Transcript What are you citing?

What are they? Why do we need them?
What are you citing? And when do you cite it?
Let’s look at an example from an article packet…
Watchdog questions Ottawa's story on body scans questioned
Section: News, pg. A01
Transport Minister John Baird says travelers under 18 won't be
subjected to new full-body scanners at airports because they
can't give legal consent.
But this reasoning comes right out of the blue to a federal privacy
official. "That's their own conclusion," said assistant privacy
commissioner Chantal Bernier
Concerns have been raised in Europe that body scans on minors
could amount to child pornography. Full story, A6
This is what shows up at the end of
your articles:
Copyright (c) 2010 Toronto Star, All Rights
Reserved.
Works Cited
"Watchdog questions Ottawa's story on body
scans questioned." Toronto Star (Canada) n.d.:
Newspaper Source. EBSCO. Web. 11 Jan. 2010.
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=tr
ue&db=nfh&AN=6FP1242056341&site=srclive&scope=site
But what do I do with that?
Let’s create the MLA Citation
Lastname, Firstname. “Title of Article.” Title of Book. Editor (written as “Ed.
____). Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of
Publication.
Directions: Fill in the blanks with the correct information from the article provided
above. If any information is
missing, exclude this from your citation. Take the information gathered and arrange in the
format provided above.
Remember that the second line of a citation (and any line after that) is always indented.
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Author's Name: ______________
Editor: __________________
Year: __________
Title of Article:
Place of Publication: _____________________
Medium (Magazine? Newspaper?) : __________________
Title of Book:
Publisher: _____________________________
This is also at the end of all of your articles!!!
Why is this important?
 Let’s fill in the blanks…
Author's Name: doesn’t seem to be there
Editor: Also doesn’t seem to be there
Year: January 2010
Title of Article: “Watchdog questions Ottawa's story on body scans questioned”
Place of Publication: Toronto, Canada
Medium (Magazine? Newspaper?) : Newspaper
Title of Book: not a book , but a newspaper – the Toronto Star
Publisher:
(***Remember the directions -- Fill in the blanks with the correct information from the article
provided above. If any information is missing, exclude this from your citation. Take the
information gathered and arrange in the format provided above. Remember that the second line
of a citation (and any line after that) is always indented. ***)
Works cited page… what would it
look like?
This is what your final source information will look like
on your Works Cited Page.
"Watchdog questions Ottawa's story on body scans
questioned." Toronto Star (Canada) n.d.: Newspaper Source.
EBSCO. Web. 11 Jan. 2010.
But Ms. Ledlow, what would this look like
on an actual works cited page?
Glad you asked.
Look familiar? It should!
A Works Cited
page is just like
an Annotated
Bibliography, but
with no
summaries!
Your Works Cited Page…
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Your Works Cited Page will always:
Be the last page of your paper
Will have your last name and page number in
the header
Will always have the sources listed in ABC
order
Will only include the sources you cited
(quoted) in your paper
Citations
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2.
A citation is what you include after you have quoted on of your sources
Citations include:
Author’s last name
Page number (the page # of the article on which you found the quote)
It looks something like this…
Blah, blah, blah, and blah, “blah, blah, and more blah” (Carroll 3).
*** Notice that the punctuation mark is outside the parenthesis***
But Ms. Ledlow, what if there is no author?!?!
Again, Glad you asked.
If the article that you have chosen does not have an
author, you cite the source using the first (important)
word of the article.
That looks at little something like this:
Blah, Blah, Blah, and Blah, “blah, blah, and more
blah” (“Watchdog” 1).
Get the picture?
GOOD!