English 9 UHS: How to convey findings graphically and Citation!

Hello 9s,

I wanted to commend you on your focus and contributions as we explore the detailed work of creating a research question, begin researching, paraphrasing/summarizing, and citation. We worked on Citation last class and I'll review that work below. The preceding class we explored ways of conveying ideas/findings visually/graphically. I'll post some reinforcement of those ideas below as well.

For homework:

Review this post/gather research.
Begin creating citations and come with your questions
Come with your ideas/questions re: representing your ideas visually
Ask for help if you need it, for refining your research question.

Your Citations are due for English class June 11.

This week, both classes will be work periods.

Thursday, be prepared to speak with some confidence about your research.

When doing research go to:

· Library.vsb.bc.ca (note there is no www.)https://library.vsb.bc.ca/

· Then choose our school

· Next enter your Name and Password that you use for school

· Ms. Love recommends using ‘Gale’ or ‘Global Issues’ sources you’ll see here.

· Then search your key word

If you use information or quote, add it to your works cited word document.

· Do so by clicking on ‘citation tools’ and it should fill in the information you need and it will provide you with a citation

· Cut and paste it into your word document.

Citation tools (on the school research sites) allow you to make it a good bit of the way through,

a. choosing which citation form you will be using (MLA for English/APA for Science) and

b. finding/formatting/punctuating citation information correctly.

If you are searching outside the school research tools you may wish to try formatting citations APA style use: bibme

While these tools are helpful, they are not perfect. There is often information or formatting yet to include. It is our responsibility to:

a. Do our best to include any missing data (names/dates etc.)

b. Alphabetize our citations

c. Title our citation page (Works cited at the top and centred with nothing else on the page)

d. Ensure all text is the same colour and has no coloured background as seen below

e. Double space the citations and then indicate clearly the division between one citation and the next.

f. Produce a hanging indent.

How to break a hyperlink

APA Works Cited Example

Finkbeiner, M., Schau, E. M., Lehmann, A., & Traverso, M. (2010, October 22). Towards Life

Cycle Sustainability Assessment. Retrieved June 1, 2018, from

http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/2/10/3309/htm

James, B. J. (2018). Figure 2f from: Irimia R, Gottschling M (2016) Taxonomic revision of

Rochefortia Sw. (Ehretiaceae, Boraginales). Biodiversity Data Journal 4: E7720.

https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e7720. Great American. doi:10.3897/bdj.4.e7720.figure2f

Jermes, B. J. (2018). Figure 2f from: Irimia R, Gottschling M (2016) Taxonomic revision of

Rochefortia Sw. (Ehretiaceae, Boraginales). Biodiversity Data Journal 4: E7720.

https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e7720. Great American. doi:10.3897/bdj.4.e7720.figure2f

Rubric by which your citations will be marked and a sample below:

Citations Rubric

Format for Citations is as follows:

1. Title of page is Works Cited. Only those works cited/sourced within your paper/presentation are included in the Works Cited list.

2. Citations are in alphabetical order by the first letter of the entry.

3. The entries have a “hanging indent” (where the first line of a citation is at the usual spot on the left margin, but all the following lines in that paragraph are moved in to the next tab stop). Hanging Indent (use ctrl + T to create Hanging Indent.)

Sample of citation with hanging indent:

Freedman, Russell and James Lincoln Collier. Abraham Lincoln: My Life after the

War. Boston: Houghton, 2007.

4.Font and size are consistent throughout the page; blue ink from links is removed.

Criteria	4	3	2	1 or 0
Format of Works Cited Page	All parts of format (above) are followed consistently	One part of format is missing.	More than one element is consistently incorrect	Works Cited page is missing or not done according to any of the correct format.
Elements of citation according to lessons on print and web site citation and with use of EasyBib or other tool.	All parts of the citation (author, title, publisher etc.) are included correctly.	One part of a citation is missing in one place.	One part of a citation is consistently missing for several entries	Little to no attempt to use APA citation tool correctly
Mechanics	All are correct.	There are no more than 3 mistakes.	Consistent errors throughout.	Many spelling and capitalization errors.
Quality of Resources, primary and especially web sites. Only sites appropriate for a research project are used	Forms for each cited web site included, when necessary, showing that the sites are credible.	Some question about credibility of websites.	Form for website evaluation is missing for more than one site and/or some questions about credibility of sites..	Student includes wikipedia or google.com in works cited list and/or Student shows poor judgment (based on website evaluations) in choice of websites.

Regarding visually representing your research:

Most important communication tip: Audience Awareness, think from the perspective of the people who are watching/listening (empathy!)

E.g. Don’t stand here using crazy jargon like paraprosdokian. Or when one talks about math/science, avoid jargon or difficult concepts, unless you explain them.

Keep the audience engaged and interested! à As revolutionary as your science might be, if they don’t have a reason to care they won’t

Visual Layouts:

- Easy to read/see (reading order, font size and style, colour, layout)

- Important things visually emphasized

- Images, diagrams, graphs and charts! (I’m a visual learner so “these are great words… I just need a picture”; and it breaks up text)

- Visual consistency (same style and colours)

- LESS IS MORE à easier to know the takeaway / main point

Visual tips PPT

What NOT to do!

Back of the Napkin - Dan Roam Graphic helpful ideas on representation/visuals: