Using and Integrating Sources and Proper Citation

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Using and Integrating Sources and Proper Citation

• In order to use a source properly and avoid
  plagiarism, you must perform three different
  stages of integration.

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Stage One. Attribution

• At the point where you first begin to use another
  authors ideas (whether through quotation or
  paraphrasing), you must attribute those ideas
  directly to the author. For example
• In Comic Book Nation, Bradford Wright suggests,

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Stage Two. Citation

• After you have introduced the author's ideas with
  an attribution, you must tell the reader where
  you found those ideas. To do this, you must
  provide a page number citation. This is called
  parenthetical documentation.

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• Frank Millers Batman The Dark Knight Returns
  has been called the most important superhero
  comic since the first issue of Superman.
  Millers comic is certainly one of the most
  important comics of the mid-1980s deconstruction
  of the superhero. Bradford Wright claims, once
  confident symbols of hope, superheroes now spoke
  to the paranoia and psychosis lurking behind the
  rosy veneer of Reagans America (266). Millers
  Dark Knight serves as one of the first and most
  influential examples of this trend.

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Stage Three. Bibliography

• The bibliography completes the process of telling
  your reader where you found your information.
  This happens at the end of your paper and is
  called (under the MLA format, which we are using)
  the "works cited" page. For each author whom you
  discuss in your paper, you must provide a
  bibliographic citation. If you have multiple
  authors, you should list them in alphabetical
  order.

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Works Cited

• Brown, Jeffrey A. Black Superheroes, Milestone
  Comics, and Their Fans. Jackson University of
  Mississippi Press, 2001.
• Wright, Bradford W. Comic Book Nation The
  Transformation of Youth Culture in America.
  Baltimore and London The Johns Hopkins
  University Press, 2003.

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