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Scott Tsuchitani: Hello, students! Hope your week is going well.
To help you succeed on the discussion board, I wanted to provide
some support through the short video on why and how to cite your
sources.
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Scott Tsuchitani: So I'm gonna go ahead and share my screen.
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Scott Tsuchitani: So, why and how to cite your sources using MLA
in-text citation style.
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Scott Tsuchitani: So, instead of just telling you that you need
to do it, let's start with explaining why it's important.
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Scott Tsuchitani: So, in a college course like this, we're moving
away from generalized opinion, to actual scholarship.
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Scott Tsuchitani: So, moving away from common sense.
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Scott Tsuchitani: Which tends to be generalized, unframed by
recognized concepts, Unsupported by reliable evidence?
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Scott Tsuchitani: So, typically, it's what we call hand waving.
You just kind of say things that are commonly understood, but
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Scott Tsuchitani: It lacks, kind of, persuasive weight and
credibility, because it's not grounded in, recognized concepts,
it's not supported by legitimate evidence from reliable sources.
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Scott Tsuchitani: So, everyone in this class is becoming a
scholar as college students, And scholarship requires fact-based
analysis.
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Scott Tsuchitani: So, analysis framed by key concepts, Right?
Such as imperialism.
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Scott Tsuchitani: capitalism, and so on. Supported by evidence.
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Scott Tsuchitani: Evidence that we can draw from the course
materials.
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Scott Tsuchitani: And that evidence Gets its credibility or
reliability from the sources.
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Scott Tsuchitani: by citing those sources, in this course using
MLA citation format.
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Scott Tsuchitani: So that's what gives it credible, persuasive
weight.
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Scott Tsuchitani: And so, by doing reliable scholarship.
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Scott Tsuchitani: It's one way of changing the world, because
we're in-text citations are specific to reference information by
sentence.
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Scott Tsuchitani: So not just at the end of the paragraph.
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Scott Tsuchitani: So, for example, in discussion board, you don't
write a whole paragraph and then just put a reference at the
bottom. We want to distinguish between
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Scott Tsuchitani: What you're citing
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Scott Tsuchitani: In-text citation, by sentence to the source.
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Scott Tsuchitani: And again, these are author, last name, and
page number. Then this one here, there's just a page number,
because it's referencing
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Scott Tsuchitani: The same source that was referenced previously,
so you can drop the name.
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Scott Tsuchitani: Now, this is for a source that has page
numbers, right? But naturalization laws, and then the student
cites
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Scott Tsuchitani: Fisher and Hodges 5.4. So, Fisher and Hodges
being the authors of that chapter of the textbook.
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Scott Tsuchitani: And 5.4 being the specific section they're
referencing regarding yellow peril and immigration and
naturalization laws.
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Scott Tsuchitani: And then they go on to cite model minority
myth.
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Scott Tsuchitani: proving the validity of American racial
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Scott Tsuchitani: Equality and meritocracy. So, there they cite
5.2. So, they don't need to repeat the authors' names, because
it's the same chapter, same authors, but different section.
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Scott Tsuchitani: So again, you cite the chapter authors, not the
textbook authors or editors.
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Scott Tsuchitani: And cite the chapter section number, since the
OER textbook lacks page numbers.
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Scott Tsuchitani: And for an assignment like the discussion
forum, you don't need a works cited, especially with our OER
textbook, because we all know what the source is.
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Scott Tsuchitani: So there's a simplified way to cite the
textbook,
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Scott Tsuchitani: Chapter author's last name, section number.
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Scott Tsuchitani: Now, if you're citing a video source, since we
use videos and or the title of the video, there's no need to
include them in the bracketed citation, since you've already
provided that information in your text.
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Scott Tsuchitani: And again, the purpose of the citation? To
provide concrete evidence.
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Scott Tsuchitani: And give credibility to your analysis.
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Scott Tsuchitani: And the one more thing I'll say about this is
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Scott Tsuchitani: The use of in-text MLA citations in this course
is to demonstrate your engagement with the materials, as well as
provide
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Scott Tsuchitani: Credibility and rigor to your analysis.
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Scott Tsuchitani: So that's the end of this video. Hope it's
helpful. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach
out.
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Scott Tsuchitani: Thank you.
