I appreciate the time so many of you have taken to share information about citing sources for my niece.  She is new at teaching middle school students and has assigned them a research topic.  She wants to be sure they learn early on to respect and give credit for what others have written.  I believe that’s what you mean by the concept of citation.  Beyond that, though, she’d like to introduce them to a style with some consistency since their bibliography, brief as it may be, will be part of their grade. 

 

I’m passing on what all of you have sent me so she can go from there.  But the MLA recommendation is so helpful as is the reference to Purdue for further information.

 

Thanks again—

Linda

 

Linda Comerford
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From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Cynthia Baird
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 10:17 PM
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Subject: Re: Citing Sources

 

I have always tried to teach the concept of citation to students, but have always used MLA because it's easiest and the most likely style that beginning college students will encounter.  I am a big fan of Writer's Inc. for College.  Since I teach 9-12, I begin with a simple bibliography with 2 or 3 sources (or more simply using quotes of text and page/line numbers in written responses) and eventually culminate in a full research paper with seniors with a Works Cited page and parenthetical citations.  I think the concept of citing one's sources or text to support one's response is more important than the style one chooses.  I also believe that the whole idea of citing one's sources is rather abstract and may be a bit above middle school students. 

 

Good luck!

--- On Thu, 10/30/08, Linda Comerford <[log in to unmask]NET> wrote:

From: Linda Comerford <[log in to unmask]NET>
Subject: Citing Sources
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 1:48 PM

Hello,

 

Would any of you who teach at either the middle school or high school level have a recommendation for a style guide to cite sources in a research paper?  My niece teaches middle school language arts and asked my help, but I havenąt worked with anything academic in ages.  I promised her Iąd ask you for your suggestions.

 

If this is something better discussed off-list, please send your favorite ways for your students to cite sources to me directly.

 

Thank you.

 

Linda Comerford
317.786.6404
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www.comerfordconsulting.com

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