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1 Today’s Goal Learn the basics of creating: Works Cited and In-Text Citations Learn the basics of creating: Works Cited and In-Text Citations Take out your purple sheet and paper to take notes. Take out your purple sheet and paper to take notes.

2 Why do I need to cite my sources? Whenever you take information from somewhere other than your own brain, you must cite where you got the information. If you use information that is not yours….

3 Plagiarism Plagiarize - to “steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own…without crediting the source” Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary. Springfield: Merriam, 1981. Print. If you plagiarize, you may get a zero or an F on an assignment.

4 How do I arrange my sources? Alphabetical order by author’s last name If author unknown, alphabetize by title

5 Works Cited Page Works Cited Page Works Cited appears at the end of the paper on a new page. Times New Roman, size 12 Font Double space the entire page. Center the title, Works Cited, at the top of the page. If an entry runs more than one line, indent the following lines (hanging indention).

6 Don’t forget to include… Interviewee as one of your sources Last name, first name. Personal interview. Date of interview. Last name, first name. Personal interview. Date of interview. Sample: Sample: Schaefer, Helen. Personal interview. 12 Feb. 2013.

7 Works Cited Burg, David F. The Great Depression: An Eyewitness History. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1996. Print. Schaefer, Helen. Personal interview. 9 Feb. 2012. "Works Progress Administration Formed, April 8, 1935." Discovering U.S. History, 2003. Student Resource Center - Silver. Web. 3 Jan. 2010.

8 Open New Word Document in Microsoft Office Double Spacing: Click line spacing button to make document double-spaced (choose 2.0) Font: Choose Times New Roman 12 font Hanging Indention: Go to Home click Paragraph Box. Select Hanging in the Special box and change By: to 0.5”

9 If you have any questions… Go to Library Webpage and click on Oral History Pathfinder http://www.crsd.org/page/10094 http://www.crsd.org/page/10094 http://www.crsd.org/page/10094

10 In-Text Citations You must show where you found each and every fact by using in-text citations. How do you do this? Author’s last name and page # in parenthesis. If no author, then use title of article in quotation marks in parenthesis

11 Citing Sources in the Text Book: Use author’s last name (Nyquist 19). (Nyquist 19). Always include page # with book! Always include page # with book! Database: Use author’s last name (Hanna). (Hanna). If no author, use title: (“The Effects of the Korean War”).


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