Exercise #11  Quoting and citing sources (refer to Rampolla, Ch 7)

1) What is the difference between a footnote and an endnote?  What are the relative advantages and disadvantages of the two methods of documentation?




2) Construct a sample footnote or endnote citation using one scholarly secondary source you are using for your research project.



3) Construct a sample bibliographic entry using the same secondary source.



4) Using Note 1 of the Sparks article, identify (you may copy the citations in their entirety or abbreviate them):
a) one journal article

b) one secondary monograph

c) one chapter in an edited volume



5) Pretend you are writing a paper on the Atlantic slave trade and you want to quote directly the remark of Captain John Ashley Hall on p. 563 of the Sparks article.  Construct an appropriate citation for this quotation.



6) Under what circumstances should a historian use ibid.?



7) Look at the quotation at that runs from p. 572 to p.573.  Why is some of the text in brackets?



8) Under what circumstances should a historian use an indented, or block, quotation? Should the block quoatation be enclosed in quotation marks?

9) Examine how Sparks introduces and integrates quotations on p. 561. What determines whether or not he uses punctuation (a comma or a colon) to introduce a quotation?

10) Look at the quotation on p. 561 beginning "The Motives which."  Why does Sparks use ellipses?