History: Sport in American Society - Mascots (Cobbett, Shen)

DATABASES - overviews and articles

Suggested searches: mascot • team name and specific team • specific team and specific mascot

Examples: mascot • team name and Kansas City Chiefs • FSU and Osceola

SIRS (ProQuest)

Newspaper articles only (no overviews)

CITATION


Citation Basics:

  • Citation means crediting information from a source that you used in your research and writing. To cite, you give identifying information about the source.

  • Citation has 2 aspects; you must do BOTH:

  1. Rewrite ideas from the source (change words and sentence structure) OR provide a direct quotation ("...using quotes").

  2. Give credit to the source. You must do this even if you put the information in your own words.

  • For this project, use MLA 9 citation style with footnotes.

Citation Generators:

To create your MLA 9 Works Cited list, try one of these citation generators:

NOTE: Databases provide completed citations. Just export the citation to NoodleTools or copy/paste the citation into the citation generator.

SOURCE EVALUATION

SOURCE EVALUATION TASKS:

1. In-class activity: Evaluate a website

2. On your own: Complete this Google Form to evaluate two *websites* (do not put any databases on the form)

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FOR FUTURE REFERENCE: Full SCRAP Test