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Enclose borrowed language in quotation marks.
Use signal phrases to integrate your sources.
Limit your use of quotations; integrate language
from a source into your own sentence structure. Set off long quotations. Then, quotation marks are
unnecessary.
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According to the MLA Handbook, You must construct a clear, grammaticallyCorrect sentence that allows you to introduce or incorporate a quotation with
complete accuracy (Gibaldi 109). Some examples from the MLA Handbook
are listed below.
Shelley held a bold view: Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of
the World (794).
Shelley thought poets the unacknowledged legislators of the World (794).
Poets, according to Shelley, are the unacknowledged legislators of the
World (794).
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, wrote Charles Dickens
of the eighteenth century.
Reflecting on the incident in Baltimore, Cullen concludes, Of all the things
that happened there / Thats all that I remember (11-12).
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Book with One Author (p.149,MLA; p. 428-429,RW; p.624,BH)
Required Information Author. Title. City: Publisher, Year. Print.
Sample Works Cited Entry Hulme, Keri. The Bone People. New York: Penguin,
1986. Print.
Sample Parenthetical Citation After selling his house and taking his bus to a northern
wilderness by the sea, Joe literally plunges into the
natural by jumping over the edge of a thirty-foot
bluff, telling himself, If I make it, it will be a sign
(Hulme 341).
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Two or More Books by the
Same Author
(p.133,MLA; p.438,RW;p.626,BH)
Required Information Author. Title. City: Publisher, Year. Print.
---. Title. City: Publisher, Year. Print.
Sample Works Cited Entry Frye, Northrop.Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays.
Princeton: Princeton UP, 1957. Print.
---. The Double Vision: Language and Meaning in
Religion. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1991. Print.
Sample Parenthetical Citation ShakespearesKing Learhas been called a comedy
of the grotesque (Frye,Anatomy 237).
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A Work in an Anthology (p.157,MLA; p.433,439-40,RW; p.628,BH)
Required Information Author. Story/Poem. TextbookTitle. Editor.
Edition. Volume. City: Publisher, Year. Print.
Sample Works Cited Entry Anderson, Sherwood. Adventure. The Norton
Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Nina
Baym. 5th ed. Vol. 2. New York: Norton, 1998.
1149-54. Print.
Sample Parenthetical Citation Although Alice faithfully waits for her lovers return,
[] all the time the creeping fear that he would never
come grew back stronger within her (Anderson 1151).
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MoreThan One Quotation
from the Same Source
(p.218,MLA)
Sample Works Cited Entry Zender, Karl F. Loving Shakespeares Lovers:
Character Growth inRomeo and Juliet.
Approaches to Teaching Shakespeares
Romeo and Juliet. Ed. Maurice Hunt. New York:
MLA, 2000. 137-43. Print.
Sample Parenthetical Citation Romeo and Julietpresents an opposition between two
worlds: the world of the everydayand the world of
romance. Although the two lovers are part of the world
of romance, their language of love nevertheless becomes
fully responsive to the tang of actuality (Zender 138,
141).
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An Edited Book (p.158,MLA; p.439,RW; p.628BH)
Required Information Editor(s). Title. Edition. Volume. City: Publisher,
Year. Print.
Sample Works Cited Entry Kirszner, Laurie G., and Stephen R. Mandell, eds.
Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing. 7th ed.
Boston: Wadsworth, 2010. Print.
Sample Parenthetical Citation In Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown, the author
uses symbols, such as the walking stick, the woods,
sunset and night, and the vague shadows to develop
one of its central themes (Kirszner and Mandell 346).
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MLA Cross Reference (p.135,MLA; p.629,BH)
Required Information y Separate entry for the collection (Book with an Editor)
y Author. Title. Editor Pages.
Sample Works Cited Entry Kingston, Maxine Hong. No Name Woman. Oates and
Atwan 383-94.
Oates, Joyce Carol, and Robert Atwan, eds. The Best
American Essays of the Century. Boston: Houghton,
2000. Print.
Walker, Alice. Looking for Zora. Oates and Atwan 395-411.
Sample Parenthetical Citation Walker describes the experience of finding Zora Hurstons
grave as a time when normal responses of grief, horror, and
so on do not make sense because they bear no real relation to
the depth of the emotion one feels (411).
