HAPPY FRIDAY! Today: (Writing Lab)

Working outline Works Cited Begin researching

Books, magazines, personal interviews, surveys, internet

Working outline will be turned in WITH final draft (for extra credit)

Agenda

Title Review Parenthetical Citation and

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PARENTHETICAL CITATIONS

Introducing Quotes Parenthetical citationsPunctuationBlock Quotes

Introducing a quote In Ann Hulbert’s essay “Boy Problems” she

discusses the difference between boys’ and girls’ tests scores: “What Summers didn’t spell out is that boys owe their edge in math to the unusually high performance of a relatively small number of boys in a pool that also has more that its share of low-scoring students” (415).

Hulbert, in her essay entitled “Boy Problems,” discusses the differences…

According to Ann Hulbert’s essay “Boy Problems,” she…

POINTING TO WORKS CITED

The parenthetical must show the reader WHERE to find the entire citation in the Works Cited

(Hulbert 415)Hulbert, Ann. “Boy Problems.” The

Language of Composition. Shea, Renée H. et al. Ed. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008. 414-417.

POINTING TO WORKS CITED

(“Summers’ Remarks” 2)“Summers' Remarks on Women Draw

Fire.” The Boston Globe. 17 January 2005. 17 February 2009. Print.

HOW WAS THE QUOTE PRINTED?

Nancy Hopkins, a biologist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, walked out on Summers' talk, saying later that if she hadn't left, ''I would've either blacked out or thrown up.”

“Nancy Hopkins, a biologist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, walked out on Summers' talk, saying later that if she hadn't left, ‘I would've either blacked out or thrown up’” (Bombardieri 5).

PUNCTUATION

“Nancy Hopkins, a biologist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, walked out on Summers' talk, saying later that if she hadn't left, ‘I would've either blacked out or thrown up’” (my emphasis, Bombardieri 5).

PUNCTUATION

“Nancy Hopkins, a biologist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, walked out on Summers' talk, saying later that if she hadn't left, ‘I would've either blacked out or thrown up’” (author emphasis, Bombardieri 5).

PUNCTUATION

“Nancy Hopkins, a biologist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, walked out on Summers' talk!” (Bombardieri 5).

One may find it amazing that Nancy Hopkins said, “I would have blacked out or thrown up”! (Bombardieri 5).

COMMAS ALWAYS GO INSIDE THE QUOTATION

MARKS Introductory phrases (after

parentheses) According to Nancy Hopkins’

remarks that she “would've either blacked out or thrown up” (Bombardieri 5), she was obviously one of Summers’ staunch adversaries.

CITING QUOTES WITHIN QUOTES

“A biologist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, walked out on Summers' talk and later said, ‘I would've either blacked out or thrown up’”? (my emphasis, Hopkins qtd. in Bombardieri 5).

CITING ENTIRE WORKS Print or nonprint, such as film, TV

program, performance, or an electronic publication that has no pagination: PREFERABLE TO INCLUDE IN THE TEXT, RATHER THAN IN PARENTHETICAL REFERENCE

Diane Rigg gave a memorable interpretation of Medea.

NO SOLO QUOTES!

Your words are the bread, the quote is the meat of the sentence

You can’t have a sandwich without at least one piece of bread!

BLOCK QUOTES More than four lines of direct quotation Place quotations in a free-standing block of

text and omit quotation marks. Start the quotation on a new line, with the

entire quote indented one inch from the left margin; maintain double-spacing.

Need introductory sentence followed by a colon to introduce the block quote

Place parenthetical citation should come after the closing punctuation mark.

Taken from Purdue OWL

Block Quote Example

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List all of the rules that apply to a Works Cited page

Include what NOT to do

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Last name SPACE (hit the page # button)

MLA Header should NOT be on every page

Regular header is included in Works Cited