Sep 08 2010
Strategies for Teaching Students How to Cite Sources – Tips Adapted from our Rhetorics
Writing: A Manual for the Digital Age by David Blakesley and Jeffrey L. Hoogeveen
- Talk about citation as a rhetorical strategy
- Define and discuss common knowledge
- Teach note-taking strategies that facilitate citation
- Discuss examples of effective and ineffective citations
- List a variety of citation styles and discuss their connections to disciplinary values/beliefs
- Work through citation examples as a class
- Show students how to create hanging indentations (see technology tip below)
Everything’s an Argument by Andrea A. Lunsford and John J. Ruszkiewicz
- Discuss what documenting sources has to do with composing arguments
- Consider how citation systems are adapted for non-academic writing
- Examine how documentation styles vary by discipline
- Compare the similarities and differences between two prevalent citation systems
- Work through creating citations for some common – and sometimes difficult to cite – sources
The Academic Writer by Lisa Ede
- Examine how citation entries vary depending on the type of source (and by extension, how you can predict the type of source based on the citation)
- Create source maps for citations of commonly used source types (see p. 316 for an example)
Meeting of Minds by Patsy Callaghan and Ann Dobyns
- Discuss citation/documentation as part of the research process
- Teach both in-text and works cited/reference list citation strategies