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Unfamiliar Genre Project: Citation General Resources

Built for Dr. Jones-Pierce's "Unfamiliar Genres" assignment for ENG 313 (Advanced Rhetoric), this guide will help you navigate useful sources for exploring the idea of genre, specific genres, examples of genres to read in full, as well as research materia

Basics

A lot of the heavy lifting of citations is just good intellectual hygiene, because it has to do with giving credit where its due and helping others find things, too.

It shows which ideas you're choosing to interact with, and whose the are, and, ultimately, a researcher could go back and read the influences within the sources you used, and on and on.

The basics are usually pretty much the same, across formats. You should always be noting:

Author or Creator (Who made this?)

Title or name OF ARTICLE or CHAPTER etc. (What is this?)

Title or name of CONTAINER, like a JOURNAL NAME or WEBSITE etc. (How was this published/distributed?)

PAGE numbers of SPECIFIC IDEAS 

LOCATION of source  (DOI/URL)

Citation Tools at Magale

More resources

Citation resources elsewhere