US History- Case Study: Source Use & Citation

Source Use & Citation

1. Michael Bess includes the author's name, title of the book, publisher, date of publication, and when citing a specific place in the text (on the notes page) he includes a specific page number.

2. Annotated notes explain specifically exactly how the source was used. Bess uses annotated notes to explain further how he used the source in his writing. 

3. Notes 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 24, and 25 do not have a page number citation, and this is because he was not citing a specific page in these specific texts. Bess was most likely using these texts as a whole, rather than only a specific portion and this is why he did not use a page number in his sources. Notes 10 through 14 are different because he is citing a specific idea represented in those pages only. He used so many specific notes to make his notes more detailed and easier for the reader to follow.

4. Bess would use quotation marks and include the name of the author that he was referencing to make it obvious that those words were not his own. Without the notes page, the author would still be known, but the specific work that was being referenced would not.

5. His argument is original because he is using the experiments conducted by others, but made his own conclusions about what the experiment meant and put it into his own words. He analyzes the results and determines how they relate to human psychology. The work that was cited most often was Milgram's shock experiment. He used it as a reference throughout the rest of the book to compare other real-life situations with moral dilemmas to this experiment.

This image shows the way that Milgram's shock experiment was conducted.