Citations

Citation Nation from Chirstopher Fluetsch CSLA2020

How to identify the source:

1. Student Inquiry - Why and how to identify, Discussion Student Driven
2. Invert the question - What information doesn't help?
3. Minimize the problem
4. Introduce Formal citation

Why Copyright date is important:

Pluto in 2006: one of the 9 planets in the Solar System

Pluto in 2007: a dwarf planet. There are 8 planets in the solar system.

Why the Access date for websites is important:

White House today:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/

White House in 2016: https://web.archive.org/web/20161231225535/https://www.whitehouse.gov/

White House after September 11, 2001

https://web.archive.org/web/20010913035103/http://www.whitehouse.gov:80/

White House in 1996

https://web.archive.org/web/19991008133927/http://www2.whitehouse.gov:80/WH/Welcome.html

Archived by Wayback Machine

Notice that although the website address is the same, the content changes over time.

Smarter Balanced Rubric for score 4 Citations:

There are clear citations or attributions to source materials (e.g., “…according to source #3…”;

“As stated in source #1…”; “Also as Professor Mann asserts in the interview feature in Source # 3…”).

Resources:

The Citation Game