Referencing & Documenting Sources

b) Documenting Sources

Whenever you quote, paraphrase, summarise, or otherwise refer to the work of another, you are required to cite its original source documentation. Offered here are some of the most commonly cited forms of material.

Direct

Simply having a thinking skill is no assurance that children will use it. In order for such skills to become part of day-to-day behaviour, they must be cultivated in an environment that value and sustains them. “Just as children’s musical skills will likely lay fallow in an environment that doesn’t encourage music, learner’s thinking skills tend to languish in a culture that doesn’t encourage thinking” (Tishman, Perkins and Jay, 1995:5).

Indirect

According to Wurman (1988), the new disease of the 21st century will be information anxiety, which has been defined as the ever-widening gap between what one understands and what one thinks one should understand.

c) Referencing

All sources that you cite in your paper should be listed in the Reference section at the end of your paper. Here’s how you should do your Reference.

From a Journal

DuFour, R. (2002). The learning-centred principal: Educational Leadership, 59(8). 12-15.

From an Online Journal

Evnine, S. J. (2001). The universality of logic: On the connection between rationality and logical ability [Electronic version]. Mind, 110, 335-367.

From a Webpage

National Park Service. (2003, February 11). Abraham Lincoln

Birthplace National Historic Site. Retrieved February 13, 2003,

from http://www.nps.gov/abli/

From a Book

Naisbitt, J. and Aburdence, M. (1989). Megatrends 2000. London: Pan Books.

From an Article in a Book

Nickerson, R. (1987). Why teach thinking? In J. B. Baron & R.J. Sternberg (Eds). Teaching thinking skills: Theory and practice. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company. 27-37.

From a Printed Newspaper

Holden, S. (1998, May 16). Frank Sinatra dies at 82: Matchless stylist of pop. The New York Times, pp. A1, A22-A23.