HAPPY FRIDAY!
 Today: (Writing Lab)
 Working outline
 Works Cited
 Begin researching
 Books, magazines, personal interviews,
surveys, internet
 Working outline will be turned in
WITH final draft (for extra credit)
Agenda
 Title
 Review Parenthetical Citation and
Works Cited
 Header
PARENTHETICAL CITATIONS
Introducing Quotes
Parenthetical citations
Punctuation
Block Quotes
Introducing a quote
 In Ann Hulbert’s essay “Boy Problems” she
discusses the difference between boys’ and
girls’ tests scores: “What Summers didn’t
spell out is that boys owe their edge in math
to the unusually high performance of a
relatively small number of boys in a pool
that also has more that its share of lowscoring students” (415).
 Hulbert, in her essay entitled “Boy
Problems,” discusses the differences…
 According to Ann Hulbert’s essay “Boy
Problems,” she…
POINTING TO WORKS CITED
 The parenthetical must show the
reader WHERE to find the entire
citation in the Works Cited
 (Hulbert 415)
Hulbert, Ann. “Boy Problems.” The
Language of Composition. Shea,
Renée H. et al. Ed. New York:
Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008. 414-417.
POINTING TO WORKS CITED
 (“Summers’ Remarks” 2)
“Summers' Remarks on Women Draw
Fire.” The Boston Globe. 17 January
2005. 17 February 2009. Print.
HOW WAS THE QUOTE PRINTED?
 Nancy Hopkins, a biologist at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
walked out on Summers' talk, saying
later that if she hadn't left, ''I would've
either blacked out or thrown up.”
 “Nancy Hopkins, a biologist at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
walked out on Summers' talk, saying
later that if she hadn't left, ‘I would've
either blacked out or thrown up’”
(Bombardieri 5).
PUNCTUATION
 “Nancy Hopkins, a biologist at
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, walked out on
Summers' talk, saying later that if
she hadn't left, ‘I would've either
blacked out or thrown up’” (my
emphasis, Bombardieri 5).
PUNCTUATION
 “Nancy Hopkins, a biologist at
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, walked out on
Summers' talk, saying later that if
she hadn't left, ‘I would've either
blacked out or thrown up’”
(author emphasis, Bombardieri
5).
PUNCTUATION
 “Nancy Hopkins, a biologist at
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, walked out on
Summers' talk!” (Bombardieri 5).
 One may find it amazing that
Nancy Hopkins said, “I would
have blacked out or thrown up”!
(Bombardieri 5).
COMMAS
 ALWAYS GO INSIDE THE
QUOTATION MARKS
 Introductory phrases (after
parentheses)
 According to Nancy Hopkins’
remarks that she “would've either
blacked out or thrown up”
(Bombardieri 5), she was obviously
one of Summers’ staunch
adversaries.
CITING QUOTES WITHIN QUOTES
 “A biologist at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, walked
out on Summers' talk and later
said, ‘I would've either blacked
out or thrown up’”? (my
emphasis, Hopkins qtd. in
Bombardieri 5).
CITING ENTIRE WORKS
 Print or nonprint, such as film, TV
program, performance, or an
electronic publication that has no
pagination: PREFERABLE TO
INCLUDE IN THE TEXT, RATHER
THAN IN PARENTHETICAL
REFERENCE
 Diane Rigg gave a memorable
interpretation of Medea.
NO SOLO QUOTES!
 Your words are the bread, the quote
is the meat of the sentence
 You can’t have a sandwich without at
least one piece of bread!
BLOCK QUOTES
 More than four lines of direct quotation
 Place quotations in a free-standing block of
text and omit quotation marks.
 Start the quotation on a new line, with the
entire quote indented one inch from the
left margin; maintain double-spacing.
 Need introductory sentence followed by a
colon to introduce the block quote
 Place parenthetical citation should come
after the closing punctuation mark.

Taken from Purdue OWL
Block Quote Example
Works Cited
 List all of the rules that apply to a
Works Cited page
 Include what NOT to do
Header
 View
 Header Footer
 Last name SPACE (hit the page # button)
 MLA Header should NOT be on every
page
 Regular header is included in Works
Cited