Help with Citations

Hi, Folks!

PLEASE don't let this citation stuff scare you! Just put the websites into your paper and indicate where you got each piece of information by highlighting it or adding the website in the margins, and I can help you after the deadline to make the citations look "proper." As long as you take the information you find and either keep it in quotation marks or put it in your own words and tell me where you got the info, you'll be all good! :-)

• Here is the MMS Library webpage on Citation help: https://sites.google.com/masdstudent.org/mmslibrary/research/citations?authuser=0

Yes, you need to say where you got your evidence/information for your essay from. For example, if you were writing about the amazing accomplishments of a current doctor named Dr. Oni Blackstock (she's AMAAAAAZING!), and you wanted to use this quote from this website:

• "After traveling to Ghana to work on HIV research, she returned to the U.S. to work on HIV related issues."

You could paraphrase it (put it in your own words) and put the citation at the end (the Smith part, since the webpage was written by Desiree Smith) and also in a Works Cited List at the very end of your 500-word essay:

Example (my wording/paraphrase of the above quote): Dr. Blackstock decided to work on medical issues concerning HIV based on her travel and research experience in Ghana (Smith).

Works Cited

Smith, Desiree. "Dr. Oni Blackstock, Health Equity Champion." National Coalition of STD Directors, https://www.ncsddc.org/black-history-month-blog-dr-oni-blackstock-health-equity-champion/. 5 March 2020. Accessed 5 December 2021.

I'm happy to explain this more if you need it! You can do this! :-)

~Mrs. B