Scholarly Etiquette and The Anatomy of a Citation

Scholarly Etiquette

• What is it?

• What does it mean for this class?

• There are several levels of scholarly etiquette we are concerned with in this course:– Daily Interactions– Writing Style– Papers and Projects

Scholarly Etiquette: Daily Interactions

• Common courtesy in class discussions and blog postings

• Respect your classmates and group members– allow them to speak without interruption– respond to each others comments fairly, even when

you disagree

• Make sure that all group members are having input in group discussions and decisions.

Scholarly Etiquette: Writing Style

• Informal technologies, formal writing style– When using the blogs and Google docs, remember

that you are being graded on your grammar and style even though these are informal communication technologies.

– Use spell check and always re-read your assignments before they are due-those squiggly green and red lines mean something!

– Writing style doesn’t have to be overly elaborate, but don’t drop into slang, especially when writing in emails (and especially to other professors).

Scholarly Etiquette: Papers and Projects

• Research and writing– locating and reading various pieces of information

written by others and then creating a work of your own.

• Citations and Bibliographies– show the research you have done– give credit to those who did the work – list where future researchers can find that information

• By showing where you located your information and on what you base your conclusions, your own work carries more significance to your reader.

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Just imagine…..

• You need to locate info on an item written by Gauntlett and you have a bibliography that looks like THIS

How about this one?

Style Guides

• Provide standards for formatting papers (fonts, title pages, etc.)

• Provide standards for in-text citations, endnotes, footnotes, etc.

• Provide standards for the final works cited list. • Several popular ones:

– MLA: Humanities– APA: Social Sciences– Chicago: Various– Scientific

Basics of MLA Style Formatting

• Spacing • Indents • Author’s Name• Capitalization • Underlining • Subtitles• Place of publication • Electronic versions

Samples: Reference Article

Smith, John. “Ulysses S. Grant.”

Encyclopedia of the Civil War. Ed. Tom

Jones. 5 vols. New York: Random House,

2007.

"Grant, Ulysses S." Encyclopædia Britannica.

2007. Encyclopædia Britannica Online.

19 July 2007   <http://search.eb.com/eb/article-9037734>.

Samples - Books

Smith, John. This is My Book. New York:

Random House, 2007.

Jones, Tom. “How I Know John Smith.” Ed.

John Smith. This is My Book. New York:

Random House, 2007. 100-125.

Samples: Journal ArticlesSmith, John. “The Results of my Research.”

Journal of General Science 14 (1): 2007.

100-125.

Smith, John. “The Results of my Research.”

Journal of General Science 14 (1): 2007.

100-125. JSTOR 17 July 2007

<http://jstor.org>

Sample: Web Site

“Children’s Advertising and Gender Roles.”

MediaFamily.org. National Institute on

Media and the Family. 24 April 2007.

<http://www.mediafamily.org/facts/facts_

Children.shtml>.

When trying to locate an item from a bibliography

• First determine what type of source it is– Book– Book chapter– Journal Article– Magazine Article– Newspaper article– Web site

• Then pay close attention to the parts of the citation so you can locate it.

'If This Be Error': How Shall the Poem Be Translated? Five Modern Views of Shakespeare By: Bjorklund, Beth; Language and Style: An International Journal, 1983 Winter; 16 (1): 3-22

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Poetry in Motion: Animating Shakespeare By: Osborne, Laurie E.;. pp. 103-20 IN: Boose, Lynda E. (ed.); Burt, Richard (ed.); Shakespeare, the Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, and Video. London, England: Routledge; 1997. x, 277 pp.

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Mo(u)rning in America: Hamlet, Reagan, and the Rights of Memory By: Raphael, Timothy; Theatre Journal, 2007 Mar; 59 (1): 1-20

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The Year's Work in Service Studies: Shakespeare, 2005 By: Evett, David; Modern Philology: Critical and Historical Studies in Literature, Medieval Through Contemporary, 2007 Feb; 104 (3): 412-29

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