Qw: What does it mean to cite
your sources?
MLA Paper Formatting
Times New Roman, 12 pt. font
 DOUBLE SPACE
 No extra spaces between paragraphs
 Page Number
 Header
 MLA Sample Paper
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/
747/13/
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Header
FIRST LINE OF REGULAR TEXT, LEFT
JUSTIFIED, DOUBLE SPACED
1. Name
2. Teacher
3. Class
4. Due Date John Smith
Ms. Brooks
English 2, Per. 2
8 Dec 2014
Page Number/Name
1.
2.
3.
Insert: “Page Number”
Click in front of the page number
Type your last name
EX:
Brooks 1
Name
Teacher
Class
Due Date
Citing Your Sources is…
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“… the way you tell your readers that
certain material in your work came from
another source. It also gives your
readers the information necessary to
find that source again.”
(http://www.plagiarism.org/plag_article_what_is_citation.html)
General MLA Works Cited
Guidelines
Sources should be listed in alphabetical
order by first word in entry
 Double space
 Hanging indent
 MLA Sample Works Cited Page
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/
747/12/
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MLA Works Cited Page
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Go to www.easybib.com
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Let’s create a works cited page with a book
as one of our sources.
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Other citation sources: Purdue Owl,
Citation Machine
Interview

Interview name, date, “interview”
EX: Fuller, Ted. 24 Nov. 2014. Interview.
Class Survey

Class Survey. 10 Nov. 2014.
In-Text Citations
WHY do we cite our sources in the text?
No plagiarism: give credit where credit is
due
 To show our readers where we got the
information
 To connect to our Works Cited page so
readers can find our cited material and
more information
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In-Text Citations
WHEN do we cite sources in our text?
 Direct quotes
“Blah, blah” (source).
 Specific facts and numbers
90% of statistics are made up on the
spot (source).
 Paraphrased material: any information
you paraphrase from a source that isn’t
common knowledge (source).
In-text Citations
HOW do we do in-text citations?
From Works Cited page:
(Author’s last name pg. #). OR
(“First Two words of Entry” pg.#).
If there is no page number-leave it out
 Period goes AFTER the closing
parenthesis
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In-text citations
Danhof, Clarence H. Change in Agriculture: The
Northern United States, 1820-1870. Cambridge:
Harvard UP, 1969. Print.
In Text: “The change in agriculture shows that…”
(Danhof 1821).
Change in Agriculture: The Northern United States,
1820-1870. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1969. Print.
In Text: “The change in agriculture shows that…”
(“Change in Agriculture” 1821).