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Eng 101BCMLA

In-text (parenthetical) citations

Works cited activity

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What is MLA?

Modern Language Association (1883)

Style most commonly used to write papers and cite sources wit

and humanities Foundation for other styles such as APA

Not every source type has a formula in APA; therefore, mustknowledge

Specifies guidelines for formatting manuscripts and using the E

language in writing

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MLA Basics Use Times New Roman size 12 font, double space throughout, flush

left, paperclip left corner (I have a cat problem, please staple)

In header, Last name and page number in upper right cornerbeginning with page 1

Flush left, your name, instructor’s name, class, date (militarystyle…date month year)

Center title (do not bold, underline, or italicize. Do apply standardrules of capitalization)

Indent each paragraph

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Why use MLA?

Builds writer’s credibility by demonstrating accountability to so

Provides writers with a system for referencing sources (uniform

Protects writers from accusations of plagiarism All of the following are considered plagiarism:

turning in someone else's work as your own

copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit

failing to put a quotation in quotation marks

giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving c

copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of you give credit or not

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Avoiding Plagiarism

Any summary, paraphrase, or quotation used in a paper MUST bedocumented

Exemptions include the following: Common knowledge

Disney theme parks attract thousands of visitors annually

Your own conclusions

Facts found in many sources

Shakespeare’s death

Standard terms

Mouse, CD-ROM, download

If ever unsure, document source

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57-4 Avoiding Plagiarism

1. The sheer number of occasions on which people cryin The Wizard of Oz is astounding.

Plagiarized.Why?

The student uses language borrowed from the originasource without quotation marks and withoutcrediting the author. The following is an acceptablerevision:

Rushdie points out that “the sheer number of occasioon which people cry” in The Wizard of Oz isastounding (223).

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2. Rushdie notes that so many characters cry in TheWizard of Oz that it’s surprising the Wicked Witch dnot get wet and melt away earlier in the film (223-24).

Ok.

Why?

The student has paraphrased without using language structure from the source. The student also cites thauthor’s name and gives the page numbers for thesource in parentheses.

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3. Rushdie points out the number of characters who weep inWizard of Oz: Dorothy cries tears of frustration before beallowed to enter the Wizard’s palace, the guard at the pal

becomes sodden with tears, the Cowardly Lion cries whenDorothy hits him on the nose, the Tin Man nearly rusts upagain from crying, and Dorothy cries again when capturedthe Witch (223).

Plagiarized.

Why?

The student has borrowed words from the source without putting them in quotation marks ( tears of frustration, sodwith tears, rusts up again ) and has plugged in synonyms foother language from the source ( cries/bawls, hits/bops ).

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4. Pointing out how many times characters cry in TheWizard of Oz, Rushdie observes that “if the hydrophoWitch could only have been closer at hand on one of toccasions the movie might have been much shorter” (24).

Ok.

Why?

The student has correctly placed borrowed language inquotation marks and given the author’s name and the page numbers on which the quotation can be found.

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5. Rushdie notes that Dorothy’s weeping makes othercharacters cry, as when her tears “undam a quite alarreservoir of liquid” from the guard in an extremeperformance outside the Wizard’s palace (223).

Plagiarized.

Why?

The student has used the words extreme performance fthe source without putting them in quotation marks.

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Integrating Sources

Attributive tag – signal the author before the information

Ellen Goodman offers this further observation about writers whformulas for achieving success through selfishness: “They are a

Feelgoods, offering placebo prescriptions instead of strong medgive us a way to life with ourselves, perhaps, but not a way to lother” (16).

Or use a regular in-text parenthetical

The author offers this further observation about writers who pe

formulas for achieving success through selfishness: “They are aFeelgoods, offering placebo prescriptions instead of strong medgive us a way to life with ourselves, perhaps, but not a way to lother” (Goodman 16).

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Integrating Sources

Block quotations

quotations 4 lines or more must be double indented

Have a complete sentence before the quote Do not use quotation marks

Barbara Tuchman’s Proud Tower presents a somewhat different vinew conservative leaders:

Besides riches, rank broad acres, and ancient lineage, th

government also possessed, to the regret of the liberal oand in the words of one of them, “an almost embarrassintalent and capacity.” Secure in authority, resting comfortheir electoral majority in the House of Commons and onpermanent majority in the House of Lords, of whom fouconservatives, they were in a position, admitted the sam

“of unassailable strength.” (4).

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Integrating Sources – Avoid freestanding quota

Freestanding quotation

Riena Gross is a chief psychiatric social worker at Illinois MedicaChicago. “Kids have no real sense that they belong anywhere o

as they did ten or fifteen years ago. Parents have loosened the kids are kind of floundering” (Gross 74).

Integrate quote into sentence to create flow

Addressing a seminar at the University of Toronto, Dr. Joseph Pospeculated that “acupuncture may work by activating a neural psuppression mechanism in the brain” (324).

The report further stated, “All great writing styles have their wthe personality of the writer. As Buffon said, ‘The style is the m49).

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58-3 Integrating sources

1.Malcolm Gladwell points out that drivers feel safer in aSUV than in a sports car because they think that the Sdriver’s “chances of surviving a collision with ahypothetical tractor-trailer in the other lane are great(31).

Ok.

