STEPPING STONES
STONES across a STREAM: an ANALOGY for DOCUMENTATION
· whenever you borrow info (use material found in your sources)
o either in a "direct quote" or a paraphrasing
· you'll cite after that sentence
o cite immediately, not eventually
o so...if you have 3 sentences in a row w/borrowed info (& it's not a block quote), then you'll cite after each of those sentences (rather than just once at the end of the 3rd)
§ this way, the reader knows exactly whose idea is whose (yours vs. sources & source vs. source)
§ plus, if material is taken from different places within the same source, we have to reflect that in the citation (which the "at the end" cite doesn't/can't do)
o these are called parenthetical or in-text citations
§ & EVERY body para. will have at least one
§ in a previous email I sent examples of the common citation forms
§ (Smith par.5). or ("Type II Diabetes" 'Causes').
§ no dates, no URLs
o their function is to help readers find this info you've borrowed/referenced
§ they get us readers to the Works Consulted page at the end of the paper
§ & from there we can get to the source
· on this Works Consulted page
o will be a list of bibliographic citations
§ (that material which began our Abstracts - but nothing else from our abstracts)
o these will be a list of ALL the sources you've consulted for the paper
o whether or not you actually cited them in-text
o so you will have a minimum of 5 sources here
o you don't have to use all of them in the essay
o they will follow the MLA format style
§ for a Web Article:
§ Last, First. "Article Title." Site Name. Site Publisher, Date of Post. Web. Date of Access. <full URL>.
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