Regardless of whether you are directly quoting word-for-word or paraphrasing what someone wrote or said, you need to give them credit and cite your sources.

As you collect information, copy the urls from the webpages you get information from into the footer of your website. Scroll to the bottom of you website and click "Add Footer"

Citing your Sources inside your paragraph

Within your paragraphs you will cite your sources in parenthesis after the information.

For this class we will be using the MLA method.

In MLA, you put the last name of the author and page number inside parenthesis after a quote or paraphrased idea. For example:

Abraham Lincoln began the "Gettysburg Address" with the famous words "four score and seven years ago..." (Lincoln, 103). Instead of saying "87 years" Lincoln wanted to use a more formal language to stress the seriousness of the event (Mitchell 2:33).

Lincoln is the author and 103 is the page number.

Mitchell is a person quoted in a youtube video and 2:33 is the time that the quote starts in the video.

At the end of your writing you need to include a "Works Cited" which is a detailed list of the sources you used. On a web page this should be in the footer.

Website article:

The most basic entry for an MLA website citation consists of the author name(s), page title, website title, sponsoring institution/publisher, date published, and the URL. Format: Author's Last name, First name. "Title of Individual Web Page."

Song Lyrics:

If you cite lyrics from a Web site, provide a description in place of the title. Then provide the name of the Web site, publication information for the site, and the URL:

Beatles. Lyrics to “Revolution 1.” Genius, 2017, genius.com/The-beatles-revolution-i-lyrics.

Videos:

The general format for citing online videos in MLA style is as follows:

"Title of video." YouTube, uploaded by Screen Name, day month year, www.youtube.com/xxxxx.

If the author of the video is not the same as the person who uploaded the video, your citation would be formatted as follows:

Author last name, First Name. "Title of video." YouTube, uploaded by Screen Name, day month year, www.youtube.com/xxxxx.

Example of citation with different author and uploader:

Beyoncé . "Sorry." YouTube, uploaded by BeyFan123, 17 December 2016, www.youtube.com/xxxx.

Example of citation with no known author or same author and uploader:

"Day in the Life." YouTube, uploaded by janedoe, 19 December 2016, www.youtube.com/xxxx.

Your in-text citation will depend on whether you have the author's last name. Basically, you will want to cite in-text whatever appears first in the citation on your Works Cited page. If you are referencing a specific part of the video, MLA format also requires that you specify the time in the video when that part begins.

In-text citation with author:

(Last name, 00:01:15 - 00:02:00).

In-text citation with no author or same author and uploader:

("Title of video," 00:01:15 - 00:02:00).

Works Cited

Lincoln, Abraham. "Address delivered at the Dedication of Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1983." In Great Speeches. New York: Dover Publications, 1991. page 103.

Mitchell, Larry. "Abraham Lincoln's Most Famous Speech." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rulm88TmUmQ. Accessed June 23rd, 2019.

There are lots of different sources like magazines, blogs, audio, etc. For a list of ways to cite them click here.