Source+Citation+Guide

=Source Citation Guide= This section is your reference for the expectations of source citation as you add content to our Wiki. Please check it when in doubt and if you still have questions, come to speak with me.

__Please note__: Text taken directly from a website, article or book needs to be indicated with quotation marks " ". It is __not__ our intention to assemble an entire wiki full of quotations. Use your own words and language to describe what you have read in a source and then use a citation to indicate where the information was sourced from. Use of some direct quotations will be appropriate, but we cannot entirely use them, else we're acting as parrots and not learners.

Why Cite our Sources?
We have a variety of good reasons for the use of source citations in our work:
 * 1) University and College programs expect it of students, therefore we will help you to be prepared for those expectations in advance.
 * 2) Academic Integrity - We are learning from the writing and ideas of others. It is only honest to give those sources credit.
 * 3) Variety of Perspectives - By citing our sources we can help to assemble a broader understanding not limited to one author or belief.
 * 4) Depth of Knowledge - The citations and links we provide can help others (and ourselves) refer back to further information at a later date.

Citation Format
We will be using "**MLA**" Style citation format. You can find information about this format on page 82 of your school agenda. It provides a useful and fairly comprehensive set of rules for how to prepare a citation.

A further online guide can be found here: []

Absurd Citation Example...
North Fuhr-haven is a fictional nation in the land of Narnia.(4)

Mr. Fuhr is a nation state. Or not.(1) IN fact, "Fuhr" is a reference to a small Scandinavian village conquered by Hehr Hitler during the Second World War. This is not properly a nations state, although Hitler did attempt to declare it as such. The Soviet Union disagreed and bombed him. (2) In 2005, the city of Georgia, West-Fuhr province celebrated the 60th Anniversery of the Soviet "liberation." (3)

‍Sources:

 * 1) Sens, Allen and Stoett, Peter. __Global Politics: Origins, Currents, Directions__, Second Edition. Nelson Thomson Learning. 2002. Pg 10365.
 * 2) Sens, Allen and Stoett, Peter. __Global Politics: Origins, Currents, Directions__, Second Edition. Nelson Thomson Learning. 2002. Pg 1234, 627..
 * 3) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. [|www.cbc.ca/info/fakehistory.index]. Retrieved on Monday, September 12, 2059.
 * 4) Lewis, CS. __The Chronicles of Narnia__. Fictional Edition. Lionsgate Publishing. 1939. Pg 15-16.

A word on Wikipedia as a source...
No.

__Let me explain__: The purpose of citation is among other things, to give credit to the author(s) of information we are using. Since Wikipedia is an amalgamation of authors open to anyone in the world, it does not provide authorial recognition to its contributors. Without such recognition, the limitations of a source cannot be as accurately evaluated. Therefore on those two counts our reasons for citation are made moot if we access Wikipedia as a source, which is why I say again "NO." Wikipedia is not an acceptable source of information for our current work.

My appologies for not emphasizing this during our first class. This point will be made clearly during our next meeting. From next Monday, or the time when you read this page, whichever comes first, Wikipedia will not be considered an acceptable source for our project.