Transcript Citing sources using the MLA format

Why do you need to cite your sources?
 To give credit to the words and ideas of others.
Paraphrased Text
Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).
Quoted Text
Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a "spontaneous overflow
of powerful feelings" (263).
Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful
feelings" (Wordsworth 263).
Why do you need to cite your sources?
 So your readers can find the sources you used.
In-Text C i t a t i o n
Human beings have been described by literary theorist Kenneth Burke
as "symbol-using animals" (3).
W o r k s Cited
Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and
Method. Berkeley: U of California P, 1966. Print.
Order Matters
Author’s First Name Author’s Last Name, (Publication Date):
Name of Journal
“Article Title.”
Page Numbers.
(Publication
Issue Number
Date): Volume
Page Numbers.
Number. Medium.
Punctuation Matters
Author’s Last Name , Author’s First Name . “ Title of Article”
Name
NameofofJournal
Journal 3. 2( 2010 ): 433-439. Database
Name
Name. Web . 17 Jan. 2012 .
Spacing Matters
Fuller, John G. Fever! The Hunt for a New Killer Virus..
New York: Reader’s Digest Press, 1974. Print.
doublespace
& indent
Find the Mistakes!
Francis Fukumaya. “Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the
Biotechnology Revolution.” New York: Farrar, 2002. Print.
Fukuyama, Francis. Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the
Biotechnology Revolution. New York: Farrar, 2002. Print.
Find the Mistakes!
Hulme, Mike, and Brown, James. “Abrupt climate change: Can society
cope?” Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and
Engineering Sciences 361.1810 (2003) pp. 2001-2021. JSTOR.
Hulme, Mike, and James Brown. “Abrupt Climate Change: Can Society
Cope?” Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and
Engineering Sciences 361.1810 (2003): 2001-2021. JSTOR.
Web. 9 Feb. 2012.
Find the Mistakes!
Hertsgaard, Mark. “Confronting the Climate Cranks.” Nation; 2/7/2011,
Vol. 292 Issue 6, p17-21. EBSCOhost. Web. 9 Feb. 2012.
Hertsgaard, Mark. “Confronting the Climate Cranks.” Nation 7 Feb. 2011:
17-21. Academic Search Premier. Web. 9 Feb. 2012.
Find the Mistakes!
Turco, Richard P. Greenhouse Gas Emissions. UCLA Institute of the
Environment. UCLA. Web. February 9, 2012.
Turco, Richard P. “Greenhouse Gas Emissions.” UCLA Institute of the
Environment. UCLA, n.d. Web. 9 Feb. 2012.
Author Last Name, First Name.
“Title of Article.” Name of Magazine
Date Month Year of publication:
page numbers. Name of Database.
Medium. Day Month Year of access.
Author Last Name, First Name.
“Title of Article.” Name of
Newspaper Date Month Year
of pub:Pg #. Database Name.
Medium. Date Month Year of access.
Author or Creator. “Title of
Work.” Title of Name of Website.
Sponsoring Organization.
Date of Publication. Medium.
Date Month Year of access.
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