citing sources

Assignment #2 – Citing Sources

Citing your sources is an important element to building your credibility as a writer and communicator.

Not only are you able to show support for your ideas by using verifiable sources, by citing works you also

protect yourself from accusations of plagiarism.

I strongly advise that you DO NOT use online citation generators to complete the works cited pages in

papers you write (or for this assignment). The Modern Language Association produces style guides; a

common one used in business school is the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. If you find

yourself wishing for an online resource, try the Purdue Online Writing Lab, known as the Purdue OWL.

For this assignment, please find below a listing of 10 different source materials. For each, provide both

the appropriate in-text citation—the way you would cite the work in the body of a paper—and a citation

for a Works Cited page listing in a research paper. You may need to do a bit more research to obtain the

detailed elements needed for each source citation.

This assignment is to be typed. You may simply list the correct answer. You should be clear which is the

in-text version is and which one belongs in the Works Cited listing at the end of the paper.

Your assignment will be graded as follows:

1 point for each correct in-text citation

1 points for each correct Works Cited page listing

No partial points will be provided, this is an all-or-nothing exercise where attention to detail is critical.

Source Materials

1) The quote “Our technology has developed to the point that people need new skills and

capabilities in order to use it to the greatest advantage,” from page 101 of Tracy Brower’s 2014

book Bring Work to Life by Bringing Life to Work published by Bibliomotion, Inc. out of

Brookline, MA.

2) Comments from a personal interview you conducted with Susan Smith, shift manager of the

Coffee Connection, on December 18, 2014.

3) Information you received via email (subject line RE: Questions about Bank of America mortgage

policies) from Vice President of Mortgage Assets, Steven Troutner, on March 8, 2013.

4) Information about how to create stronger transitions in a speech from a page on the website

Quickanddirtytips.com (http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/business-career/public-

speaking/how-to-create-stronger-transitions-in-a-speech) that you accessed on January 5, 2015.

5) Information from the movie “The Big Lebowski”

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6) A printed pamphlet you picked up at the doctor’s office titled “Back Health: 10 exercises to

strengthen your back and core muscles” produced by the Kaiser Permanente Spinal Surgeons

group in 2011.

7) A passage on page 154 from the 2005 book Why Business People Speak Like Idiots by Brian

Fugere, Chelsea Hardaway and Jon Warshawsky printed by Free Press, a division of Simon &

Schuster, Inc. in New York

8) Information from an article in the Saturday/Sunday, January 17-18, 2015 Wall Street Journal

weekend edition on page A1 titled “High Court to Decide Same-Sex Marriage” by Jess Bravin.

9) The keynote address by Rachel Carson at the National Aviation Environmental Management

Conference at the Hilton Hotel City Center in Albequerque, New Mexico on January 17, 2014.

10) An article titled “Secrets for dining abroad with gusto” without an author listed on page 17 of

the print edition of the July/August 2014 issue of Via magazine.