1. How to Properly Cite in Academic Writing

2. Understanding…
If you borrow IDEAS or WORDS from other texts to put into YOUR paper, you must cite them.
Give credit to the original author for their thinking or writing.
Avoid plagiarism
Allow your paper’s reader to do further research on your topic using the same texts you used.

3. Professional Examples

4. Words, statistics, facts
Literary Analysis
Ideas
Words, statistics, facts

5. Document-Based Question (DBQ)

6. How to Cite…
1) Be mentally prepared to cite your source in TWO locations in your paper.
a. IN the body of the text (In-text citations)
b. At the END of your paper (works cited page)
2) For each source you use, create a full works cited entry for that source.
a. This will go in your works cited page.
Look at that works cited entry and determine what to use as the in-text cite!

7. For example…

8. Tools that will help…
We use MLA formatting!

9. Steps… Pick a source. Pick a tool / website for formatting.
Input the information for that text.
Examine the full works cited entry. Place on works cited page.
Take the FIRST “item” of that works cited entry as your IN-TEXT citation. Use in the text whenever you cite from that source.
Be sure to add the PAGE NUMBER you are pulling from, if available, in the in-text citation!

10. Example

11. Multiple texts with authors with same last names.
In-Text Citation
(J. Smith 56) or (P. Smith 78)
Works Cited Entries
Smith, John. Books about D-Day…..
Smith, Patty. Exciting Book about Everything but D-Day…

12. No Author Listed for a Text
Often happens with websites!!
"D-Day." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 11 Sept
Take FIRST part of entry and that becomes your in-text citation.
(“D-Day”)
Notice that the text’s punctuation is in the parenthesis also!
Quotes for article, short story, poem titles.
Italics or underlining for book, movie, TV titles
Notice that the URL is NOT in the in-text citation!

13. DBQ Short Cut
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14. In Short… EVERY text you learned from must be cited.
EVERY text you cited text or ideas from must be cited.
Your in-text citation should align with the works cited page.
And vice versa!
Instructors and readers should be able to find the EXACT source you used to shape your thesis, ideas, and claims!