Transcript MLA – Check for Understanding/Review

 MLA Works Cited
1. What is plagiarism?
2. How do you avoid plagiarism?
3. What does MLA stand for?
4. List 2 reasons why it is
important to cite your sources.
When you copy word
for word or almost
word for word you
must . . . ?
Failure to quote and cite
material is called
_________________________
and will result in a zero on
the assignment!
When you cite you use
______________ if there is one
otherwise use
___________________________.
Never cite by
___________________________
True or False – On your
works cited page all you
need is the web
address.
 True or False – When you cite an
author or title in your essay there
should be a matching entry in your
works cited?
 “Blah Blah Blah” (Anderson). In
your paper
 Then in the works cited
 “Teens use their cell phones too
much”
A Web Site –
 Author Last Name, First Name.
“Title of Web Page.” Website Name.
Website Editor or Company, Date
created or last revised. Web. Date
accessed.
Example: Cohen, Elizabeth. “Five
Ways to Avoid Germs While
Traveling.” CNN.com. CNN, 27 Nov.
2008. Web. 28 Nov. 2008.
 GO TO THE LAST SLIDES!
 1. USE INFORMATION STATED IN THE TEXT TO
SUPPORT YOUR IDEAS.
 2. ANYTHING TAKEN WORD FOR WORD FROM
THE TEXT (OR ALMOST) MUST BE QUOTED AND
CITED.
 3. ANYTHING YOU TAKE FROM THE TEXT AND
PUT IN YOUR OWN WORDS STILL MUST BE
CITED!
 Create two columns on your paper –
label column one MY RESPONSE, label
column two – TEXTUAL EVIDENCE
MY RESPONSE
TEXTUAL EVIDENCE
NOW READ
“TWO DAYS WITH
NO PHONE”
MY RESPONSE
TEXTUAL EVIDENCE
Possible responses:
Interferes with sleep
“Dr. Dowdell says that’s
it’s common
For teen’s sleep to be
interrupted by texts”
(“Two Days Without a
Phone”)
MY RESPONSE
TEXTUAL
EVIDENCE
MY RESPONSE
TEXTUAL EVIDENCE
MY RESPONSE
TEXTUAL EVIDENCE
MY RESPONSE
TEXTUAL EVIDENCE
 1. A direct quotation written by
Chambers found on page 11:
 At the man’s feet is a sign that
reads: “Won’t you help me? I’m
cold and homeless. God Bless You”
 2. A paraphrase from Jack Ziegler’s
book found on page 423:
 Both poet-teachers strongly believe
in the benefits of dream writing for
beginning writers
 3. A direct quotation found on a
webpage titled “Rivers” and
accessed on April 30:
 “Ohio River, Algonquian for
‘beautiful river’, is in the east
central United States”
4. A paraphrase from a webpage
titled “Rivers Unlimited” found
at www.riversunlimited.org/:
A group called Rivers Unlimited
works to preserve rivers all
throughout the state of Ohio
 5. A paraphrase from an article in a
magazine with no author titled
“The New Republic” and found on
page 38:
 Students learned a full year’s
Spanish in ten days using the
complete supermemory method