From Source to Speech: Recording and Citing Web Sources

Recording and Citing Web Sources

When using a Web document as a source, locate and record the following citation elements:

  1. Author of the Work
  2. Title of the Work
  3. Title of the Website
  4. Date of Publication/Last Update
  5. Site Address (URL)
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Record Note

When taking notes, create a separate heading for each idea and record the citation elements from your source. Indicate whether the material is a direct quotation, a paraphrase, or a summary of the information.

Following are sample notes for a quotation and a paraphrase.

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Orally Cite Sources in Your Speech

In your speech, alert the audience to the source of any ideas not your own. You can find more information on oral citations earlier in this chapter. For guidelines on various citation styles including Chicago, APA, MLA, CBE/CSE, and IEEE, see Appendices B and C, as well as online Appendices GI.

SPEECH EXCERPT INDICATING A DIRECT QUOTATION

Many famous thinkers have grappled with the concept of time. For example, Saint Augustine wrote in his biography, Confessions, “What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobody asks me; but if I am asked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.”

SPEECH EXCERPT INDICATING A PARAPHRASE

In an article on the nature of time posted on the website Nobelprize.org, professor of comparative literature Anders Cullhed notes that beginning with thinkers in ancient Greece, Western philosophers and writers have tried to understand the nature of time.