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Tutorial: "Writing a Citation" Home Page

Writing a Proper Citation

Overview

When you use someone else's thoughts, words, or ideas in your paper, you must write a proper bibliographic citation. This tutorial is designed to introduce you to the parts of a citation and to show you the basic formats. It will also link you to the Landmark's Citation Machine.

Objectives

At the conclusion of this tutorial, you will:

    blue bullet used to denote item in a listbe able to identify the basic elements of a proper citation: author, title, publisher, publication date, and date of access (for Internet sites).

    blue bullet used to denote item in a listbe able to write a basic citation using models provided in the tutorial.

    blue bullet used to denote item in a listbe able to access the Landmark Project's Citation Machine which can be used to check your citations.

    blue bullet used to denote item in a listknow where to find online resources available through Writing Fellows Online that will help you with other aspects of writing research papers.

Content

There are five sections in the tutorial


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