Explanation:

The student has put quotation marks around the exactwords from the source and has handled the MLA citatcorrectly, putting the name of the author in a signal phrase and the page number in parentheses.

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2. Gladwell argues that “active safety is every bit as importaas a vehicle’s ability to withstand a collision (31).

The sentence is unacceptable.

Explanation:

The phrase active safety is enclosed in quotation marks in tsource; single quotation marks are required for a quotatiwithin a quotation. In addition, the student has failed to

an ellipsis mark to indicate that the word which is omitte from the quotation. The following is an acceptable revisi

Gladwell argues that “’active safety’…is every bit as importaas a vehicle’s ability to withstand a collision (31).

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3. A majority of drivers can, indeed, be wrong. “Most ofthink that S.U.V.s are much safer than sports cars”(Gladwell 31).

This passage is unacceptable.

Explanation:

The second sentence is a dropped quotation. Quotationshould be introduced with a signal phrase, usually na

the author. The following is an acceptable revision:

A majority of drivers can, indeed, be wrong. As MalcolmGladwell points out, “Most of us think that S.U.V.s armuch safer than sports cars” (31).

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4. According to Gladwell, American SUVs are more likelybe involved in collisions than other vehicles “because[they] can’t get out of the way in time” (31).

Ok.

Explanation:

The student has introduced the quotation with a signal phrase and used brackets to indicate the change from

to they fit the grammar of the sentence.

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5. Gladwell explains that most people expect an SUV “tosurvive a collision with a hypothetical tractor-trailer inother lane” (31).

This sentence is unacceptable.

Explanation:

The student has changed the wording of the source ( ofsurviving ) to fit the grammar of the sentence ( to surv

but has not indicated the change with brackets. The following is an acceptable revision:

Gladwell explains that most people expect an SUV “[tosurvive] a collision with a hypothetical tractor-trailethe other lane” (31).

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MLA in-text citations (regular & attributive tag)

The student is quoting from page 187 of the following essay:

Perez-Torres, Rafael. “Between Presence and Absence: Beloved ,Postmodernism, and Blackness.” Tony Morrison’s Beloved: A Ca

William L. Andrews and Nellie Y. McKay. New York: Oxford UP, 201. Print.

What would the in-text citation (parenthetical) look like for this q

Amy describes the scars on Sethe’s back as a tree, which, as sugge

Rafael Perez-Torres, transforms “the signs of slavery…into an imaginstead of oppression” (187).

In-text citations (parentheticals) must include the author’s last word of title and the page number

(Stanko 7)

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59-1 In-text citations

1.

A. Richard A. Hawley reports that although

ancient Chinese used marijuana for medicpurposes, “there is no record of the Chineusing it as a pleasure-producing drug” (26

Explanation:In MLA style, the sentence period comes aft

the parenthetical citation.

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What is a Works Cited page?

Alphabetical list of sources found at the end of a research-base

Entries are listed alphabetically by author’s or editor’s last name of the work if no author/editor is available

Author names are written last name, first name, middle name (or

Burke, Kenneth

Levy, David M.

Wallace, David Foster

DO NOT list titles (Dr., Sir, Saint, etc.) or degrees (PhD, MA, DDS,

John Smith, PhD appears as Smith, John

DO include suffixes (Jr., II., etc.)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. appears as King, Martin Luther, Jr.

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Works Cited page basics One-inch margins, same header as rest of essay, double spaced

spaces between citations)

Works Cited (do not italicize, underline, bold, or put inside quo

centered at top of page First line of each entry is NOT indented. The second and subse

indented (hanging indent).

Page numbers are hyphenated, not separated by a dash

For every entry, indicate the medium of publication (Print, We

URLs for Web entries are no longer required (instructor/publish .

Use italics (do not underline) titles of larger works (books, mag

If citing a source originally issued in print form but was retrievonline database, type the online database name in italics

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Works Cited page basics

It there is more than one entry per author, works are arrangedby title

For second and all additional entries, type three hyphens and a

place of the author’s name

Stanko, Jeannine. I Like Belly Dancing. Pittsburgh: Random, 2014

---. I Like Cats. Pittsburgh: Random, 2014. Print.

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How to create a Works Cited page

First, adhere to all of the basics as outlined in the previous slid

Second, determine the type of source (book, periodical, electrother [interview, lecture, visual art, film, audio, digital file) be

Third, find the appropriate formula to document the necessaryof the source

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Online Bib Generators - WARNING

Not always correct Inaccurate information

Not up-to-date with current MLA

User error

MAKE SURE YOU DOUBLE CHECK YOUR WORK FOR ERRORS

Electronic Sources

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Electronic Sources Author and/or editor names (if available)

Article name in quotation marks (if applicable)

Title of the Website, project, or book in italics. (Remember that some Printpublications have Web publications with slightly different names. They may,

for example, include the additional information or otherwise modifiedinformation, like domain names [e.g. .com or .net].)

Any version numbers available, including revisions, posting dates, volumes, orissue numbers.

Publisher information, including the publisher name (n.p. if unavailable) andpublishing date (n.d. if unavailble).

Take note of any page numbers (if not available n.pag.). Medium of publication.

Date you accessed the material.

URL (if required, or for your own personal reference; MLA does not require aURL).

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Packet exercises 59-1 & 59-5

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