What goes into each entry of your working source list?

• Full reference, tight summary, and use
• The full text of the source, copied in whole
• The author name only, with details added later

Which source most strengthens your argument?

• One that repeats what you already believe
• One that is the easiest to reach online
• Against you, read properly and answered

A source that adds nothing to your question should stay because it was easy to find.

Which sentence weaves a quote well?

• As one historian puts it, 'turnout fell by half' (exact page cited), which suggests the reform missed its audience.
• A whole paragraph quoted at length, with no comment of your own after it.
• A short quote dropped in with no page and no comment.

You have three evenings for reading. Your plan lists facts you lack and context your reader needs. What do you do first?

• Search the open web for anything that mentions your topic
• Mine your best sources' reading lists, ask your teacher, try the library catalogue
• Collect everything you find and sort it out later

You should start your bibliography the night before the deadline, once you know what you used.

Two writers finish. One logged sources daily in one style. The other rebuilds the list at the end from memory. Whose references will a reader trust months later?

• The rebuilder, because fresh eyes catch old errors
• Both equally, since both read the same books
• The daily logger, whose pages check out

A paragraph ends with a long quote and no comment from you. What is wrong?

• Nothing. Long quotes prove wide reading.
• The quote speaks for you. Shorten it, introduce it, and add your conclusion.
• The wording around the quote is too plain.