Citing Sources for SAGE

Citing Your Sources

•When referring to evidence and information from passages, students should use paraphrasing and short quotations. To credit sources, students should use informal, in-text citations (e.g., MLA author or title tags).

Informal Citation

Citing Your Sources

Ex: The text “In Praise of Careful Science” says “Most of the time, scientists work for decades and make very few mistakes.”

Or, you can use a tag at the end of the sentence:

Ex: Romantic poetry is described as the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth). Author Tag

Citing Your Sources

Ex: The Scottish had different patterns that

showed what clan a person was in (McClellen and

Bree).Author Tag

Citing Your Sources

If you don’t know the author, use all or part of the title.

Ex:"Standardized tests could effectively measure student understanding"

(American Testing).

Title Tag

Use all the sources

YOU ARE GIVEN.

Use and Cite the sources for your Essay

Important hints

Follow Directions

Set sound and color carefully

•Once you begin testing, you will not be able to change them.

Take the time you need

But don’t waste your time.

Use RAFTS

•Role

•Audience

•Format

•Task

•Strong Key Words

Use Argument essay format

Bring these items to the lab

Today we will be in

Lab 201