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A Film Cited as an Entire
Work
(p. 197-98,MLA; p.456-57,RW; p.648-49,BH)
Required Information Title. Director. Performer(s). Distributor, Year of
Release. Film.
Sample Works Cited Entry Finding Neverland. Dir. Marc Forster. Perf. Meryl
Streep, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie, RadhaMitchell, and Dustin Hoffman. Miramax, 2004.
Film.
Sample Parenthetical Citation Barrie, in the filmFinding Neverland, is inspired by the
imaginative games he plays with four young boys.
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SacredTexts (p. 164, 227,MLA; p. 435,442,RW; p.630,BH)
Required Information Title. Editor (or Translator). City: Publisher, Year. Print.
Version used.
Sample Works Cited Entry The Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha.
Ed. Herbert G. May and Bruce M. Metzger. New
York: Oxford UP, 1965. Print. Rev. Standard Vers.
Sample Parenthetical Citation Consider the words of Solomon: If your enemy is
hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he is thirsty, give
him water to drink (Oxford Annotated Bible, Prov.
25.21).
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Indirect Sources (p. 226,MLA; p. 432,RW; p. 617,BH)
Required Information Author. Title. City: Publisher, Year. Print.
Sample Works Cited Entry Boswell, James. The Life of Johnson. Ed. George
Birkbeck Hill and L. F. Powell. 6 vols. Oxford:
Clarendon, n.d. Print.
Sample Parenthetical Citation Samuel Johnson admitted that Edmund Burke was an
extraordinary man (qtd. in Boswell 2: 450).
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A Work without Stated
Publication Information or
Pagination
(p. 179-87,MLA; p. 447-49,RW)
Required Information Author. Title. City: Publisher, Year. Print.
Abbreviation for information you
cannot supply
____________________________
n.p. No place of publication given
n.p. No publisher given
n.d. No date of publication given
n. pag. No pagination given
[ ?] Uncertain about the accuracy of the
information you supply, add a question mark
Sample Works Cited Entry Bauer, Johann.Kafka und Prag. [Stuttgart]: Belser,
[1971?]. Print.
Michelangelo. The Sistine Chapel.New York: Wings,
1992. N. pag. Print.
Photographic View Album of Cambridge. [Eng.]: n.p.,
n.d. N. pag. Print.
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Article in a Scholarly Journal (p.137,MLA; p. 444-45,RW; p.633,BH)
Required Information Author. Article Title.Journal Title Volume. Issue
(Year): Pages. Print.
Sample Works Cited Entry Kromholz, Linda. Reading and Insight in Toni
Morrisons Paradise.African American Review
36. 1 (2002): 21-34. Print.
Sample Parenthetical Citation According to one critic, Toni Morrison uses repetition
with a difference to create multiple versions of stories,
to revise dominant history, and to represent processes
of healing, transformation, and insight (Krumholz 21).
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Reprinted Work in a Collection,
such as Contemporary Literary
Criticism, Poetry Criticism, or
Short Story Criticism
(p.159,MLA; p. 445,RW)
Required Information Article Author. Article Title. Publication Information
for Original Source. Collection Title. Collection
Editor. Volume. City: Publisher, Year. Pages. Print.
Sample Works Cited Entry Ash, Susan. The Bone People after Te Kaihau. World
Literature Written in English 29.1 (1989): 123-
35. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed.
Jeffrey W. Hunter. Vol. 130. Detroit: Gale, 2000.
48-55. Print.
Sample Parenthetical Citation According to Susan Ash, Kerewin may repress her
essential self (the self who can lead), and present a
mask of self-satisfied isolation to society, but at no time
does she adopt conventional female roles (49).
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Document from an Internet
Site (1)
(p. 181-90,MLA; p. 447-53,RW; p.636-46,BH)
Required Information
(A text is optional.)
Author. Title of Work. Site Sponsor. Last Date Updated
(or the date of publication). Web. Access Date.
.
Sample Works Cited Entry Garcia Landa, Jose Angel, comp.A Bibliography of
Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology. 13th ed.
U de Zaragoza, 2008. Web.15 May 2008.
Sample Parenthetical CitationAccording to Garcia Landa, the website provides many
scholarly publications that include linguistics, cultural
studies, discourse analysis, and other philological
subjects.
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Document from an Internet
Site (2)Professional Web site
(p. 181-90,MLA; p. 447-52,RW; p.636-46,BH)
Required Information
(A text is optional.)
