Citations Info

Hi Service Specialists,

I spent the morning with three seventh grade classes (I'm doing an internship with Tava at the High School library for my masters program) teaching MLA citation. We may get some further questions on this from the kids.

The 7th graders are currently compiling their bibliographies (Works Cited pages) for reports on specific countries and may come here asking for further assistance with citation. Most of them have a book, a magazine and a couple of websites to cite. They are using CIA World Factbook, pages in which are treated like web documents. They are also relying on CultureGrams, which gets cited using the rules for subscription databases (basically the same but they also record that they accessed it through WPL).

I emailed y'all the PP presentation that I put together and showed them this morning. I also worked with some of them in the HS tech lab and the major questions they had were about formatting (can be obnoxious in MS Word) and where to find the authors, dates, and titles within web resources.

If you have questions not addressed in the Powerpoint, check out this resource from Purdue. There are examples for what to do with complicated or just out of the norm situations.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/

Thanks in advance for helping!

Sarah