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MLA Style . Formatting (layout, measurements) Works Cited (citation styles for different types of sources) Quotations (short and long) How to research MLA . What is a convention?. a rule, method or practice established by generally agreed upon custom
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MLA Style Formatting (layout, measurements) Works Cited (citation styles for different types of sources) Quotations (short and long) How to research MLA
What is a convention? • a rule, method or practice established by generally agreed upon custom • Conventions ensure order and smooth functioning • Imagine if we didn’t have common conventions for traffic signals; chaos! • MLA (Modern Language Association) offers conventions for formatting and citation
Works Cited page • Place at the end of your essay on separate page • Your title will be Works Cited, centered on top of page, • formatting consistent with rest of essay; title is one 1 inch from top of page, and use double space between title and first citation; double space all lines but don’t skip spaces between entries • Make sure to indent .5 inches all lines that follow the first line of a citation (see Purdue OWL example) • citations generally require at least: author(s), title, city of publication, publisher, year
Works cited page: • Order citations alphabetically according to last name • If you don’t know the author’s name, then alphabetize by the title; but ignore prepositions in the title • Ex: alphabetize the title An Entry on the World by “e”, not “a” • See Purdue OWL’s MLA Works Cited sample in next slide
Taken From: Russell, Tony, Allen Brizee, Elizabeth Angeli, Russell Keck, Joshua M. Paiz, and Purdue OWL Staff. "MLA Sample Works Cited Page." The Purdue OWL. Purdue U Writing Lab, 14 Feb. 2013. Web. 29 Oct. 2013.
Book citation - sacred text • Title of book. (edition, if applicable) City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication. • The Qur'an. Elmhurst, New York: TahrikeTarsile Qur'an, Inc., 2001. Print. • The New Testament. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2006. Print.
Book citation - novel • Last name, First name. Title of Book. (edition, if applicable) City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication. • Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha. 10a ed. Barcelona: Plaza & Janés, 1993. Print.
Book citation - Shakespeare • Last name, First name. Title of Book. (edition, if applicable) City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication. • Shakespeare, William. As you like it. Green ed. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2011. Print.
Book - anthology or collection • Lastname, First name. "Title of Essay." Title of Collection. Ed. Editor's Name(s). City of Publication: Publisher, Year. Page range of entry. Medium of Publication. • Shklovsky, Viktor. “Art as Technique.” Literary Theory: An Anthology. Revised edition. Ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Melbourne: Blackwell Publish Ltd., 1998. 17-23. Print.
Book – poem & short story • Atwood, Margaret. "A Paper Bag."Selected Poems II: 1976-1986. Chicago: Mariner Books,1987. 3. Print. • Amiss, Martin. “The Immortals.” The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories. Ed. Daniel Halpern. United State: Viking Penguin, 2000. 25-32. Print.
Book – multiple authors • Garver, Valerie. "Girlindis and Alpais: Telling the Lives of Two Textile Fabricators in the Carolingian Empire." Writing Medieval Women's Lives. Eds. Charlotte Newman Goldy and Amy Livingstone. New York: Palgrave Press, 2012. 155-172. Print.
Electronic – an entire website • Editor, author, or compiler name (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.
Electronic – article from website Author. “Title.” Name of site. Name of publisher. Date of publication. Medium of publication. Date of access. • Anders, Charlie Jane and Mandy Curtis. “Great Character Descriptions from Science Fiction and Fantasy Books.” I09: we come from the future. i09. 21 Jul. 2011. 3:21 pm. Web. 25 Oct. 2013.
Reference – dictionary • “Occident."The Concise Oxford Dictionary. 7th ed. 1988. Print.
Scholarly – journal article • Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal Volume.Issue (Year): pages. Medium of publication. • Binbas, IlkerEvrim. "The Anatomy of a Regicide Attempt: Shahrukh, the Urufis, and the Timurid Intellectuals in 830/1426-27." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 23.3 (2013):391-428. Print.
Quotation – short quote • Some sociologists assert that the development of mastery in a game is, at least in part, "unconscious" (Bourdieu 60), but consciousness is difficult to measure. Pierre Bourdieu, a master theoretician, argued for the limits of "pure theory" (6). • In works cited: • Bourdieu, Pierre. In Other Words: Essays Towards a Reflexive Sociology. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. Print.
Quotation – long quote • Bourdieu explained: I think that just at that time what was necessary was to question the status of philosopher and all its prestige so as to carry out a true conversion into science. And, speaking for myself, although I made an attempt in my work an attempt to put into operation the structural or relational way of thinking in sociology, I resisted with all my might the merely fashionable forms of structuralism. And I was even less inclined to show any indulgence for the mechanical transference of Saussure or Jackobson. (Bourdieu 6)(period goes before citation if quotation is 4 lines or more)
Further MLA research • There are numerous types of sources and variations • You’ll have to learn how to find the correct citation for sources • Next slide has two valuable sites • The first helps you format citations as long as you have relevant info • The second provides good info on MLA
Useful sites • KnightCite - http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/index.php • Purdue MLA - https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
MLA quizzes and games • http://library.williams.edu/citing/game/play.php?game=3 • http://depts.washington.edu/trio/quest/citation/apa_mla_citation_game/index.htm • http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/wrcite1_book.html
Works cited • The Purdue OWL. Purdue U Writing Lab, 2010. Web. 28 Oct. 2013