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Agenda:

• Medieval Notes check• Review wiki assignment and rubric• Finish setting up/exploring wiki• Presentation– Design principles – Reliability– Citation and Attribution

• “Disastrous 14th Century”—short video and work in pairs

How to get on Wiki Spaces

• Go to brooksbritlit2015.wikispaces.com.• Create an account.– Create a user name that has your last name in

it.– Use a sticky note to keep track of your login

credentials!

• DO NOT create you own wiki. Say “no” to that if prompted.

• Choose the option to join if prompted.• Join code: CRHXPNQ

Design Principles

• What do we “like” in a website we are using for information?– Title– Organization & Navigation– Images & Objects– Font & Color

Reliability (Objective Standards)

• Domains– .coms are generally the least reliable

sources of information.– .edu and .gov are generally the most

reliable.– .org has pretty good reliability, but be

on the lookout for bias.– .net has medium reliability; the reader

doesn’t always know the writers’ level of expertise/ authority.

Reliability

• Timeliness• Try not to use internet content that

is older than five years unless other standards of reliability are very, very high.

Reliability

• Citable elements• Generally, articles that contain more

citable information (like author’s name, posting dates, and works cited) are more reliable than those that contain less such information.

• Usually, if I cannot write a citation with 5 of the 6 elements, as required by MLA, I will not use the source.

Reliability

• Advertising density• I tend to read internet content with

a lot of ads as less reliable than content with fewer ads.

• More ads might mean that the organization producing the information does not have as well established and/or stable sources of funding as do organizations with fewer.

Citing Sources: Definitions

• Source:• An article or other reading a person

has used for information and included in a paper

Definitions

• Cite: • The act of giving explicit credit to

the person or organization that wrote a source used for information

Definitions

• Citation: • A reference, either in-text or on the

works cited page, to the person or organization that wrote the source used for information

Definitions

• Attribution:• The use of wording that signals to

your reader that you are about to quote or use information from a source.

Definitions

• Plagiarism: • The act of conveying the impression,

either intentionally or unintentionally, that you have written or thought something that you borrowed from someone else.

Avoiding Plagiarism: Rule of Thumb

• “Readers must be able to tell as they are reading your paper exactly what information came from which source and what information is your contribution to the paper” (Hult).

• Hult, Christina A. Researching and Writing Across the Curriculum. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1996.

Correct Attribution

• “According to” and “says” are the best attribution tags:

• Example: According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, monasticism evolved into “retreat into a community of likeminded ascetics” (Metropolitan Museum).

Works Cited Page

• Your works cited page should contain a full citation of each source you have used in the wiki.

• Purdue OWL is the best source for finding out how to cite sources correctly.

• Here is the correct format for citing the articles we used for this essay:

• Author. “Article Name”. Title of Website. Date of Post. Web. Date of access.

• Entries on your works cited page must be alphabetized according to the first item in the entry (which isn’t always going to be the author’s last name).

In-Text Citations

• An in-text citation is a quick reference to the source of information.

• In-text citations should be placed at the end of the sentence where the borrowed material appears—not in the middle of a sentence.

• In text citations are also placed outside of quotations marks.

• The word or words in the in-text citation should correspond to the first word or words in the entry on the works cited page.

In-Text Citations

• In-text citations should correspond to the first word in the entry on the works cited page:

• Example: According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, monasticism involves “retreat into a community of likeminded ascetics” (Metropolitan Museum).

• Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Monasticism in Western Medieval Europe.” Metmuseum.org. 2015. Web. 15 Oct. 2015.

Example:

Many medieval monks were scribes. According to the Oxford Learners’ Dictionary online, a scribe was “a person who made copies of written documents before printing was invented” (“Scribe”).