CITING AND DOCUMENTING SOURCES
QUOTING FROM AN ARTICLE
Go to Academic Search Premier and retrieve the article "More than 'Just a Game': the implications for schools of children's computer games communities" by Ben Williamson & Keri Facer. Refer to the article's Conclusion:
"It would be churlish to dismiss aspects of games-play such as competitiveness as irrelevant to the discussion—clearly, the challenge of most games is to beat opponents, either virtual or real. While competitiveness is perhaps something we would prefer to keep from the classroom, what is encouraging is that young people are proving themselves prepared to mobilise and utilise all the resources at their disposal to develop and demonstrate expertise. This kind of enterprise and industriousness is clearly
something we would wish these young people to exhibit within their school environments."
Suppose your essay's thesis is: COMPUTER GAMING IS ALREADY PLAYING AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN CHILDREN'S EDUCATION, AND THAT ROLE WILL INCREASE IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS.
Ask yourself these questions:
- Is this particular article relevant to my topic and thesis?
- Where would this article be most appropriate in my essay? In the BACKGROUND SECTION? In the DISCUSSION/ANALYSIS part of my essay? In my INTRODUCTION or CONCLUSION? All of them? None of them? More than one of them?
- How important is this article to my thesis? Should it play a major part in my discussion, or just a minor part?
- Is there anything at all in this article that is stated so perfectly, or that is so important, that I must quote it directly?