Abstract
This research is to examine effective methods of teaching proper citation skills in academic writing in college. The authors conducted an analysis of fifteen different teaching materials in terms of seven factors in citation analysis: necessity, re-quotation, relevancy, summary, form of citation, length, and interpretation; and the result of the analysis was then examined for correlation with three core elements of citation that include: academic paper structure, argument development, and purpose of citation. This research has revealed that those fifteen teaching materials do not deal with all of the seven factors exhaustively and also that they focus mainly on explanations and exercises that are not associated with the three elements, which seldom helps students better understand citation in academic writing.
