[CASL-L] research/citation tools--what is your school using?--I'll compile the results

[Rocca, Jennifer]

Citation should *become* easy through repetition and practice.  It is a
valuable and necessary skill but nobody (students or teachers) think,
"Yeah!  We get to cite sources today!"  It's just a skill that needs to be
learned through repetition.  Making it too easy is where, in my opinion,
EasyBib went wrong.  It will be hard in the beginning,. and time
consuming.  But it's the swamp they have to wade through to build their
citations muscles.

Then, it will be easy to transfer those skills to any citation tool or
format.

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Dave StGermain <dstgermain at milforded.org>
wrote:

> Hi Dawn -
>
> You might have luck asking the teacher to first consider the *purpose *of
> citation. According to Wikipedia this includes attributing work to the
> actual source and allowing readers to determine the whether or not the
> works cited help to support claims made by the author (Wikipedia
> contributors. "Citation." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The
> Free Encyclopedia, 19 Dec. 2015. Web. 6 Jan. 2016.).
>
> We want students to be able to competently cite their sources when they
> are out in the real world and we should want them to be able to do it using
> any tool available to them.  Locking students into using one tool could
> serve to stop them from properly citing in the future.  If Purdue Owl
> happens to go the way of EasyBib, students should be able to locate and use
> another tool that will help them easily and competently credit their
> sources.
>
> Citation should be easy and enhance all of our work - not get in the way
> of it.
>
> Hope that this helps...
>
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>
> David St.Germain
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> Milford Public Schools
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Jennifer Rocca
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