ("Stock Market

Falls," "Stopping by Woods," "I Have a Dream").

• Date of publication, publisher, medium (print, web, television, film).

HOW Do you Cite?• In the text with an attribution: According

to...., Mr. Somebody says, ...., A book by John Doe explains...."

• In the text after the information using a parenthetical reference (Churchill), (Smith, 42), ("Platypus").

AND ALSO:• On the Works Cited page using MLA style

(carefully examined in the MLA Handbook).

What's in it for you?

• Papers free of plagiarism!• Better grades than many seniors get!• The undying admiration of your teacher!• A chance to win big prizes (just kidding).

• My thanks.....seriously!

A Brief Quiz

1. You decide to quote from your older brother's paper on the same topic. What do you do?A. Cite it as an interview.B. Cite it as an unpublished paper.C. Use it without citation because you are related to each other.D. Use it without citation as common knowledge.

2. You find a great pie chart in a book that says exactly what you need. You copy it and paste it into your paper. What do you do?A. Cite it as a published figure.B. Don't cite it; it's just a picture.C. Redraw it and not cite it, because you drew it.

3. Your mom has some experience with your topic and gives you some great tips to use in your paper. YouA. Quote her in the paper but don't add her to the list of sources.B. Summarize her ideas but don't add her to the list of sources.C. Quote or summarize AND add her to the list of sources.

4. You find a great two-word phrase to use to describe a complicated idea in your paper. Do you have to cite a source?

A. YesB. No

Answers

1. Even unpublished papers must be cited; answer is B.

2. Cite figures, tables, charts and graphs; answer is A (also must be cited if you redraw it).

3. Choose C—your mother is an interview source and must be added to your list

4. Yes. If you didn't think of it, it's not yours!

Got the idea?M--ake good decisions!L--ist your sources!A--dd citations!