Explaining Your Feedback on Endnotes

Correct use of evidence in endnotes requires three of the 5 Good Habits for Evidence:

· 1 Reliable Sources Only

· 2 Factual Accuracy That You Verify with the Reliable Source Before You Write

· 3 Factual Accuracy That Is Verifiable for Every Statement You Make

Endnotes Feedback – All items with an X apply to your Endnotes. I’m glad to explain each one to you.

	You have no citation at all.
	You have tried citation of some type, but you have no endnotes as required for history.
	You have cited only quotations. Citations are required for statements.
	A citation means everything preceding it is clearly supported by the source on that specific page. You have:
	· Misread or assumed, but the source does not support your statements. See endnote # __.
	· Stated opinions or feelings, but the source does not support your opinions. See endnote # __.
	Based on the pattern of your endnotes and the text, you wrote:
	· A summary of whatever was in the pages of the source (not of the content for the topic).
	· A summary of major issues in 1 paragraph for the earlier time period and for the later one (“C-” to “C+”)
	· A comparison of the 2 periods, with 1 key issue in each paragraph (“B” or “A”)
	When you have 2 (or more) facts in a row from the same page, cite 1 time after the last use. See #s __ __.
	Other:

Who Will Use Your Writing and Evidence in the Future?

If you are dealing with fields that are real (such as biology and business and history), who will use your writing and evidence in the future?

· Experts (such as your boss or a professor who can write a reference for you) will know instantly if you don’t understand.

· You when you try to make a decision

How does this professor read like an expert?

1. Before I grade, I:

· Highlight in two different colors all text in “” and all citations

· Sort all papers by the Comparison Topic so I grade all papers on the same question at the same time

2. As I grade, I place:

· On the left, exact page in your cited source

· On the right, your paper

To quote The Bedford Handbook, the purpose of citation is to let the reader go “straight to the passage” you used. In other words, citation (such as an endnote) connects:

· a place in your paper

· with the exact page # where the reader can find your evidence

Use this video to help you.

How to use endnotes with Microsoft Word and where to place those endnotes in your paper

Also examine Bedford 1 and Bedford 2 in this folder.

You have cited only quotations. Citations are required for statements.

In history and in this course, you must cite both:

· Facts in your own words

· Facts in the author’s words (a quotation)

Also examine Bedford 1 and Bedford 2 in this folder. At the bottom of Bedford 2, notice the example of citation with a fact.

FYI: Citation of facts in your own words is part of the MLA standard and of the Chicago Manual of Style. Professors may decide not to require citations.

A citation means everything preceding it is clearly supported on that specific page.

Examples of what you can’t do:

· You can’t state your opinion or assumption and then a quotation from the textbook and then an endnote for the quotation.

· You can’t quote an overview or a closing statement by the author where the author makes no statement of dates and then write that it applied to specific dates.

If authors didn’t clearly say something, you can’t falsely place your citation so it looks like they did.

WCJC Department:	History – Dr. Bibus
Contact Information:	281.239.1577 or bibusc@wcjc.edu
Last Updated:	2015
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