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IB Theatre - Production Proposal (first assessment 2024): Citing Your Sources

This guide provides resources for the Production Proposal internal assessment task for IB Theatre (first assessment 2024).

Referencing Requirements

Excerpt from "Internal assessment task—SL and HL: Production proposal, Academic Integrity", p. 39, Theatre Guide, First Assessment 2024, International Baccalaureate Organization.

 

Academic integrity

Students must ensure their assessment work adheres to the IB’s academic integrity policy and that all sources are appropriately referenced. A student’s failure to appropriately acknowledge a source will be investigated by the IB as a potential breach of regulations that may result in a penalty imposed by the IB Final Award Committee. 

Excerpt from "Assessment Task General Rules", p. 19, Production Proposal, Student Information Booklet, IBDP Theatre, First Assessment 2024, by Kieran Burgess. The booklet is available for download on his website here.

 

Your teacher must be confident that all the work is your own, except where you have cited otherwise. So, at the beginning of the task, set up a live document (Google Doc or OneDrive doc) and share it with your teacher. Make sure that everything goes in here, starting with your rough planning, and becoming more and more refined as you go. Your teacher can see your ideas take shape, can ask you about them as you go, and can be sure your submission is your own.

You must cite every image, diagram, quote and idea that isn't yours, and images that are yours should be clearly marked as such. Cite at the point of use, and add a full reference at the end. Forgetting to cite, or not knowing you have to, will not change the consequence you get when it is discovered (it can mean losing the whole IB Diploma).

What is MLA Citation Style?

MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. West Sound Academy recommends that our students use MLA Style for citing the sources used in the Internal Assessment Task for IB Theatre - Production Proposal. MLA Style - 9th Edition

You must cite sources in two places:

  • At the point of use, as a parenthetical (in-text) citation or caption to a photograph or image, and
  • In a full citation in the Works Cited List at the end.

For more guidance on using MLA Style for the citations for your research project, see

MLA Citation Guide (9th Edition)

Citing Works of Art, Photographs, and Images in NoodleTools

Watch this tutorial to learn how to use NoodleTools to cite images in art:  photographs or illustrations, "born digital" images like logos or graphics, or works of visual art. 

Tutorial created by Susan Timmons, Upper School Librarian, The Harpeth Hall School, Ann Scott Carell Library, Nashville, Tennessee, September 5, 2018, using Screencast-O-Matic.  

         

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