Week 23: Citing Sources, MLA citation, online Citation tools

Citing Sources , to build your Bibliography, Based on Modern Language Association Citation Format

There are some online tools to help you do your citations correctly, we will use: http://easybib.com/
Your goal for day 1: create an "easybib" account, and cite one of your online articles. Copy and paste the citation into a new google doc called "bibliography-digiciti".
Your goal for day 2: create citations for all of your sources, paste them into your bibliography document.

How to do MLA citation format

This format below is for writing a bibliography.
(not footnotes or endnotes. Footnotes and endnotes differ slightly.)

A bibliographic entry has three main parts, each separated by a period:

1. the author's name, reversed for alphabetizing;
   
2. the title;
   
3. and the publication information.
   

(A footnote or endnote has four parts: the author's name in normal order, then a comma; the title; the publication information in parenthesis; then a page reference, followed by a period.)
From: Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 5th ed. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1999.

Do you know what Plagiarism is?

Take the quiz here:
QUIZ

*Notice* Term 2 report card is coming soon, March 18th
Check ease for outcomes
Evidence to be rated:

1. diigo annotated bookmarks
2. vocabulary list, google doc, 1 per team
   
3. brief outline, google doc, one per shared with all team members
4. paraphrasing research, google doc, one per student
   

Week 21: Annotation, Paraphrasing, Plagarism

Assignment: (Evidence) create a new google doc, name it "paraphrasing research", here is a SAMPLE
Steps to complete assignment:

1. open your diigo library, find articles that you have bookmarked, or find a new source article for your research topic to work with
2. annotate the article online using diigo
3. from your diigo library copy and paste at least three important annotations into your google doc
4. put quotes around the content that you have annotated(since you did not create it)
5. after each quote, paraphrase: restate the important ideas in your own words for each quote
   

Mini-lesson: We have been using Diigo to annotate the webpages that we are using as our sources for this research project.
Vocabulary as we have defined it:

Annotation: choosing bits and pieces, important parts of articles, key ideas about our topic, and highlighting them to refer to later.

Paraphrase: the process of restating in your own words, the key ideas in what we have annotated. We learned that we cannot simply change a few words or rearrange some words, we have to understand the ideas and write then in our own words or it will be plagiarism.

Plagiarism: to copy someone else's work with out permission, knowledge, or giving them credit for it. This is illegal, considered cheating or stealing.

We have to "cite" our sources. This means giving them credit and getting permission to use thieir work. this is one reason that we use Creative commons, Creativecommons.org .