Assignment+3+-+Source+Citation+Exercise

** Summer 2011 **
 * RLS 514: Teaching Research to Children and Adolescents **

** APA, MLA, Chicago Style: The Alphabet Soup of Source Citations ** ** Due July 6, 2011 by 5pm **

We are regarded as “research experts” by our students and as such, need to be well versed in the process of citing sources within the text of a paper and in works cited/references/bibliography creation. It is helpful to construct bibliographic citations the “old fashioned way” (that is, by hand) to see the component parts of the citations under different styles. Through this process, you can spot the inherent flaws in the online citation services such as Citation Machine and EasyBib and be able to guide students in the correct formatting of citations.

For this project you’ll write citations for four common forms of sources in the three most frequently used styles, APA, MLA and Chicago.

Select a book, a magazine article, a website page and a primary document. It does not matter what source materials are used.

Write the correct bibliographic citation for each one under the three styles. For example, your book citation would look like this:

APA: Palfrey, J. & Gasser, U. (2008). //Born digital//. New York: Basic Books.
 * Book **

MLA: Palfrey, John and Urs Gasser. //Born Digital//. New York: Basic Books, 2008. Print.

Chicago: Palfrey, John and Urs Gasser. //Born Digital//. New York: Basic Books, 2008.

Follow that with citations for the other three sources you’ve selected for a total of 12 citations.


 * Please email this document to me as a .doc, .docx or .pdf file to lmdiekman@sbcglobal.net with a copy to linda.diekman@nl.edu by 5pm on Wednesday, July 6, 2011. ** I will respond to your email indicating receipt of your work.

APA is the style published by the American Psychological Association and is the preferred citation source for the social sciences including education. Sources cited for this class should be in APA style. In APA, the bibliographic citation list at the end of the paper has the heading “References.” Citations in the body of the paper are “in-text” citations.
 * Notes: **

MLA is the style published by the Modern Language Association and is the preferred citation source for the humanities and English courses. Most high schools use MLA style for all subjects. In MLA, the bibliographic citation list at the end of the paper has the heading “Works Cited.” Citations in the body of the paper are “in-text” citations.

Chicago is the preferred citation source for history courses. In Chicago style, the bibliographic citation list at the end of the paper has the heading “Bibliography.” Citations to support the body of the paper are constructed as Chicago style footnotes or endnotes.

Primary documents are materials that are original sources of information and may include photographs, letters, memos or emails. They are documents created as first-hand documents and have not been commented upon by others. Primary source documents can be presented in many formats. We are familiar with the Declaration of Independence, a famous primary document. Your own life is filled with many less famous artifacts that qualify as primary sources.

Consider investing in an up-to-date writing guide such as //A Pocket Style Manual// by Diana Hacker or //The St. Martin’s Handbook// by Andrea Lunsford to assist you in your own writing and research. If you are supporting students using MLA style, the //MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers// //(Seventh Edition)// is the most current version and contains significant changes in that style from earlier editions.

NLU’s Center for Academic Development [] Purdue University Online Writing Lab [] American Psychological Association/APA Style [] Arthur C. Banks Library at Capital Community College, Hartford, CT []
 * Sources on APA and other styles: **