Author. Title of Short Work. Title of Web site.
Sponsor of Web site. Update date (or n.d. ).
Web. Access Date. .
Sample Works Cited Entry Mitchell, Jacqueline S. Beyond Stress.PBS Online.
3 June 2003. Public Broadcasting Service. Web.
3 June 2003. .
Sample Parenthetical Citation In the article, Mitchell points out that the name of Post
Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is cold and
clinical, but its symptoms can be terrifying, calamitous
and visceral.
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Document from an Internet Site (3) (p. 181-90,MLA; p.447-53, RW; p.636-46,BH)
Required Information
(A text is optional.)
Title of Short Work. Site Title. Sponsor of Web
site. Update date (or n.d. ). Web. Access
Date. .
Sample Works Cited Entry Girl in Peanut Butter Lawsuit Receives Kidney
Transplant. FoxNews.com. Fox News
Channel. 19 June 2007. Web.19 June 2007.
.
Sample Parenthetical CitationFood contamination can have serious consequences;
in one case, an 11-year-old girl whose family says
she became ill after eating peanut butter
contaminated with salmonella received a kidney
donated by her father (Girl).
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Database Article from a
Scholarly Journal
(p. 192-93,MLA; p. 449-52, RW; p.642,BH)
Required Information Article Author. Article Title. Publication Information
for Original Source. Database Title . Web. Access
Date.
Sample Works Cited Entry Benediktsson, Thomas E. The Reawakening of the
Gods: Realism and the Supernatural in Silko and
Hulme. Critique 33.2 (1992):121-31. Academic
Search Complete. Web. 20 June 2007.
Sample Parenthetical CitationThe codes of realism would have us accept two
contradictory codes that the narrative is not literally
true [and] that the work bears a resemblance to social
and psychological reality (Benediktsson).
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MoreDatabase Sources (p.192 ,MLA; p. 452, RW)
Required Information for Using
an Electronic Book (facultypreference)
Author. Title of the Work. City: Publisher, Year.
Sponsor of Web site. Web. Access Date.
Sample Works Cited Entry Kahn, Coppelia.Roman Shakespeare Warriors,
Wounds, and Women. London: Routeledge, 1997.
NetLibrary. Web. 14 June 2007.
Required Information for Using
Article from a Newspaper
Author. Title of the Article. Title of the Newspaper.
Date. Edition: Sessions Page.Publisher or
Sponsor of the Site, Web. Access Date.
Sample Works Cited Entry Eisinger, Jesse. Ahead of the Tape. Wall Street
Journal 3 June 2003, eastern ed.: CI.Proquest.
Web. 10 June 2003.
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Your heading should be in the top right-hand corner, one-half inch from thetop of the page. It includes your last name and the page number. YourWorks Cited page is the last page of your paper, so if you have written afour-page paper, the number on your Works Cited page should be 5.
The entire Works Cited page should be double spaced. Before you begintyping the Works Cited, you should change the line spacing to Double bygoing to Home and Paragraph on the tool bar.
The title (Works Cited) should be centered on first line of the page. Do notitalicize, underline, or bold the title. Do not put quotation marks around it.It should be in the same size font as the rest of your paper.
All of your entries should be alphabetized by the first word in the entry.Usually this word is the author or editors last name; entries with unknownauthors or editors should be alphabetized by the first word of the title.
The first line of each entry should begin on the left margin. If the entry islonger than one line, each subsequent line should be indented one-half
inch (a tab). Italicize all titles of books, plays, newspapers, journals, magazines, films,
albums, and CDs.
Put quotation marks around all titles of articles, short stories, essays,poems, and reference book entries.
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Consult the 7th edition of the MLA Handbook
for Writers of Research Papers and the 6th
edition of the Rules for Writers.
Make an appointment to meet individually with a
Writing Center staff member.
Consult your professor during his/her office
hours.
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To Review On-line:
Visit our web site at
http://libguides.tccd.edu/se-writingcenterand click on the Workshops tab.
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Hacker, Diana. Rules for Writers. 6th ed.Boston: Bedford/St. Marins, 2009. Print.
The Bedford Handbook. 7th ed. Boston:
Bedford/St. Marins, 2006. Print.
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th
ed. New York: The ModernLanguageAssociation ofAmerica. Print.