MLA PowerPoint

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MLA PowerPoint

• Expectations for American Literature
• Research Assignment

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General Format

• Paper must be typed on standard white paper.
• Text of paper must be double-spaced, including
  the heading.
• Margins are set at 1 inch for left, right, top,
  and bottom
• There must be a header on the right side that has
  the writers last name and the page number.

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Heading and Title
Dirt 1 Joe Dirt Mrs. Cable American
Lit January 30, 2014 The Skys the Limit My
Plan to become a Pilot XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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Note header to the right This is the correct
order for information
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• Whenever you quote, paraphrase, summarize, or
  otherwise refer to the work of another, you are
  required to cite its source.

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• In other words, give credit where credit is due!
• In other words DONT PLAGERIZE!!

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• In MLA documentation style, you acknowledge your
  sources by keying brief parenthetical citations
  in your text to an alphabetical list of works
  that appear at the end of the paper.

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In-Text Citations

• MLA uses parenthetical citation (information
  about the source inside parentheses).
• When possible, work the citation into a sentence
  that contains some of your own words.
• Example Romantic poetry is characterized by the
  spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
  (Wordsworth 263).

Note that the period is inserted after the last
parenthesis, not after the quotation mark.
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Make Your Life Easier

• For the purposes of this research paper, make
  note of the sources address as you go along.
  If you cant find it later, when preparing your
  Works Cited page, you cannot use the source!
• The lack of an author most often occurs when
  using an Internet source. You can still use the
  source. Begin by listing a title, or name of
  the webpage.
• Avoid using any Internet source with an address
  ending in .com unless approved by your
  instructor. edu and org are generally more
  reliable.

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Citing Internet Sources

• You do not need to give paragraph numbers or page
  numbers based on your print preview.
• Do not list the URL address within the text of
  the paper save it for the Works Cited page.
  Instead, list the author of the source, the
  title, or the name of the webpage.

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Methods of Parenthetical Citation

• The following are examples from Purdue OWL MLA
  Format
• According to some, dreams express profound
  aspects of personality (Foulkes 184), though
  others disagree.
• According to Foulkess study, dreams may express
  profound aspects of personality (184).
• Is it possible that dreams may express profound
  aspects of personality (Foulkes 184)?

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Quotes of More than Four Lines

• You may use only 1 or 2 such quotes in your
  research paper. The paper should be mainly your
  thoughts.
• Nelly Dean treats Heathcliff poorly and
  dehumanizes him when
• she says
• They entirely refused to have in bed with
  them, or
• even in their room, and I put it on the
  landing of the
• stairs, hoping it would be gone in the
  morrow. By
• chance, or else attracted by hearing his
  voice, it crept into
• Mr. Earnshaws door, and there he found it on
  his quitting
• chamber. (Bronte 78)

Note placement of period with quote, lack of
quotation marks, and lack of punctuation after
the parenthesis.
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Make Your Life Easier

• For the purposes of this research paper, make
  note of the sources address as you go along.
  If you cant find it later, when preparing your
  Works Cited page, you cannot use the source!
• The lack of an author most often occurs when
  using an Internet source. You can still use the
  source. Begin by listing a title, or name of
  the webpage.
• Avoid using any Internet source with an address
  ending in .com unless approved by your
  instructor. edu and org are generally more
  reliable.

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Works Cited

• Begin on a separate page and label as Works Cited
  (no italics or quotation marks).
• Double space, but do not skip spaces between
  entries.
• Indent the second and subsequent lines five
  spaces.
• List page numbers only when needed.
• Determine the Medium of Publication. Most will be
  print or web sources.

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Works Cited

• Work from a web source
• Last name, First name. Title of Source. Name of
  Institution publishing the source. Date source
  was published. Web. Date you viewed source on
  the web.

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• Belli, Brita. "Welcome to Green-Collar America.
• E Magazine Vol. 18, No. 6. Nov./Dec. 2007
• 26-31. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 14 Jan
• 2013.

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Works Cited Entire Web Site

• Editor, or author (if available). Name of Site.
  Version number. Name of institution/ organization
  affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher),
  date of resource creation (if available). Medium
  of publication. Date of access.
• The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab
  and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U, 2008. Web. 23
  Apr. 2008.

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Works Cited

• Basic Format Last name, First name. Title of
  Book. Place of Publication Publisher, Year of
  Publication. Medium of Publication.
• Work from an Anthology Last name, First name.
  Title of Story. Title of Anthology. Ed.
  Editors Name. Place of Publication, Publisher,
  Year. Page range of entry. Medium.

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Works Cited

• Belli, Brita. "Welcome to Green-Collar America.
• E Magazine Vol. 18, No. 6. Nov./Dec. 2007
  26-31. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 14 Jan 2013.
• College Board. (14 Jan 2013) lthttp//www.collegebo
  ard.org/ gt
• Purdue University. (14 Jan 2013) ltwww.purdue.edu/gt

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Works Cited

• Aristotle. Poetics. Ed. S. H. Butcher. The
  Internet Classics Archive. Massachusetts
  Institute of Technology. Sept. 2007. Web. 23 Nov.
  2011.
• Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and
  Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston Allyn,
  2000. Print.
• Wysocki. Anne Frances. Writing New Media Theory
  and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of
  Composition. Logan, UT Utah State UP, 2004.
  Print.

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Group Practice

• Write out this source correctly
• An anthology named Literature Approaches to
  Fiction, Poetry and Drama. The editor is Robert
  DiYanni. It is published by McGraw Hill in 2008.
  The story you have cited is The Rocking Horse
  Winner by D. H. Lawrence, who was born in 1885
  and died in 1930. The pages the story appear on
  are from page 100 to 110.

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Source Used for This PowerPoint

• The Purdue OWL. Purdue U Writing Lab, 2010. Web.
  4 Oct. 2011.

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• https//owl.english.purdue.edu/media/pdf/200907010
  95636_747.pdf
• https//owl.english.purdue.edu/media/pdf/200907010
  95636_747.pdf