1. Type I Why is it important to document sources? Why is using a style guide (MLA) important? –OGT SA Response (4 points)

2. Recording Sources Source Cards

3. Each time you find a book, article, interview, government document, … you can use, prepare a source card. A source card is important for many reasons: –It allows you to find that source again. –It gives you a “jump start” on your Works Cited page.

4. Source Cards Source Number Citation Place Where Source is Found 1 SIRS Bryden. M.P. “Additional Attentional Strategies in Listening.” National Review of Cognitive Psycology 33 (1999): 57-66. 19 Apr 2001.

5. Source Number Located in the upper-right hand corner Always circled Each separate source (book, article, government document, etc) gets its own number Number is also used on your note card so you do not have to write the citation again.

6. Place Where Source is Housed Located in lower left- hand corner Name of the library (LHS Library/Lebanon Public Library), the internet database (SIRS, InfOhio, Gale), …

7. Citation Located in center of card Always formatted with an indention on all lines after the first Allows you to relocate the source Gives you a jump start on your works cited page Necessary to avoid plagiarism

8. Citations For your research, you may only use books, magazine articles (print or electronic), and articles from scholarly journals. –Nothing you found through search engines like Google, Yahoo, etc.

9. Assignment Read page 164 (starting at “Documentation of Sources) – 166. Complete Practice #3, but write each citation as a source card. –Book, Magazine/Newspaper Article, Government Document, and Encyclopedia found in the LHS Library. –Internet Web Site found on SIRS –BRAINSTORMING— –List information you know about two potential topics (Death Penalty: for murderers; electric chair— electrocute people; lethal injection…) –Write a rationale What about this topic interests you?