Welcome back from Spring Break!
Before we left for spring
break, I was talking with a student about homework, and checking here
for the assignments, and she said the homework listing was difficult to
understand. I've been wondering if this was the case, but have not
heard if it is easy or difficult for other students. In hopes of
making it easier, for the next few weeks, we will try something like
Mrs. Butler's calendar for listing homework. Green assignments
represent 7th grade work, purple represents 6th grade assignments.
Click here to link to the trial method of posting homework
assignments!
Thank you!
Mrs. Fischer
Note about 6th grade project... how to list Holt workbook in resource list/bibliography
I would consider the Holt Workbook to be a book, or a chapter of a book. Looking at the book, I see no author, nor copyright date listed (very odd). You have two options for the resource list, (1) Putting the title first, and putting it into your alphabetical list of sources using the title only; (2) calling the author "---" which represents that the author of the work is unknown. The samples below go the with the unknown option. The entry would look similar to this, including the hanging indent. [notes: 1. it is possible that the hanging indent does not show up correctly on this page due to different sizes of computer monitors; 2. the "n.d."stands for no date, because the Holt workbook does not list it's copy right date.]
option 1:
"Chapter's Title." Holt California Earth Science Interactive Reader and Study Guide. Orlando: Holt, Rinehart and
Winston, n.d. page start--page end.
option 2:
---. "Chapter's Title." Holt California Earth Science Interactive Reader and Study Guide. Orlando: Holt, Rinehart and
Winston, n.d. page start--page end.
However where it says "Chapter's Title" you will enter the title of the chapter or section in which you found the information. Then, where it says page start -- page end, you would type the pages that you got the information from. Let's imagine that you used chapter 17, Biomes and Ecosystems, the section on Land Biomes. It begins on p. 310-317. Imagine that you also looked at page 307 for the definition of biome, which is being quoted in your work. Here is a sample of what your bibliography would look like.
option 1:
"Biomes and Ecosystems." Holt California Earth Science Interactive Reader and Study Guide. Orlando: Holt, Rinehart
and Winston, n.d. 307, 310-317.
option 2:
---. "Biomes and Ecosystems." Holt California Earth Science Interactive Reader and Study Guide. Orlando: Holt, Rinehart
and Winston, n.d. 307, 310-317.
For more samples, you could look at, http://www.aresearchguide.com/11guide.html#date which looks like it is very comprehensive and would be extremely useful, although I have not come across it before so I am somewhat hesitant in suggesting it. If it gives you the option to download anything, close the window immediately. I have used the next to sites before and they are from more reputable sources http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/07/ and http://www.library.cornell.edu/newhelp/res_strategy/citing/mla.html and of course, there is the Google search option. In third period we talked about parenthetical citations. You can find more details on how they work by using the three sites.
One last reminder, be sure to put each item for your bibliography in alphabetical order by last name. If there is no name given, consider where "unknown" fits in alphabetically with the other author's last names, or just have the title be the first thing listed in the bibliography.