Citing Resources
Citing resources is necessary whenever you use someone else’s ideas or words.
Information from others can come from many places, such as the Internet, computer programs,
books, magazines, newspapers, encyclopedias, academic journals, dictionaries, etc. In order to
use their words or images, you must cite them as the originator of the information. There is a
very specific way to record the information about the originator for each type of source. Each
citation includes major identifiable information listed with specific punctuation. The best way to
keep track of the information you use, record the citation as you research, especially when you
are using text or graphics from the Internet because the information may not be there at a later
date. The most common place to put the citations on your projects is on a bibliography page. If
you are working on a word processing assignment or a slide show presentation, you should
include the bibliography on the last page/slide. A good tip for citing images or text is to “tag”
the text or image with a capital letter, number or symbol that will tie specifically to the citation
on the bibliography page. For example: If you’re doing a slide show and you use an image of a
computer that you got from the Internet, you could add a text box at the corner of the image with
the letter A, then include the citation for that image under “A” on the bibliography page.
Assignment
Complete the following worksheet. The resources for 1-3 are listed below. The others will be
provided in class. The format for each problem is contained in the file: Citing Resources (on the
I: directory). You may highlight the individual structures, copy, and paste them onto this
worksheet under each problem, then fill in the specific information after.
1. The Salt Lake Tribune -- Palm Plans to Merge With Handspring
2. SonyStyle USA
3. Choose an image from the clipart collection from this program (go to the Insert menu,
click on Picture, Clipart, then select an image).
Names
Period
Citing Sources
1. Online text
2. Online Image
3. Clipart from computer program
4. Book
5. Magazine article
6. Dictionary
7. Newspaper Article
Rubric on next page.
Date
Citing Resources WS Rubric
Criteria
Online text (WWW) structure
Online text elements entered
Correct punctuation and capitalization
Online image structure
Online image elements entered
Correct punctuation and capitalization
Online text (WWW) structure
Online text elements entered
Correct punctuation and capitalization
Clipart (computer software) structure
Clipart (computer software) elements entered
Correct punctuation and capitalization
Book structure
Book elements entered
Correct punctuation and capitalization
Magazine structure
Magazine elements entered
Correct punctuation and capitalization
Dictionary structure
Dictionary elements entered
Correct punctuation and capitalization
Newspaper structure
Newspaper elements entered
Correct punctuation and capitalization
TOTAL
Points
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1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
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