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The technology committee would like students to cite resources when doing any original writing. Our concern is that student research used in student writing properly credit the source. In other words, when you use words, ideas or information from a publication or other source you have used information supplied by others.  "These debts to others should be acknowledged through the use of footnotes." 1 Footnotes are only one style of citation that you may use.  You may use the author/date citation method also, it requires that you show in the text: the name(s) of the author(s) the date of publication of the edition used and the pages in the publication from which you obtained the words, ideas or information you used.  You must also show in the bibliography or list of references at the end of your work, the complete reference details needed to find the source of the words, ideas or information you used.2  Remember, you probably used
many different types of sources and the form of the citation may be different for a book than it is for a magazine!  Whatever style (example MLA) you use will require you to place a list of all the sources at the bottom of the page. This list of sources cited is usually called a bibliography and may be attached to the end of your paper but in the case of a web site RRCNet requests you place this bibliograph or "works cited" at the bottom of the page.

EXAMPLES OF FOOTNOTES THE FIRST TIME A SOURCE IS ACKNOWLEDGED


FOR A SIGNED PAMPHLET

     1Lorraine F. Dangle, Preparing the Research Paper (New York, N.Y.,
College Entrance Book Company, 1963), p. 12.
 

FOR A MLA-Style Citation of an Electronic Source

     2Walker, Janice R..
           Burka, Lauren P.  "Columbia Style to Online"        
           1993.
           http://www.utopia.com/talent/lpb/muddex/essay
           (17 Feb. 1997).
 

references
     1Lorraine F. Dangle, Preparing the Research Paper (New York, N.Y.,
College Entrance Book Company, 1963), p. 12.
 
 

     2Walker, Janice R..
           Burka, Lauren P.  "Columbia Style to Online"        
           1993.
           http://www.utopia.com/talent/lpb/muddex/essay
           (17 Feb. 1997).
 

FOR WEB PAGES
Place a back button or the RRCNET logo with a link to home toward the bottom of the page.
                                         Place an authority statement at the bottom of your page with the date of the last revision.

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Mr. Nordby
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