Citation MachineTHIS IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT LESSON! MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR NOTEBOOK OUT FOR NOTES!

Warm Up

In your writer’s notebook, spend a few minutes jotting down your thinking about this questions: What is citation? What is the purpose of a citation? When is citation appropriate?

What is citation?

A line taken from a piece of work (book, speech, website, magazine) and used as a quote.

What is the purpose of a citation?

to avoid plagiarism, to assign proper authority to a statement Well, what is PLAGIARISM?

pla‧gia‧ris‧m /ˈpleɪdʒərɪzəm/ ●○○ noun  1 [uncountable] when someone uses another person’s words, ideas, or work and pretends they are their own

 The journal accused the professor of plagiarism.2 [countable] an idea, phrase, or story that has been copied from another person’s work, without stating where it came from

http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/plagiarism

More on plagiarism

WHY WE CITE SOURCES IN ACADEMIC PAPERS A WRITING CENTRE HANDOUT Plagiarism is academic misconduct. Plagiarism might involve:

 using another person’s writing as your own  misrepresenting your research (excluding used sources or including unused sources (“padding”) in your bibliography)  paraphrasing too closely  misrepresenting an author’s argument

In the worst case scenario, plagiarism can get you expelled from university. While some students do plagiarize intentionally, the majority of students do it unintentionally.

Why do we cite?

1. We cite in order to distinguish between citation and interpretation. 1. How can you demonstrate which ideas and insights are yours if the reader can’t tell where your

citations end and your interpretation of them begins? 2. We cite in order to show how knowledge is formed.

1. Citation shows where you got your understanding of a given topic and whose ideas you’re building upon – it demonstrates the extent to which your argument is reliable.

3. We cite sources in order to demonstrate context and significance. 1. Citation helps you develop an argument that addresses the proverbial “so what?” question.

https://legacy.wlu.ca//forms/1693/Why_We_Cite_Sources_in_Academic_Papers_(revised).pdf

When is a citation appropriate?

When you use, reference or quote someone else’s work in any way, shape or form.

Someone else’s work is work that did not come organically from your mind.

A citation proves that you are giving credit where credit is due!

Citations are a process

The first step in the citation process is finding evidence to support your claim.

This evidence comes from a source (in our case, our class novel) and the source will need to be cited to give credit to the author of that source.

Let’s look at an example…

Example Claims

1. China is the largest nation in the world.2. A McDonald’s Big Mac® has 550 calories.3. Google is the most used search engine.

Where would you look for evidence to support these claims? Why would you need to cite these claims?

Supporting Claims

Wherever you find evidence to support these claims, you need to cite those sources.

Today, we are going to have a citation competition.

Here is a citation example from “Catching Fire”- From the Hunger Games Series

Your Inference

Proof!

Now, it is our turn

We are going to pull citations from our class novel. We are going to share their favorite piece of evidence to their

classmates.  We are toing to support the excerpts from our book and can be written

in the word doc that is attached. We will use the information in this chart in our literary essays to support

our thinking about our class novel.

Your Homework Is to complete the word doc that is attached. There is a chart in the word doc that will need to be filled out based on

your thinking about our class novel. Take you time, be creative and think hard. This is all good stuff!