TAUNTON HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY INFORMATION LITERACY CURRICULUM

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TAUNTON HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY INFORMATION
LITERACY CURRICULUM
Using Information
Ethical Use Citing Sources

• Created by Mary C. Davis Library Media Specialist

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Its Your Responsibility!

• Anytime you do research, it is your
  responsibility to CITE the sources
• in which you find information.
• This is the part of research called
• ETHICAL USE.

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When you act in an ethical manner, you do the
right thing.
When it comes to doing research, the right thing
is to cite your sources of information whether
they are...
Print
Electronic
Human
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Your final product may be
Visual
Written
Oral
The format or medium doesnt matter.
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What Does Matter

• is that you give credit to any author or
  producer or other originator of information that
  you use to support your thesis statement or main
  idea.

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Within the text of your product, you provide
brief parenthetical citations for the source to
which you are referring. The following is an
example of a parenthetical citation Numerous
studies show that the practice of Sustained
Silent Reading (SSR) has a positive effect on
student comprehension (Krashen, 44).
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At the end of your product, you provide a Works
Cited list with a complete description of each
source you used. The example below is a citation
for the Works Cited list for an article in a
print magazine Krashen, Stephen. "Free
Reading." School Library Journal Sept 2006 43.
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Depending upon the type of source, the citation
varies slightly.
Book
Print Periodical
Video or DVD
Encyclopedia
Website
Specialized Reference Book
Subscription Database
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An Article or Publication Retrieved from an
Subscription Database

• Author(s). Title of Article. Publication Name.
  Publication Date Page Numbers. Database Name.
  Vendor. Date of Access
• Stanley, David. George Washingtons Travels.
  American Heritage. April/May 2005 54-57.
  Expanded Academic ASAP.

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A Book with One Author
Authors Name (Last name first). Title of Book.
City Publisher, Date.
Smith, John. My Jamestown Adventure. Boston
Houghton Mifflin,1929.
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An Article in an Encyclopedia

• Authors Name (if given). Title of Article.
  Title of Encyclopedia. Edition. Date.
• Jamestown. World Book Encyclopedia. 2005.

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An Article in a Specialized Reference Book

• Authors Name (last name first). Title of
  Article. Title of Reference Book. Editor. Volume
  . City Publisher, Date.
• Housman, A.E. William Wordsworth. Critical
  Survey of Poetry. Ed. by Frank Magill. V.6.
  Detroit Gale, 2008.

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A Website

• Author(s). Name of Page. Date of Posting/Revision
  
• Name of Institution/Organization Affiliated with
  Site. Date of Access .
• Robins, James. Humans Our Story. 8 April 2008
  International Science Consortium. 12 June 2008
• http//www.interscicon.org.

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A Video or DVD

• Title. Director and lead actors or narrator
  ("Perf." or "Narr."). "Videocassette" or "DVD."
  Distributor and the year of the film's release.
• Finding Neverland. Dir. Marc Forster. Perf.
  Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet,Julie Christie, Radha
  Mitchell, and Dustin Hoffman. Miramax, 2004.

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Additional Citation Information

• Hacker, Diane. Humanities Documenting
  Sources. Research and Documentation Online.
  Bedford St. Martins Books. 27/06/08
• http//www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/
• MLA Formatting and Style Guide. The Owl at
  Purdue. 2008 Purdue University. 27/06/08
• http//owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01
  

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Works Cited

• All graphics used in this presentation are
  Microsoft Office ClipArt with the following
  exceptions,
• cover of WorldBook Encyclopedia (World Book,
  Inc.)
• cover of American Writers (Charles Scribners
  Sons)
• cover of Time Magazine (Time Inc.)
• logo of Literary Reference Center (EBSCO)