CSCI 497 - Senior Seminar
Fall 2014
Citations
- This presentation is adapted from:
- Referential citation
- Draws attention to a contribution
- Critical citation
- Refers to research to draw attention to its flaws
- Functions of citations
- Verification
- Acknowledgement
- Documentation
- Good citation practice:
- If you repeat a claim from another source, supply a citation.
- A fact that is general knowledge in the discipline does not need a citation.
- All cited documents should actually be read and checked for accuracy.
- If there are conflicting views on an issue, this should be reflected
in the citations.
- Bad citation practice:
- Selectively citing oneself or one's friends
- Selectively citing sources that support only the author's viewpoint
- Citing inaccessible work
- Citing work that has not been read
- Misrepresenting the contents of cited work
- Overusing citations to increase apparent erudition
- Citing work that has not been peer-reviewed