Citing Text Evidence

You have covered a lot of material in this module about citing text evidence The purpose of todays assignment is to allow you to show what you know about formatting for citing text evidence in a creative and fun way Create a class poster to teach others how to cite evidence Citing Sources Within Your Writing 1 Start by putting quotes around the authors words 2 Put the authors last name and the page number inside parenthesis Lowry 54 3 Move the end punctuation to the end of the sentence outside the parentheses Lowry 54 Examples That made Mike Jordan into Michael Jordan Lovitt 68 Depression is a side effect of dying Cancer is also a side effect of dying Almost everything is really Green 3 Not only are we in the districts forced to remember the iron grip of the Capitols power each year but we are also forced to celebrate it Collins 4 Why do we include intext citations These citations show readers where the information has come from when they view your Works Cited page What if you dont know the authors name Use the title of the text instead Put titles of books in italics and titles of articles in quotation marks You may shorten a long title but make sure it connects to the bibliography Example Jim Crow laws extended into almost every facet of public life Critical Essays on Racial Relations 1 Full Title Critical Essays on Racial Relations in the Southern United States What if the source has two or more authors Example for 23 authors Jim Crow laws extended into almost every facet of public life Smith Brown and Williams 1 Example of 4 or more authors Jim Crow laws extended into almost every facet of public life Smith et al 1 Citing Dialogue 1 Replace any quotation marks INSIDE of your quote with the apostrophe mark 2 Then add your quotation marks around the entire piece of text you cited Example Its almost ten she said Sleep fights cancer I said I was up late reading Green 38 Citing Poetry 1 Copy the lines of poetry into your paragraph as if they flow together like a sentence 2 Place a slashmark between each line of poetry 3 Add your intext citation Shakespeare 13 The numbers represent the lines of poetry rather than the page numbers Example William Shakespeare speaks of true love in his sonnet titled Sonnet 18 He states that as his love interest grows old every fair from fair sometimes declines By change or natures changing course untrimmed But they eternal summer shall not fade 79 Note that the punctuation stays the same as it does in the poem The citation should have included the authors name because it was mentioned in the sentence prior