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Aim: How do we begin the research process?
Do Now: What are your ideas for your research question? Share them
with a partner.
Primary vs. Secondary Sources
Your primary source will be the text that
you’ve chosen to focus on.
The secondary sources will be books,
chapters, articles, essays, criticisms, etc
that are related to your primary source.
For Example: If you working on Hamlet, your primary source will be Hamlet and your secondary
sources will be essays or articles on Hamlet, such as T.S. Eliot’s essay, “Hamlet and His Problems” and
Ernest Jones’ book, Hamlet and Oedipus.
HamletBy
William Shakespeare
“Hamlet and His Problems”
By T.S. Eliot
Hamlet and Oedipus
ByErnest Jones
Verifying a source. You must look for key facts about your source in
order to use it:
Author
Credible Institution
Publication
Copyright Date or Date of Publication
.edu and .gov
Going online…
MLA Format – Citing a Book
Book
• Last name, Firstname. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.
• Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. New York: New American Library, 1962. Print.
• Can you provide a citation for As I Lay Dying?
MLA Format – Citing an Online Source
Author and/or editor names (if available)
Article name in quotation marks (if applicable)
Title of the Website, project, or book in italics.
Any version numbers available, including revisions, posting dates, volumes, or issue numbers.
Publisher information, including the publisher name and publishing date.
Take note of any page numbers (if available).
Medium of publication.
Date you accessed the material.
URL (if required, or for your own personal reference; MLA does not require a URL).
MLA Format – Citing an Online Source
Online
Source
• Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). Name of Site. Version number. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), date
of resource creation (if available). Medium of publication. Date of access.
• Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical Theory. Purdue U, 28 Nov. 2003. Web. 10 May 2006.
Useful links:https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/http://lib.gccaz.edu/lmc/help/citations/MLACiteElec.pdf
Still unsure?• Email me your source or link…• mailto:[email protected]
• Be sure to indicate why you might want to use this source and your reasons for not being sure about it. If you send me an email with just a web address and no explanation, I will not respond.