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Term Paper & MLA Citation
Internal Assessment
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Writing: Outlining
An Overall View of the Paper:
a) Logical Progression of Arguments
b) Keeping Track and focus
c) Modify as new information trickles ind) Versions of Outline (Outline 1, 2 etc). DO
NOT discard earlier versions
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Thesis Statement
An Answer to a Question or Problem
Single Sentence: Formulates both topic andyour point of view
Your hypothesis to the central question
Will help to see where you are heading Try out different possibilities
Revise TS if need be
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TS: Purpose and Audience
Purpose: Description? Explanation? Argue?
Persuade Reader? Audience: Specialist? Some likely to
Agree/Disagree?
Assistance of Instructor
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Shaping and Organizing
Bring Related Material Together and make
sub headings and sectionsLOGICALLY Plan an Effective Introduction and
Conclusion-with respect to the sequencing
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Organizing Principles
Chronology : (historical discussione.g. how
did the Romantic Movement developed) Cause & Effect: (e.g. The Consequence a
scientific discovery will have)
Process: (e.g. how a certain issue or text got
prominence)
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OP: Contd.
Deductive Logic: moves from general to the
specific (e.g. from the problem of violenceinvolved in religious fomentation to violenceduring Partition)
Inductive Logic: from specific to general
(obverse) Integrating the quotations and sources in
preliminary
Use of Word Processors
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Language and Style
Clarity and Readability of Content
Command of Sentence Structures
Mechanics of Writing: capitalization, punctuation
Avoid language that imply unsubstantiated or
irrelevant generalizations Plagiarism and Academic Integrity
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Documentation: Preparing the List ofWorks Cited (MLA Style)
Styles: MLA, APA, Chicago
Heading: Works Cited/Bibliography/LiteratureCited
End of Paper (continue page numbers from text)
Page Numbers: upper right hand corner
Centre Title
Double space between title and first entry
Each entry from left margin & double space
Hanging Indent: If entry runs more than one line
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Single Author
Alphabetically arrange entries, Begin from authors
surname followed by comma and her name Hardboard, Janet. The Evolution of Films.
Cambridge: Polity, 2007. Print
Bakhtin, M.M. The Dialogic Imagination: Four
Essays. Ed. Michael Holquist. Trans. Caryl Emerson
and Holquist. Austin: U of Texas P 1981. Google
Book Search. Web. 3 Dec. 2007
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Two or MoreWorks by Same Author
Give the name in the first entry only
Thereafter in place of name: type 3 hyphens,followed by a period and the Title.
Tannen, Deborah. Taking Voices: Repetition,
Dialogue and Imagery in Conversational Discourse.
New York: Cambridge UP, 2007. Print.
---. Youre Wearing That? Understanding Mothers and
Daughters in Conversation. New York: Ballantine
Random. 2006. Print.
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Citing Periodical Print Publications
Authors Name
Title of Article (in quotation marks)
Name of the Periodical (italicized)
Series Number or Name
Volume Number
Issue Number (if available)
Date of Publication (year) Inclusive Page Numbers
Medium of Publication consulted
Supplementary Information (if relevant)
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Citing Periodical: contd.
Piper, Andrew. Rethinking the Print Object:
Goethe and the Book of Everything. CriticalInquiry121.1 (2006): 124-38. Print.
Journal Using Only Issue Numbers:
Kafka, Ben. The Demon of Writing:
Paperwork, Public Safety, and the Reign ofTerror. Representations 98 (2007): 1-24.
Print.
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Article in Newspaper or Magazine
Jeromack, Paul. This Once, a David of the
Art World Does Goliath a Favor. NewYorkTimes 13 July 2002, late ed. : B7+. Print.
Varadrajan, Siddharth. Maoists Deliver and
the Government Better Find a Smarter Way.
Hindu 24 August 2010, natl. ed.: 7+. Print.
Others: Abstract, Anonymous Article, Letter
to the Editor. Serialized Article, Special Issue
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CitingWeb Publications
Sometimes unlike print: reprinted works,
broadcasts/podcasts, live performances Multiple databases+ variety of interfaces
IMP to record: Date of Access & Publication
data
Where one work stops and another begins?
How do you define a website, for example?
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URL as supplementary info, not main
Name of the
author/compiler/editor/director/performer/narrator/translator Title of the Work (italicized if independent)
Title of Overall Website (italicized)
Version of Edition Used
Publisher or sponsor of the site
Date of Publication (day-month-year) Medium of Publication (web)
Date of Access (day-month-year)
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Eaves, Morris, Robert Essick and Joseph
Viscomi, eds. The William Blake Archive. Lib.Of Cong., 28 Sept. 2007. Web. 20 Nov.
2007. http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/
http://rpi.edu/web/writingcenter/wc_web/hand
outs/MLa_Style.pdf http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/7
47/01/