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Citation Test Study Guide
Full Citations
You must be able to…
· Complete a citation for a book, given a picture of the book’s cover and publication information
· Complete a citation for a website (either whole site or article—you will have to decide based on the information given), given a screenshot of that website
**You may use your yellow sheet to complete these
**Citations MUST include proper punctuation: periods, quotation marks, italics, etc.
In-Text Citations
You must be able to…
· Correctly cite a given sentence from a book
· Correctly cite the sentence using ellipses
· Correctly cite the sentence using brackets
· Correctly cite a sentence containing dialogue
· Correctly cite a sentence ending with ! or ?
Citation Sandwich
You must be able to…
· Label the parts of a citation sandwich and list the information that should be given in each part
· Label/ annotate an example of a citation sandwich
· Explain why the citation sandwich is importantà what does it help you do?
· Explain the purpose of each part of the citation sandwich
· Explain why you should NEVER end a paragraph with a citation
Works Cited Page/General Knowledge
You must be able to answer the following questions:
· What goes in the top right-hand corner of the Works Cited page?
· What title does the page get?
· How is the title formatted?
· How are sources ordered on the page?
· How do you order sources that don’t have an author?
· What do you do with articles (a, an, the) if they are the first word of a title?
· How do you indent the entries on a Works Cited page?
· How do you space a Works Cited page?
· Do you list any source that you have read but not cited in the body of your paper?
· What is the relationship between the in-text citations and the Works Cited page?
· Do you have to cite a paraphrase? Does putting source material in your own words magically make ideas your own?
Relating In-Text Citations to Full Citations
You must be able to…
· Show what you would put in parentheses if you were to make an in-text citation for several different sources on an example Works Cited page
· In so doing, demonstrate that you understand the relationship between an in-text citation and the full citation