Type I

• Why is it important to document sources?

• Why is using a style guide (MLA) important?– OGT SA Response (4 points)

Recording Sources

Source Cards

Source Cards

• 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.

Source Cards

Source NumberCitation

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 <http://www.cogpscyc.com.htbin>.

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.

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), …

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

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.

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?