Monday, September 30 ~ EQ: Could I be faster or smarter than Easybib.com?

RESEARCH

Review:

• What goes into an annotation? How many sentences for each?

Journal 20: CITATION NOTES

• Click here for the Purdue OWL complete guide.
• This is the general format:

Example Citation: What is the order of parts here? Why is each type of punctuation used?

Bernstein, Mark, Chand Monfreda and David Zaks. “10 Tips on 

         Writing the Living Web.” A List Apart: For People Who 

         Make Websites, N.P., 16 Aug. 2002, alistapart.com/article/

         writeliving. Accessed 4 May 2009.

Record this general format for electronic sources:

Author. "Title of Article." Title of Container,
      Other contributors or editors, Publisher,
      Publication date, url or doi. Access date.

Practice: Let's do one together. Click here for the article.

• Some check points: 
• What if a piece of information is missing? 
• Do I ever write anonymous? 
• What if I can't find a publisher date? 
• What is the container? 
• How do I write multiple author names? 
• What format should the date be in? 
• Where can I cut a url to drop to the next line? 

HW: Start citing your articles. Work for 30 minutes uninterrupted and see how many you can do. Record any questions that come up as Journal 21: Citation questions, struggles, ahahs.