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![How to format entries…
GeneralWebpage:
■ Title of Page. Date page was published. Organization or Owner of Page. Date you
accessed the page. <entire URL>
■ WORKS CITED ENTRY EXAMPLE:
SpaceTelescope Science Institute Home Page. 20 November, 1997. NASA. 28 October, 2004.
<http://www.stici.edu>.
– NOTE: If you are struggling to identify a page title, look at the internet tab at the top of your page.
■ PARENTHETICAL CITATION EXAMPLE:
Through ample research, one will discover how the goal of the Office of Public Outreach is to “[meet]
the needs of the general public and science communicators by connecting to three user communities:
news media, online audiences, and venues offering in-person interactions” (SpaceTelescope Science).
– This should be the first word for few words in theWorks Cited Entry, which will usually be the title
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- 1. Reliable vs. UnreliableSources ■ Reliable Sources =TRUSTWORTHY SOURCES – Written by experts in that particular field ■ Unreliable Sources = SOURCESTHAT CAN BE ALTERED BY ANYONE – sources, such asWikipedia, are not reliable because the authors may not have a thorough knowledge or full understanding of a topic
- 2. Example of ReliableSources • Book • Newspapers and magazines • Peer reviewed journals • Peer reviewed articles • PhD or MBA dissertations and research • Public library • Scholarly articles
- 3. How will IKNOW if its RELIABLE?? ■ To determine reliability of online sites and organizations, look at the URL’s ending: – If the site ends in .edu, it is most likely a reliable educational institution. – If the site ends in .gov, it is most likely a reliable government website.These sites usually provide good sources for statistics and objective reports. – If the site ends in .org, it is usually a reliable non-profit organization. ■ News sources: – Every television and print news source has a website – Beware! Sometimes their focus is to entertain rather than inform** WITH ANY SOURCEYOU MUST CHECKTHE AUTHORTO DETERMINE RELIABILITY
- 4. Examples of UnreliableSources • Wikipedia: although this is a good starting point for finding initial ideas about a topic, some of their information and attached resources may not be reliable • Blogs, tweets • Personal websites • Forums • Sites created by organizations that may have political or biased agendas • Sites that provide biased information • Self-published sources • Opinionated articles such as editorials • Online sources with an URL that ends in html, which is the basic building blocks of web pages • Some online sources with an URL that end in .com are unreliable: • Sites of companies that conduct their business over the internet. Some of these sites are unreliable because they have hidden agendas. • THINK: are they trying to sell me something?A product? An idea?
- 5. Works Cited ■ Youneed FIVE citations in MLA format on your works cited page. ■ Your entries need to be in Alphabetical order based off of the first word in the entry ■ If the entry goes past the first line, you need to make a hanging indention. This is done by pressing “enter” and then “tab” Hudson, Elizabeth. “Hanging Out with the Bats.” Texas Highways August 1994; Pages 14-19.
- 6. How to formatentries… Book, one author: ■ Last name, First name. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publishing Company, year of publication. ■ WORKS CITED ENTRY EXAMPLE – Weinburg, Steven. Dreams of a FinalTheory. NewYork: Pantheon, 1992. ■ PARENTHTICAL CITATION EXAMPLE: One may see how “all logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically” (Weinburg 25). – Parenthetical citations are simply you stating where you found this information in the actual paper. Anything that did not come from your brain will have a parenthetical citation.
- 7. How to formatentries… GeneralWebpage: ■ Title of Page. Date page was published. Organization or Owner of Page. Date you accessed the page. <entire URL> ■ WORKS CITED ENTRY EXAMPLE: SpaceTelescope Science Institute Home Page. 20 November, 1997. NASA. 28 October, 2004. <http://www.stici.edu>. – NOTE: If you are struggling to identify a page title, look at the internet tab at the top of your page. ■ PARENTHETICAL CITATION EXAMPLE: Through ample research, one will discover how the goal of the Office of Public Outreach is to “[meet] the needs of the general public and science communicators by connecting to three user communities: news media, online audiences, and venues offering in-person interactions” (SpaceTelescope Science). – This should be the first word for few words in theWorks Cited Entry, which will usually be the title of the page.
- 8. How to formatentries… An article from an online database: ■ Last name, first name. “ArticleTitle.” OriginalJournal fromWhich it Came. Edition orVolume number. (Year of publication): Page numbers. Title of Database. Web. Access Date. ■ WORKS CITED ENTRY EXAMPLE: Langhamer,Claire. “Love and Courtship in Mid-Twentieth-Century England.” Historical Journal. 50.1 (2007): 173-96. ProQuest. Web. 27 May, 2009. ■ PARENTHETICAL CITATION EXAMPLE: (Langhamer 25)—If author not given, give the title of the article in quotation marks inside the parentheses.
- 9. WHATYOU NEED INLAB ■ Google Scholar ■ Destiny ■ NCWise Owl PAY ATTENTIONTOTHEWEBSITES MRS. STRANGE SHOWSYOU Scholarly, peer-reviewed articles and books
- 10. Work Cited Austin PeayState University. “Reliable and Unreliable Sources”. Academic Support CenterWriting Lab. Oct 29 2012. Web.