Documenting Your Research From taking notes to creating a list of works cited

Taking Research Notes 0 Create a new page of notes for each source of information 0 Place bibliographic reference at top of page 0 Note page number/paragraph number in margin 0 Separate notes from each new page/paragraph by skipping a line 0 Record information in your own words 0 Do not cut and paste from websites 0 Place quotation marks around any wording that you choose to copy word for word

Taking Notes from a Print Source

Taking Notes from a Web Source

For More Detailed Information Visit the Workshop section of the class website if you want more detailed information on: 0 How to record information in your notes READ Taking Research Notes 0 How to record a correct bibliographic reference for a variety of source materials READ Preparing a List of Works Cited 0 How to find useful, reliable information for your research project READ Evaluating Sources AND How to do a Better Google Search

Citing Your Sources 0 You need to cite: 0 Direction quotations 0 Factual information that is not common knowledge 0 References to someone else’s opinions, especially if they are controversial 0 Data, images, graphs, etc. that are not your own work 0 Data, information and opinions that are contentious or changeable 0 Citations should be placed as close to the referenced material as possible (not necessarily at the end of the sentence) 0 Citations always come before any punctuation

Citing A Source with Page Numbers If you wanted to cite material from these notes: Your citation would need: 0 Author’s last name (Cantor) 0 Page number of information (e.g. 5) 0 It would look like: (Cantor 5)

Citing A Source with Paragraph Numbers If you wanted to cite material from these notes: Your citation would need: 0 Author’s last name (Maspero) 0 Paragraph number of information (e.g. par. 12) 0 It would look like: (Maspero par. 12)

In a paragraph in your final paper your citations would look like this: Around 6000 BCE, civilization developed in Egypt. At this time, humans had already learned to farm (Cantor 4) and to use fire (Maspero par. 2). The presence of the Nile, as a natural source of fertile soil and irrigation, was key to the development of the Egyptian civilization, which began as a series of independent city states. These states would eventually be united into a single kingdom by Menes though the exact date of union is unclear (Maspero par. 3).

For More Detailed Information Visit the Workshop section of the class website if you want more detailed information on: 0 The difference between factual information that must be cited and factual information that is common knowledge READ Citing Your Sources 0 How to format a citation properly READ Citing Your Sources 0 How to incorporate a quotation into your writing and properly cite its source READ Incorporating Quotations AND Citing Your Sources

The Basics of a List of Works Cited 0 It comes at the end of your paper on a new page 0 Give it the title: Works Cited 0 Double space EVERYTHING using handing indentations to show that information on multiple lines is connected 0 List everything in alphabetical order by author’s last name 0 If the source doesn’t give an author, place it in alphabetical order by title (But ignore starting words like The and A)

Your list of works cited for the sample sources used in this presentation would look like:

For More Detailed Information Visit the Workshop section of the class website if you want more detailed information on: 0 How to record a correct bibliographic reference for a variety of source materials READ Preparing a List of Works Cited 0 How to properly format the list of Works Cited at the end of your paper READ Preparing a List of Works Cited 0 How to properly format an essay READ Essay Formatting