MLA PowerPointExpectations for American LiteratureResearch Assignment

General Format

Paper must be typed on standard white paper.

Text of paper must be double-spaced, including the heading.

Margins are set at 1 inch for left, right, top, and bottom

There must be a header on the right side that has the writer’s last name and the page number.

Heading and TitleDirt 1

Joe Dirt

Mrs. Cable

American Lit

January 30, 2014

The Sky’s the Limit: My Plan to become a Pilot

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Note: header to the rightThis is the correct order for information

Whenever you quote, paraphrase, summarize, or otherwise refer to the work of another, you are required to cite its source.

In other words, give credit where credit is due!

In other words: DON’T PLAGERIZE!!

In MLA documentation style, you acknowledge your sources by keying brief parenthetical citations in your text to an alphabetical list of works that appear at the end of the paper.

In-Text Citations

MLA uses parenthetical citation (information about the source inside parentheses).

When possible, work the citation into a sentence that contains some of your own words.

Example: Romantic poetry is characterized by the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth 263).

Note that the period is inserted after the last parenthesis, not after the quotation mark.

Make Your Life Easier

• For the purposes of this research paper, make note of the source’s address as you go along. If you can’t find it later, when preparing your Works Cited page, you cannot use the source!

• The lack of an author most often occurs when using an Internet source. You can still use the source. Begin by listing a title, or name of the webpage.

• Avoid using any Internet source with an address ending in “.com” unless approved by your instructor. “edu” and “org” are generally more reliable.

Citing Internet Sources

You do not need to give paragraph numbers or page numbers based on your print preview.

Do not list the URL address within the text of the paper; save it for the Works Cited page. Instead, list the author of the source, the title, or the name of the webpage.

Methods of Parenthetical Citation

• The following are examples from Purdue OWL: MLA Format:

• According to some, dreams express “profound aspects of personality” (Foulkes 184), though others disagree.

• According to Foulkes’s study, dreams may express “profound aspects of personality” (184).

• Is it possible that dreams may express “profound aspects of personality” (Foulkes 184)?

Quotes of More than Four Lines

You may use only 1 or 2 such quotes in your research paper. The paper should be mainly your thoughts.

Nelly Dean treats Heathcliff poorly and dehumanizes him when

she says:

They entirely refused to have in bed with them, or

even in their room, and I put it on the landing of the

stairs, hoping it would be gone in the morrow. By

chance, or else attracted by hearing his voice, it crept into

Mr. Earnshaw’s door, and there he found it on his quitting

chamber. (Bronte 78)

Note placement of period with quote, lack of quotation marks, and lack of punctuation after the parenthesis.

Make Your Life Easier

• For the purposes of this research paper, make note of the source’s address as you go along. If you can’t find it later, when preparing your Works Cited page, you cannot use the source!

• The lack of an author most often occurs when using an Internet source. You can still use the source. Begin by listing a title, or name of the webpage.

• Avoid using any Internet source with an address ending in “.com” unless approved by your instructor. “edu” and “org” are generally more reliable.

Works Cited

• Begin on a separate page and label as Works Cited (no italics or quotation marks).

• Double space, but do not skip spaces between entries.

• Indent the second and subsequent lines five spaces.

• List page numbers only when needed. • Determine the Medium of Publication.

Most will be print or web sources.

Works Cited

Work from a web source:

Last name, First name. Title of Source. Name of Institution publishing the source. Date source was published. Web. Date you viewed source on the web.

Belli, Brita. "Welcome to Green-Collar America.“

E Magazine Vol. 18, No. 6. Nov./Dec. 2007:

26-31. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 14 Jan

2013.

Works Cited – Entire Web Site

Editor, or author (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.

Works Cited

Basic Format: Last name, First name. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.

Work from an Anthology: Last name, First name. “Title of Story.” Title of Anthology. Ed. Editor’s Name. Place of Publication, Publisher, Year. Page range of entry. Medium.

Works Cited

Belli, Brita. "Welcome to Green-Collar America.“

E Magazine Vol. 18, No. 6. Nov./Dec. 2007: 26-31. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 14 Jan 2013.

College Board. (14 Jan 2013) <http://www.collegeboard.org/ >

Purdue University. (14 Jan 2013) <www.purdue.edu/>

Works Cited

Aristotle. Poetics. Ed. S. H. Butcher. The Internet Classics Archive. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sept. 2007. Web. 23 Nov. 2011.

Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston: Allyn, 2000. Print.

Wysocki. Anne Frances. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2004. Print.

Group Practice

• Write out this source correctly: • An anthology named Literature:

Approaches to Fiction, Poetry and Drama. The editor is Robert DiYanni. It is published by McGraw Hill in 2008. The story you have cited is “The Rocking Horse Winner” by D. H. Lawrence, who was born in 1885 and died in 1930. The pages the story appear on are from page 100 to 110.

Source Used for This PowerPoint

The Purdue OWL. Purdue U Writing Lab, 2010. Web. 4 Oct. 2011.

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/media/pdf/20090701095636_747.pdf

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/media/pdf/20090701095636_747.pdf