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Cite: V – to quote from an author as evidence
Citation: N – quotation form of a reference
Citing: V – process quoting a reference
Reference: N – Mention of a source (i.e
citation)
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Reference: pgs R31-R32
Modern Library Association
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USE
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Purpose
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 English (Discipline)
 Anytime you give a textual example
 Research essay
 Cite sources
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In the document (Ex: Steinbeck 7) - no comma
- direct quote: use quotation marks – your period goes
inside the quotation marks
- summary: No quotations
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End of the doc: Works-Cited List (Title)
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I.D.’s source
Parenthesis
 Outside of quote
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I.D.’s Author last name
I.D.’s page #
 Long quote is separated from rest of text in another
paragraph
 Ex: (Steinbeck 7)
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Title: Works Cited List
There are no bullet points
Page is single spaced
Indent after the first line
Alphabetize all citations
Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men.
London: Penguin Group, 1937.
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What is MLA abbreviated for?
List the two ways to cite sources.
Yesterday you interviewed Ms.
Brooks – Write the citation for a
works cited page.
What is wrong with this internet
citation?
Ouchi High School. 10 Dec. 1937
<http://www.ouchihs.org.>
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T/F: MLA is an abbreviation for
Modern Language Association
What is the major purpose for using
the MLA format?
How is the Works Cited List
organized?
If you were citing a text in your
textbook which citation would you
use?
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to
that iron string” (Emerson,
148).
a. Correct
b. Wrong
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On a sheet of paper, create a Works Cited List from the sources
below. Make any necessary corrections.
Single work from an antholgy
“Teaching Language to an Ape,” by Ann James Premack and
David Premack, Scientific American, October 1972, pp. 9293.
Newspaper
“School History Books, Striving to Please All, Are Criticized as
Bland,” The Wall Street Journal, Vol. 64, No. 46 (September
5, 1979), p. A8.
John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage (New York: Harper and
Brothers, 1955), p.100
John Searle, “What Is a Speech Act?” in Language and Social
Context, ed. Pier Giglioli (New York: Penguin Books, 1972).