Transcript Creating a Works Cited Page

V. Creating a
Works Cited Page
Using Sources
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Table of Contents
MLA Format
General Rules for Works Cited Pages
General Rules for Works Cited Entries
General Rules for Web Sources
Works Cited Entry: Book
Works Cited Entry: Periodical
Works Cited Entry: Web Site
Additional Research Sources/Information
Next Step: Using Quotations
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My instructor says I need
to use MLA format when
creating a Works Cited
page.
What is that?
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MLA Format
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MLA stands for Modern Language
Association.
MLA format, developed by the Modern
Language Association, provides the style
most instructors in the humanities require
for papers.
There are other formats that can be used,
such as APA (American Psychological
Association) or the Chicago Manual of
Style. Each format has its own set of
rules.
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General Rules for
Works Cited Pages
in MLA Format
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Double space everything on a Works
Cited page.
Center the title Works Cited (no bold,
italics, or underlining) and place it at
the top of the page.
Use a “hanging indent” after the first
line of each entry.
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OK: so what does it look like?
Centered
Title
“Hanging”
Indent
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double-spaced,
and there are
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General Rules for
Works Cited Entries
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The author is usually first in a Works Cited
entry, followed by the source’s title(s) and
publication information.
Place the titles of smaller works (articles,
short stories, book chapters, poems, songs)
in quotation marks.
Italicize the titles of larger works (books,
journals, magazines, newspapers, and films).
Capitalize the first letter of each word in titles
(except articles, short prepositions, or
conjunctions).
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More Rules for
a Works Cited Page
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Include publication medium (Print or Web)
in each citation.
All Web sources need two dates: the date
that the Web page was last updated and
the date the information was accessed
from the Internet.
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Works Cited Entry
for a Book
In-text Citation
Wow! Look at
the connection!
The ideal context for identity
formation is “a supportive and
respectful family” (Levine 169).
Works Cited Entry
Works Cited
Levine, Madeleine, Ph.D. See No Evil: A Guide to Protecting Our Children
from Media Violence. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998. Print.
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Works Cited Entry
for a Periodical
In-text Citation
A graphic example is the series of school shootings that have occurred in recent
years—the most recent occurred on March 21, 2005, at Red Lake High School on
an Indian reservation in Minnesota, where a seventeen-year-old male, who had just
killed his grandparents, shot and killed five students, a teacher and a security guard,
wounded many others and then turned the gun on himself (Wilgoren A-1).
Works Cited Entry
Works Cited
Wilgoren, Jodi. “Shooting Rampage by Student Leaves 10 Dead on
Reservation.” New York Times 22 Mar. 2005, sec. 1: A-1+. Print.
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Works Cited Entry for a Web Site
In-text Citation
Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Johnson spent seventeen years
recording the viewing habits of children in 707 families in Upstate New
York and found that the ones “who watched one to three hours of television
each day . . . were 60% more likely to be involved in assaults and fights as
those who watched less TV” (“Research”).
Works Cited Entry
Works Cited
“Research on the Effects of Media Violence.” Media Awareness Network.
2005. Web. 12 Mar. 2005
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Hmm… what if I am
using something else as
a research source?
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Additional Research Sources
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Lecture or Speech
Chapter in a Book
CD-ROM
Email
Interview
Television or Film
Advertisement
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For More Information
Visit the Purdue Online Writing Lab
for more information about formatting
various Works Cited entries in MLA
format.
(http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/print/
research/r_mla.html)
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Now I need to learn how to
use the information from my
sources in my paper.
How can I use quotations
and avoid plagiarism?
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