how to write source cards for research papers
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How to Write Source Cardsfor Research Papers
The Research Paper
Essentials of a Good Paragraph
• Thesis statement– One or two sentences in the end of the
introductory paragraph that clarify the main ideas and lays out focus of the entire essay• Example:
– While both sides fought the Civil War over the issue of slavery, the North fought for moralreasons while the South fought to preserve its own institutions.
Essentials of a Good Paragraph• Main idea
– The first sentence in each paragraph; they serve to control each paragraph.
• Details– The other sentences in
the paragraph are called details.
– Describe or explain the main idea.
Essentials of Research Papers
• Plagiarism– Using or imitating the language and
thoughts of another author. • Copying and pasting from the internet• Any phrase that contains three words or
more from any source
Essentials of Research Papers• Quotations
– must be identical to the original, using a narrow segment of the source. They must match the source document word for word and must be attributed to the original author.
• Paraphrasing– putting a passage from source material into your own
words. – A paraphrase must give credit to the original source. – usually shorter than the original passage
• Summarizing– putting the main idea(s) into your own words, including
only the main point(s). – Necessary to attribute summarized ideas to the original
source.
Sources and Resources• The Sources include the
following:– Internet, Database, Textbook, Book ,
Magazine– Research papers must have a
minimum of three different sources which will appear as WORKS CITED entries.
• The Source card– contains a source you plan to use
to strengthen the statements in your paragraph.
Sources and Resources
• The Resource card – Contains the information (summary,
paraphrase, or quote from the source you are using.)
Types of sources• Database
– A collection of organized online sources that include information from books, magazines, newspaper articles.
• Types of databases: FirstSearch, Information Please• Online source
– Includes information from web sites– Must have a date, an author, and a title in order to be legitimate– Avoid .com online sources
• MLA Style– A set of national guidelines that explain formatting for research– Papers.
• Most colleges ask students to use this style for papers. • Works Cited
– A listing of the sources used in the research paper
Decoding Internet Sources
• .com = commerce, business • .edu = educational institution• .org = organization• .gov = government• .html= hyper text markup
language
WIKIPEDIA SOURCE
CITE THIS PAGE
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Macbeth&oldid=176726711
Sample Internet Source CardSource #1
Linder, Douglass. "The Witchcraft Trials in Salem: A Commentary” 8 Oct. 1997. 10 November 2008 <http://www. bradley.edu/campusorg/psiphi/DS9/ep/503r.html>.
1. Author(s) 2. Title of web site 3. Date last updated or created 4. Date of access5. <web site address>.
Sample Internet Source CardResource #1
“Talk of witchcraft increased when other playmates of Betty, including eleven-year-old Ann Putnam, seventeen-year-old Mercy Lewis, and Mary Walcott, began to exhibit similar unusual behavior. When his own nostrums failed to effect a cure, William Griggs, a doctor called to examine the girls, suggested that the girls' problems might have a supernatural origin. The widespread belief that witches targeted children made the doctor's diagnosis seem increasing likely.”
Main idea(s): Children affected
Sample Textbook Source CardTextbook
Title of TextbookEdition (if applicable).Editor(s) name(s) listed Ed., then first name, then last. City Published (include state if city is unfamiliar): Publisher. Copyright date (most recent). Pages of selection
The Language of Literature.Evanston: McDougal Littell. 2006.Pages 323-416
Sample Book Source Card
Frye, Northrop. Fools of Time: Studies in Shakespearean Tragedy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1967.
Book
Author’s Last Name, First Name Middle Initial. Title of Book. City of Publication:Publisher, Year of Publication.
Sample Periodical Source Card
Article Author’s Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Journal Title. Issue Number and or Volume (Publication Year): Pages of Article.
Periodical
Kimbrough, Robert. "Macbeth: Prisoner of Gender," Shakespeare Studies. Vol.16 (1983), pp.175-190.