Issue #1 – You have a source with two or more authors and you must give them all credit.

Bibliography: Drowne, Kathleen, and Patrick Huber. “Leisure Activities.”

The 1920’s. American Popular Culture Through History. Ed. Ray B. Browne. Westport, CT:

Greenwood Press, 2004.

You do: Fads caught people’s attention more than in generations before (Drowne 146).

You should: Fads caught people’s attention more than in generations before (Drowne and Huber 146).

Issue #2 –You need to sandwich you quotes because you have consecutive citations from the same source and the same page.

You do: The musical Showboat was based on the novel by Edna Ferber with a story line that “follows loves and losses of a riverboat’s crew” (Greenfield and Paradis 570). As Thomas Greenfield and Tracy Paradis explain, Showboat was a groundbreaking production that changed all other musicals before it. It included new issues that had not yet been dealt with such as racism, alcoholism, and spousal abandonment (570).

SANDWICH: As Thomas Greenfield and Tracy Paradis explain, the musical Showboat was based on the novel by Edna Ferber with a story line that “follows loves and losses of a riverboat’s crew[.]” Showboat was a groundbreaking production that changed all other musicals before it. It included new issues that had not yet been dealt with such as racism, alcoholism, and spousal abandonment (570).

Issue #3 – You have a citation that stands alone and needs to be tied to a source!

You do: In a more famous and publicized slaying, Capone never was charged for these deeds, he was involved in “what became known as the St Valentine’s Day Massacre.” On this day, Capone’s men were said to have murdered six members of the Morgan gang and “a friend in the S-M-C Cartage Company Garage”. He was never prosecuted even though it was quite clear Capone was involved (Plummer 176).

If all of that info is from Plummer 176 do this: As Plummer notes, in a more famous and publicized slaying, Capone never was charged for these deeds, he was involved in “what became known as the St Valentine’s Day Massacre.” On this day, Capone’s men were said to have murdered six members of the Morgan gang and “a friend in the S-M-C Cartage Company Garage[.]” He was never prosecuted even though it was quite clear Capone was involved (176).

Issue #4 – You forgot your volume number.

Bibliography: “Utility Companies.” U.S.A.: Twenties. Vol. 6.

Danbury, CT: Grolier, 2005.

You Do: The telegram was not as efficient as the telephone, and seemed to be much more difficult to use (“Utility Companies” 130).

You Should:The telegram was not as efficient as the telephone, and seemed to be much more difficult to use (“Utility Companies” 6:130).

Issue #5 – You have a citation with JUST a page number. You have to direct the reader to the source in your Works Consulted.

You Do: The group was called the Women’s Christian Temerperance Union and they were founded in 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio (27).

Why:• Laziness• You are thinking it is tied to a source above

that where you mention the source name. • You didn’t know where it is from

Issue #6 – You are not including the correct information in the citation.Bibliography: “McPherson, Aimee Semple.” Encyclopedia Americana.

2006 ed.You Do: Through her dad, a Methodist farmer, and her mom, a Salvation Army worker, Aimee’s life was rich with religion from the beginning (Encyclopedia Americana 577).

You Should:Through her dad, a Methodist farmer, and her mom, a Salvation Army worker, Aimee’s life was rich with religion from the beginning (“McPherson” 16:577).

Issue #7 – You are citing from a source that starts with an article title, but you forget the quotation marks.

Bibliography: “Jones, Bobby.” The Lincoln Library of Sports Champions. 8th ed.

Vol. 7. Cleveland, OH: The Lincoln Library, 2007.You Do: Bobby would follow the East Lake Golf Course golf pro around manipulating his swing: “Following Maiden around the course during eighteen hole rounds with club members, Jones developed the natural swing that would become his trademark” (Jones, Bobby 1). You Should:Bobby would follow the East Lake Golf Course golf pro around manipulating his swing: “Following Maiden around the course during eighteen hole rounds with club members, Jones developed the natural swing that would become his trademark” (“Jones, Bobby” 7:1).

Issue #8 – You have information that is NOT COMMON KNOWLEDGE and it is NOT CITED. This is a huge red flag for plagiarism. You Do: Nathan Leopold grew up with little familial interaction and was raised by governesses, one who said even replaced his own mother. He began to walk and talk before the age of six months and was incredibly gifted intellectually scoring upwards of 210 on I.Q. tests. Leopold entered the University of Chicago at the age of 14 as a prodigy and graduated four years later as part of the National Honor Society Phi Beta Kappa. Through studying many cultures and 15 different languages, 5 of which he knew fluently, he became a self-proclaimed atheist and follower of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

CITE THIS WITH A SANDWICH CITATION!!!

Issue #9 – You forget to use the author’s full name the first time in the text of the paper, but NEVER in the ( ).

You Do: At St. Mary’s Babe’s sport of choice was baseball and Babe’s surrogate father Brother Matthias was the first to see his talent (Peter Kalliney 1)

You Should:At St. Mary’s Babe’s sport of choice was baseball and Babe’s surrogate father Brother Matthias was the first to see his talent (Kalliney 1)

Bibliography: Wallace, Joseph, Neil Hamilton, and Marty Appel. “1900-1919: A Sport…And a

Scandal.” Baseball: 100 Classic Moments in the History of the Game. New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2000.

You Do:As Wallace points out, at this point “rumors circulated at the time that a counter-fix was in.” Yet, it appeared shady players were “angry because they hadn’t received all of the money they were owed” and were actually “trying to win” (Wallace and Hamilton and Appel 43).

You Should: As Joseph Wallace, Neil Hamilton, and Marty Appel point out, at this point “rumors circulated at the time that a counter-fix was in.” Yet, it appeared shady players were “angry because they hadn’t received all of the money they were owed” and were actually “trying to win” (43).

Issue #9b– You forget to use the author’s full name the first time in the text of the paper, but NEVER in the ( ).

Bibliography: Drowne, Kathleen, and Patrick Huber. “Leisure Activities.” The 1920’s. American

Popular Culture Through History. Ed. Ray B. Browne. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004.

You do:J. Edgar Hoover says, “I enjoyed taking away people’s rights and spying on people” (Drowne and Huber 212).

You Should: Because the words are Hoover’s and not Drowne or Huber’s you need to do an INDIRECT QUOTATION…use past tense verb and qtd. in:J. Edgar Hoover said, “I enjoyed taking away people’s rights and spying on people” (qtd. in Drowne and Huber 212).

Issue #10– You have a quote from someone being quoted in one of your sources. This is an indirect citation.