Welcome to De Anza!
Agenda
• Schedule
• Citations
• Works Cited Pages
Schedule
• Tomorrow: First draft due
– If your draft is at the required length you do
not have to come to class on Friday
• Friday: I will be available to talk about
drafts
• Monday: Holiday
• Tuesday: Final draft due
• Wednesday: In class writing
Citations
• Purdue Owl
• MLA Citations
• Pay attention to where the parentheses and the
punctuation go.
• Go through your essay. Wherever you used
outside information include a citation. The
citation should be the author’s last name in
parentheses.
• If no author is given, put the first few words of the
title in quotation marks in parentheses.
Quoting, Paraphrasing, and
Summarizing
• Purdue Owl
• Who uses quotations?
• Use quotations sparingly. You use a quotation
when you want to highlight the words
themselves.
• Make sure that quotations flow with your text.
• It might be helpful for you to use quotations when
you are addressing contrary views. This way it
becomes clear that you are not distorting your
opponents’ arguments.
Quoting, Paraphrasing, and
Summarizing
• Do not begin or end paragraphs with quotations.
• Quotations should flow with your own text.
• You should introduce quotations before the
quotation marks and provide additional
commentary in the sentence or sentences after
the quotation marks.
Works Cited Pages
Here are some guidelines:
• Refer to the Purdue Owl’s guidelines for
electronic sources
• Your works cited page should be a separate
page, and the words Works Cited should be
centered on the top line
• Alphabetize according to the first word in each
entry
• Typically the first word is the author’s last name.
If there is no author, then the first word is the first
word in the title that is not the, a, or an.
Works Cited Pages
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Put the title in quotation marks
Italicize the title of the web site
Do not include the URL
Use the word “web” to indicate the medium
Each entry should have a hanging indent
Works Cited Pages
• Write a Words Cited entry. Check out with me
before you leave.
Homework
• Workshop drafts tomorrow