MLA Citation 101

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MLA Citation 101

• The two parts of MLA documentation work together.
• In-text Citations
• Let readers know that you have quoted,
  paraphrased, or summarized information from an
  outside source. They appear in the body of your
  paper right next to the information youre
  including.
• Works Cited Page
• Is an alphabetical list (at the very end of your
  paper) of your outside sources where readers can
  find the complete bibliographic information for a
  specific source.

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About In-Text Citations

• They tell readers two important things
• What source your quotation or paraphrase is taken
  from.
• Where in the source your quotation or paraphrase
  is taken from.

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Example In-Text Citation When Including a
Quotation in Your Paper

• In this citation, the authors name is in the
  signal phrase before a direct quotation, and the
  page number is in parentheses
• Christopher Metress reports that between July
  1891 and June 1892, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  published twelve Sherlock Holmes stories in the
  Strand Magazine (183).

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Rearranging Our In-Text Citation

• Christopher Metress reports that between July
  1891 and June 1892, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  published twelve Sherlock Holmes stories in the
  Strand Magazine (183).
• Between July 1891 and June 1892, writes one
  scholar, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published twelve
  Sherlock Holmes stories in the Strand Magazine
  (Metress 183).

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Practice Correct These In-Text Citations

• Three may keep a secret he said, if two of them
  are dead. (Benjamin Franklin, p. 99)
• According to one source, dogs are smarter than
  cats. (Smith 2000 pp. 10-21).
• Carol Freeman wrote that weather is the
  trickiest part of learning to fly an airplane
  (Freeman, 95).

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Works Cited Page
Important Works Cited entries are source-type
specific. You must know what kind of source you
are citing. Book, One Author Basic
Format Authors last name, first name. Book
Title. City Publisher, Year. Publication
Medium. (Tip When there is more than one
publishing city, you only need to list the first
one.)
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An Example Works Cited Entry

• Book, One Author
• Basic Format
• Authors last name, first name. Book Title.
  City Publisher, Year. Publication Medium.
• Doyle, A. Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock
  Holmes. New York Harper and Brothers, 1900.
  Print.

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Work Cited What are you looking for?
Book Title
Author
Publishing City
Publishers
Publishing Date
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Practice Making a Works Cited Entry for this
Source
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Works Cited (Answer)

• Rogers, Susan Carol. Anthropology in France.
  Annual Review of Anthropology. 30. (2001)
  481-504. Jstor. Web. 20 October 2008.