Citation

Scholarly Etiquette and The Anatomy of a Citation

Scholarly Etiquette

What is it?

What does it mean for this class?

There are several levels of scholarly etiquette we are concerned with in this course:

Daily Interactions

Writing Style

Papers and Projects

Scholarly Etiquette: Daily Interactions

Common courtesy in class discussions and blog postings

Respect your classmates and group members

allow them to speak without interruption

respond to each others comments fairly, even when you disagree

Make sure that all group members are having input in group discussions and decisions.

Scholarly Etiquette: Writing Style

Informal technologies, formal writing style

When using the blogs and Google docs, remember that you are being graded on your grammar and style even though these are informal communication technologies.

Use spell check and always re-read your assignments before they are due-those squiggly green and red lines mean something!

Writing style doesn’t have to be overly elaborate, but don’t drop into slang, especially when writing in emails (and especially to other professors).

Scholarly Etiquette: Papers and Projects

Research and writing

locating and reading various pieces of information written by others and then creating a work of your own.

Citations and Bibliographies

show the research you have done

give credit to those who did the work

list where future researchers can find that information

By showing where you located your information and on what you base your conclusions, your own work carries more significance to your reader.

What citation styles have you used?

MLA

APA

Chicago

Turabian

Other

What’s a citation style??

Why is proper citation important?

Helps future researchers find relevant resources

Provides acknowledgement for the research done before

It’s not important

Just imagine…..

You need to locate info on an item written by Gauntlett and you have a bibliography that looks like THIS

How about this one?

Style Guides

Provide standards for formatting papers (fonts, title pages, etc.)

Provide standards for in-text citations, endnotes, footnotes, etc.

Provide standards for the final works cited list.

Several popular ones:

MLA: Humanities

APA: Social Sciences

Chicago: Various

Scientific

Basics of MLA Style Formatting

Spacing

Indents

Author’s Name

Capitalization

Underlining

Subtitles

Place of publication

Electronic versions

Samples: Reference Article

Smith, John. “Ulysses S. Grant.”

Encyclopedia of the Civil War . Ed. Tom

Jones. 5 vols. New York: Random House,

2007.

"Grant, Ulysses S." Encyclopædia Britannica .

2007. Encyclopædia Britannica Online.

19 July 2007

< http://search.eb.com/eb/article-9037734 >.

Samples - Books

Smith, John. This is My Book . New York:

Random House, 2007.

Jones, Tom. “How I Know John Smith.” Ed.

John Smith. This is My Book . New York:

Random House, 2007. 100-125.

Samples: Journal Articles

Smith, John. “The Results of my Research.”

Journal of General Science 14 (1): 2007.

100-125.

Smith, John. “The Results of my Research.”

Journal of General Science 14 (1): 2007.

100-125. JSTOR 17 July 2007

<http://jstor.org>

Sample: Web Site

“ Children’s Advertising and Gender Roles.”

MediaFamily.org. National Institute on

Media and the Family. 24 April 2007.

<http://www.mediafamily.org/facts/facts_

Children.shtml>.

When trying to locate an item from a bibliography

First determine what type of source it is

Book

Book chapter

Journal Article

Magazine Article

Newspaper article

Web site

Then pay close attention to the parts of the citation so you can locate it.

'If This Be Error': How Shall the Poem Be Translated? Five Modern Views of Shakespeare By: Bjorklund, Beth; Language and Style: An International Journal, 1983 Winter; 16 (1): 3-22

Book Citation

Book Chapter

Journal Article

'If This Be Error': How Shall the Poem Be Translated? Five Modern Views of Shakespeare By: Bjorklund, Beth; Language and Style: An International Journal, 1983 Winter; 16 (1): 3-22

Volume 1983

Volume 1

Volume 16

Volume 3-22

Poetry in Motion: Animating Shakespeare By: Osborne, Laurie E.;. pp. 103-20 IN: Boose, Lynda E. (ed.); Burt, Richard (ed.); Shakespeare, the Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, and Video. London, England: Routledge; 1997. x, 277 pp.

Book Citation

Book Chapter Citation

Journal Citation

Poetry in Motion: Animating Shakespeare By: Osborne, Laurie E.;. pp. 103-20 IN: Boose, Lynda E. (ed.); Burt, Richard (ed.); Shakespeare , the Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, and Video. London, England: Routledge; 1997. x, 277 pp.

277 page chapter

17 page chapter

1 page chapter

Mo(u)rning in America: Hamlet, Reagan, and the Rights of Memory By: Raphael, Timothy; Theatre Journal, 2007 Mar; 59 (1): 1-20 In this citation, the #59 is…….

Page Number

Volume Number

Issue Number

Date

The Year's Work in Service Studies: Shakespeare, 2005 By: Evett, David; Modern Philology: Critical and Historical Studies in Literature, Medieval Through Contemporary, 2007 Feb; 104 (3): 412-29 How long is this article??