Freshman Study Skills

October 2013

NON-FICTION TEXT:CITATIONS & WORKS

CITED

Here is your quote!

“It’s Friday night. Do you know where your teen-agers are?”

This is how to cite it!

“It’s Friday night. Do you know where your teen-agers are” (“All-Nighter with the ‘Odyssey’”)?

IN-TEXT CITATION/ PARENTHETHICAL

“It’s Friday night. Do you know where your teen-agers are” (Sierpina 1)?

Yellow: Your quote needs quotation marks! Blue: You need to credit the source and cite

the author and page number, if known. Red: Your punctuation (exclamation points,

period, or question mark) ALWAYS goes after the parenthesis ().

LET’S BREAK THIS UP!

Some known tools are NoodleTools.

At the end of your paper, you will provide a works cited to fully cite the source you used.

Difference between in-text & works cited: In-text citations are an abbreviated form of the citation!!!

NOW… A WORKS CITED PAGES

Works Cited

Sierpina, Diane. “All Nighter With the ‘Odyssey”. New York Times. New York Times, 14 December 1997. Web 15 October 2013.

Let’s Explain:

Green: Author’s name (last night fi rst)Blue: Article title (in quotes) Red Italics: Newspaper publicationYellow: Publisher ( in this case, it is the same as the newspaper)Purple: Date the article was publishedBrown: Day you accessed the article online

WORKS CITED FOR A NON-FICTION ARTICLE

Pick your own line & cite it to practice using in-text citations

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