WEEK TWELVE

Introduction to research paper, bibliography, documentation

and “plagiarism” (2)

Paper Format

See the detailed illustration: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/media/pdf/20090701095636_747.pdf

Details (top left corner)

Peter Chen ( B99002000)Miss ChangMedical English 30Novembner 2011

Put the Title of Your Paper at the center of the line

Peter Chen ( B99002000)Miss ChangMedical English 30Novembner 2011

To Eat or Not to Eat?

Page Number and each paragraph

Page Number: Top RightIndent the first sentence of each paragraph.Justify both sides.1.5 spacing

Bibliography and works cited

Bibliography (large scale) list all referencesWorks Cited –> Only list the cited books,

articles or materials

documentation

the provision of documents in substantiation; also : documentary evidence

Citation in text

An entry in the “Works Cited”

Sources to substantiate your

viewpoints

Two ways of citations

In MLA style, referring to the works of others in your text is done by using what is known as parenthetical citation. This method involves placing relevant source information in parentheses after a quote or a paraphrase.Direct citation “put

them into parentheses” (List author and page

number)

Paraphrase (List author and page

number)

Ways of citations

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (263).

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

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

A sample of the indirect citations

The first gambling Web site appeared in 1995, and online gambling has since become the most lucrative Internet business (Will 92).

George Will reported that in 2002 Internet gambling surpassed pornography to become the Internet's most lucrative business (92).

In your Works Cited list: Will, George F. “Electronic Morphine.”

Newsweek 25 Nov. 2002: 92.

Sample of citations

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as “symbol-using animals” (3).

Human beings have been described as “symbol-using animals” (Burke 3).

In your Works Cited list: Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action:

Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. Berkeley: U of California P, 1966.

In-text Citations for Print Sources with No Known Author

We see so many global warming hotspots in North America likely because this region has “more readily accessible climatic data and more comprehensive programs to monitor and study environmental change . . . ” (“Impact of Global Warming” 6).

In your Works Cited list: “The Impact of Global Warming in North

America.” GLOBAL WARMING: Early Signs. 1999. Web. 23 Mar. 2009.

Attention

The citation can’t exceed 1/5 of your paper!For more information: Google the following

key words: MLA citations MLA paper format

Homework

For all students:Reading (1): The Dangers of

Overwork (pp.110-111)Reading (2): Post-Christmas

Traumatic Syndrome (pp.114-115)Write the introduction of the term

paper.For two students:Oral report