MLA In-Text

The Awakening Research Presentations

Why In-text?

• You demonstrate how well-informed you are, which

gives your ideas authority and credibility.

• Your reader knows exactly where each piece of

information came from.

Punctuation Rules

• In general, the period is placed after the parentheses.

• For example, completing research is an essential piece to

demonstrating college readiness (Knaze).

(Print) Source with Author

• For a book with one author:

• The National Traumatic Stress Network proposes creating a new Institute of Child Abuse and Interpersonal Violence within the National Institute of Health (NIH) to focus and coordinate research on the causes, consequences, treatment and prevention of child abuse (Almond 73).

• For two or three authors:

(Johnson and Smith 13) or (Brown, Smith, and Williams 341).

• For sources with more than three authors:

(Cordero et al. 45).

Sources Without Authors

• The last form of abuse is called exploitation. This

means forcing a child to do something illegal (“Child

Maltreatment”).

• “Child Maltreatment – Psychological Abuse.” Gale

Group. 2010. Health and Wellness. Gale Group. 12

April 2010. <http://galenet.galegroup.com>.

Internet Article (Author & Speaker)

Morgan’s mother, Patti Pena, reports that the driver

“ran a stop sign at 45 mph, broadsided my vehicle

and killed Morgan as she sat in her car seat.” A week

later, corrections officer Shannon Smith, who was

guarding prisoners by the side of the road, was killed

by a woman distracted by a phone call (Besthoff).

Newspaper (Author & Speaker)

Frances Bents, an expert on the relation between

cell phones and accidents, estimates that between

450 and 1,000 crashes a year have some connection

to cell phone use (Layton C9).

Example with the author’s name in

the preceding sentence

• Using police records, John M. Violanti of the

Rochester Institute of Technology investigated

the relation between traffic fatalities in Oklahoma

and the use or presence of a cell phone. He found a

nine fold increase in the risk of fatality if a phone

was being used and a doubled risk simply when a

phone was present in a vehicle (522-23).

A source citing another source

Even a spokesperson for Verizon Wireless has said

that statewide bans are preferable to a “crazy

patchwork quilt of ordinances” (qtd. in Haughney

A8).

Citing more than one source at a

time

• While some distracted drivers receive monetary fines,

others are asked to complete community service

(Pena, Ippolito J1).

• Separate each separate source with a comma.

Presentations

All the same rules still apply.

Include the same components.

• Include a Works Cited page at the end of your presentation.

• Follow MLA format.

• Alphabetize entries.

• Use in-text to cite sources within your presentation too.

• Cite images with hyperlinked captions.

Works Cited (Example)

• Korg, Jacob. Dylan Thomas, Updated ed. New York: Twayne

Publishers, 1992. Twayne's English Authors Series 20.

Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 4 Apr. 2013.

• Thomas, Dylan. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas. New

York: New Directions, 1957. Print.

Presentation slide

• Laugharne, Wales

• First visited in 1937 (Korg 8-11)

• Returned between work for BBC in London (Korg 8-11)

• Eventually purchased for Dylan and Caitlin by his benefactor, Margaret Taylor in 1949

• (Korg 8-11)Thomas’ house in Laugharne, Wales

Questions?