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Overview
Students learn how to write bibliographic citations for online sources
following the style recommended by the Modern Language Association.
Objectives
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Interpret bibliography citations for professional sites, online newspaper and magazine articles, online reference databases,
and home pages |
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Recall that citations should be recorded as each site is used |
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Materials
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Activity sheets (2) |
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Online computer access |
Introduce (offline)
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Tell students that, if they choose sources carefully, cyberspace can be a great place to collect the information they
need to write a report. |
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Have them relate some online sources of information that they may have used to write reports. |
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Discuss and define "bibliography." (a list describing the sources used for a report) Point out that a bibliography should
include all sources from which students took information - online as well as offline. |
Teach
1 (offline)
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Distribute the activity sheets. |
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Explain that the angle brackets < and >, used before and after the URL, are on the comma and period keys of their
keyboards. |
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Tell students they should provide two dates for each source: the date the source was last updated or "published" and the
date the student used the site for research. |
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Ask: What generalizations can you make about punctuating the elements of any online
citation? (use periods after most elements in the citation; cite two different dates; use angle brackets around the
URL) |
Teach 2 (online)
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Take students to www.becybersmart.org and click on the diamond. Find the title of this lesson, and open its links. |
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Assign each student or group of students one Web page. |
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Using the examples on the activity sheets as a guide, have them determine which type of site it is and then write a bibliographic
citation. |
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Have students compare citations to make sure they are complete and accurate. |
Close
(offline)
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Ask: What kinds of information should be included in a bibliography of online sources?
(author, name of site, name of sponsor, date updated or published, dates used by student, and the site's URL in brackets) |
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Ask: Why is it better to record your citations as you do research, rather than waiting
until the report is finished? (If you wait, then you may forget what sites you visited, when you visited them, and
what page in the site you used.) |
Extend (online)
The following activity can
be added for students who completed this lesson in a previous grade.
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Have students collaborate to create a bibliography on a theme of their choice. They should search for useful Web sites,
then organize their citations into a single bibliography to distribute throughout the school. | |
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