While you were doing your research, you took good notes & you recorded all of your sources in your bibliography and on your note cards... hopefully! NOW, when you are doing your narrative portion of your MGP-- the "official & traditional" portion of your research project, you will be so happy that you did all of that work. When you are sitting down to draft the narrative of the most significant portions of the person's life (you know, that one you researched) and you are trying to show how he or she BECAME that significant person that cosmically and amazingly affected the world like no other before or after him or her, you need to give credit to the sources from which you found the information. So, when you share something you did not know, you need to cite it in the text (right after the information you shared) by simply including the author's name and the page number on which you found that awesome information. If you found it on a website, the rules are different. Use the good old
Purdue Owl site to help you... Also-- here is specific information for citing a
video you found online (perhaps like at Youtube.)
We will do some practice in class, but you need be sure to cite EVERYTHING you did NOT know...
About.com also has some information on citations on their "homework" help site.
If you want to download an entire PDF file to help you, use
this site.
My Sample Narrative
Look at it for two examples of citations--
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