Works Consultedaka Works Cited, or Bibliography

What is a Works Consulted?

A works consulted is an alphabetical listing of all of the sources (print and digital) used to prepare a report or project.

Why prepare a Works Consulted?

To offer additional information; so information can be verified

To complete an assignment To acknowledge and give credit to

others’ ideas To avoid plagiarism

What is plagiarism?

Using and taking credit for another person’s ideas, writings, or other creations, known as their intellectual property

Common Core CC.6.W.9

Research to Build and Present KnowledgeGather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources Assess the credibility of each source Quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and providing basic bibliographic information for the sources

PA Academic Standard 1.8.6.C.

Organization and Production of Final Product:

Presents and connects findings to support purposeDraw reasonable conclusionsGives proper credit to sources

American Association of School Librarians AASL 3.1.6 Use information and technology

ethically and responsibly

What is copyright?What is the copyright date? Copyright is:

The legal protection of a person’s intellectual property the right to “produce, publish, or sell a books, song etc, such that others must obtain permission to copy or perform the material”*

Copyright date is: The date a book, magazine, encyclopedia, CD-

Rom, Internet site, film, etc., receives copyright protection

*Scholastic Children’s Dictionary, 1996

A works consulted is made up of bibliographic citations for each source

What information is included in a bibliographic citation*? Who:

The author’s name

What: The title of the source

Where: Publishing information

When: Copyright date

Type: Medium of publication

*The listing of one source within the Works Consulted document is called a bibliographic citation, an entry, or simply, a source

What is “medium of publication”? Print

hard copy book or magazine Web

digital Internet publications

For a list of publication mediums, go to: http://www.luzzo.com/list-of-mla-medium-of-publication-typ

es/

What does a bibliographic citation look like?

Information listed in a prescribed order Required punctuation Necessary capital letters Double spacing “Hanging indention”

Paul, Miranda. One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the

Recyclinig Women of the Gambia. Minneapolis:

Millbrook, 2015. Print. note: Millbrook Press is listed as Millbrook (words such as books, library, publishers, house, and

incorporated are omitted from the publishing company name in a bibliographic citation)

Where can bibliographic information for a book be found?

The TITLE PAGE usually includes:

Author (who) Title (what) Publisher (where) City of publication (where)

Title Page

Where is the rest of the bibliographic information?

If the information is NOT on the title page, check the VERSO for:

The city of publication The publisher The copyright date ©

REMEMBER to check the title page first!!

Verso

Bibliography Notes

Author Suzanne Tripp Jurmain

Title Worst of Friends

City of Publication New York

Publisher Dutton

Copyright Date 2011

Medium of Publication Print

It’s Your Turn!

Last name, First name Middle Name. Title. City:

Publisher, date. Print.

Jurmain, Suzanne Tripp. Worst of Friends.

New York: Dutton, 2011. Print.

The Works Consulted Song

Last name, comma,First name, period.Title of the book,Underlined then period.Place of publication:Colon and the publisherComma, date, period.Type of media, period.

What does a Works Consulted for books look like?

Evdokimoff, Natasha. Pennsylvania. Mankato:

Weigl, 2001. Print.

Ingram, Scott. Pennsylvania the Keystone

State. Milwaukee: World Almanac, 2002. Print.

McAuliffe, Emily. Pennsylvania Facts and Symbols.

New York: Hilltop, 1999. Print.

Can you find the mistakes?Evdokimoff, Natasha. Pennsylvania. Mankato:

Weigl Publishers, 2001

McAuliffe, Emily. Pennsylvania Facts andSymbols. New York : Hilltop Books, 1999!

Ingram, Scott. Pennsylvania the Keystone

State. Milwaukee, WI: World Almanac

Library, 2002. Print

Print Reference Book Articles When citing an article in a reference book

(such as an encyclopedia), follow the format below:

“Title of article.” Title of the encyclopedia. Copyright date. Print.

“Middle Ages.” The New Book of Knowledge. 2007.

Print.

Sirs DiscovererReference Book Article

Author’s name. “Title of article.” Title of the Book.

Edition (if known). Year. Title of the Database. Web.

Date of access (day month year).

Harris, Laurie Lanzen. “John Adams.” Biography for

Beginners – Presidents. 2002. Sirs Discoverer. Web.

4 November 2009.