Creating Note-cards

What are note-cards? Note-cards are a written record of the research that you have done.Note-cards are a written record of the research that you have done. Note-cards list the sources, quotes, and bibliographic information of the sources that you used.Note-cards list the sources, quotes, and bibliographic information of the sources that you used. Note-cards are small and easy to work with.Note-cards are small and easy to work with.

Why should I use note- cards? Note-cards will make your writing of the paper easier.Note-cards will make your writing of the paper easier. Note-cards are flexible. You may put them in order when you begin to write.Note-cards are flexible. You may put them in order when you begin to write. Note-cards contain the information for your Works Cited page.Note-cards contain the information for your Works Cited page.

What sources should I cite? BooksBooks Article in a Scholarly JournalArticle in a Scholarly Journal Newspaper or magazine articleNewspaper or magazine article Internet SourceInternet Source

Books 1.Author’s full name (last name first) 2.Full title (including any subtitle) 3.Edition (if the book is a second or later edition) 4.Number of the volume and the total number of volumes (if the book is a multivolume work) 5.City of publication 6.Shortened form of the publisher’s name 7.Year of publication

Example of Book Citation Budden, Julian. The Operas of Verdi. Rev. Ed. 3 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1992.

Article in a Scholarly Journal 1.Author’s Name 2.Title of the article 3.Title of the journal 4. Volume number 5.Year of publication 6.Inclusive page numbers of the article (i.e. the number of the page on which the article begins, a hyphen, and the number of the page on which the article ends)

Example of an Article in a Scholarly Journal Vartanov, Anri. “Television as Spectacle and Myth.” Journal of Communication 41 (1991):

Newspaper or magazine article 1.Author’s name. 2.Title of the article 3.Title of the periodical 4.Date of publication 5.Inclusive page numbers of the article

Example of a newspaper or magazine article Shea, Christopher. “The Limits of Free Speech.” Chronicle of Higher Education 1 Dec. 1993: A37-38.

Internet Source 1.Author’s name 2.Title of the document 3.Title of the scholarly project, database, periodical, or professional or personal site 4.Name of the editor of the scholarly project or database 5.Date of the electronic publication or last update

Internet Source, continued 6. Name of the institution or organization sponsoring or associated with the site 7. Date when you accessed the source 8. Network address or URL

Example of an Internet Source Oakley, John H. “The Achilles Painter.” The Perseus Project. ED. Gregory Crane. Mar Tufts U. 14 May 1998 Oakley, John H. “The Achilles Painter.” The Perseus Project. ED. Gregory Crane. Mar Tufts U. 14 May 1998

A Helpful Website When you are getting ready to do your Works Cited page, this website will help you to write your citations correctly. ations/secondary/index.php ations/secondary/index.php

More Helpful Information

Works Cited Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. Fifth Edition ed. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, s/secondary/index.php e.htm e.htm

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