Post on 11-Jan-2016
MLA
1. Page setup
2. Parenthetical documentation
3. Works Cited
Page setup
(exit to paper)
Group Questions
What does MLA stand for?
What is better for college level research: popular or scholarly resources? Why?
What is a signal phrase? Example?
What does a works cited page include? Why are you providing readers with this information?
Why use sources?
provide background information
explaining terms or concepts
supporting your claims
lending authority to your argument
anticipating countering objections
How?
1. introduce a source with a signal phrase that includes the name of the author.
2. follow the cited material with a page number in parentheses
3. include in a list of works cited at the end of the paper
citing after introducing the author:
In her introduction to the Oxford version of Jane Austen’s selected letters, Vivien Jones states that, “The 161 letters which have survived are a tiny fraction of the thousands Austen must have written and received” (xiii).
citing without mentioning author
Robert Adams Day is only one of many critics who agree that, “The epistolary novel had a significant impact on the style of the nineteenth and twentieth-century novel” (Bray, 108).
citing without a quote
In fact, two of her six novels, Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, were probably epistolary in their original forms (Bray, 115), and her posthumously-published novel Lady Susan is entirely epistolary.
When should I use quotes?
When language is particularly vivid or expressive
when exact wording is needed for technical accuracy
when it is important to let the debaters of an issue explain their positions in their own words
when the words of an authority lend weight to an argument
when the language of a source is the topic of your discussion (as in analysis or interpretation
The long quote
(exit to paper)
used for a quote of more than four lines of prose or three lines of poetry
indented one inch from left margin
no quotation marks
citation is outside of the final punctuation
It’s all in your book
suggested signal phrases to integrate a source (BH p. 509)
When to cite (BH p. 498-503)
Integrating sources (BH p. 504-516)
In-text citing reference chart (BH p. 519)
Works cited page reference chart (BH p. 530-531)
Your turn
(library access)
source integration