Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Leslie Bruce
Different disciplines cite sources for different reasons, and they use different methods and styles as they
attribute information to those sources. In this exercise, you will analyze two excerpts from journal
articles to analyze these variations.
Student Instructions:
With your group, read the pages you’ve selected from a journal article in your discipline, making notes
about how each citation is functioning (see the non-exhaustive list of possible functions below for
ideas). Do the same thing for one of the excerpts provided by your instructor—ensure that you choose
an article from a different discipline. Fill in the chart below (add rows as necessary). Afterwards, discuss
your findings with the class.