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Miguel Powers
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Introduction
MLA-Modern Language Association
 Guidelines for proper citation to avoid
plagiarism.
 Using proper in-text and end of text
citation is one of the essential skills of
college writing.
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Altruism?
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Remember the fire and the teddy bear
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Agenda
Review Guidelines
 Discuss in-text and end of text citation
 Practice applying and recognizing MLA
Guidelines
 Play MLA Game for extra credit
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Overview
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Proper Citation ensures that you “give
credit where credit is due” and that you fit
into a community of writers.
Source
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Vocabulary
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MLA Citation: Proper use of quotation marks
and parenthetical information to indicate your
use of another author’s words or ideas (AKA
paraphrase).
In-Text Citation: Author’s last name and page
number in parenthesis at the end of the sentence
End of Text Citation: Complete MLA entry on
the Works Cited Page, arranged alphabetically by
the authors’ last names.
Attributive Tag: Your words that introduce the
quotation (e. g. Miner says “The fundamental
belief…).
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MLA Citation: Two Parts
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A) In-text Citation
1) Author’s Last Name
 2) Page Number
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B) End of Text Citation
1) Author’s Name (Last Name, First Name)
 2) Title Information
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• a) “Title of Article”
• b) Title of Source
Book or Journal including editor (Ed.)
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MLA Citation: Part A
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In-text Citation
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Author’s Name
Page Number
Attributive Tag
Example: Horace Miner claims that “the
fundamental belief underlying the whole system
appears to be that the human body is ugly and
has a tendency towards debility and disease”
(Miner 171).
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MLA Citation: Part B
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End of Text Citation
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Author’s last name, First name. “Title of the article.” Title of
the source. Ed. Editor’s name. City of Publication:
Publisher, Year of Publication. Inclusive page numbers.
Example:
Bambara, Toni, Cade. “The Lesson.” Reading and Writing with
Purpose. Ed. Miguel Powers. New York: McGraw-Hill
Primus, 2003. 12-19. Print.
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In-text Citation Review
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Two parts
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Author’s name
Page number in parenthesis
Attributive tag (a. t.)
Example:
While pretending to report about a primitive tribe
called the “Nacerima,” Horace Miner describes
the American culture as an “example of the
extremes to which” humans can go (Miner 171).
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Round One: In-text Citation
5) Barbara Mellix explains that using
“standard English to whites was our way
of demonstrating that we knew their
language and could use it.” (Mellix 289)
 Incorrect: Period inside the quotation
mark, not after the parenthetical citation
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Round One: In-text Citation
15) “I will have my serpent's tongue—my
woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my
poet’s voice,” explains Anzaldua as she
asserts her continued independence (125).
 Correct
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Round Two: End of Text Citation
Works Cited
 Carol Comfort. Breaking Boundaries.
Print.
 Incorrect: Author’s last name first and
lacks publication information
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Round Two: End of Text Citation
Works Cited
 Carol Comfort. Breaking Boundaries.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall,
2000. Print.
 Incorrect: Author’s last, name first.
[Comfort, Carol.]
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Round Two: End of Text Citation
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Works Cited
Anzaldua, Gloria. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue.”
Breaking Boundaries. Ed. Carol Comfort. Upper
Saddle River, NJ: 2000. 119-130. Print.
Lester, James. Writing Research Papers: A Complete
Guide. 3rd ed. New York Longman, 1999. Print.
Rodriguez, Richard. “Aria.” Breaking Boundaries. Ed.
Carol Comfort. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice
Hall, 2000. 299-308. Print.
Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Ed. Linda Buckle and Paul Kelley. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1997. Print.
[Correct: Alphabetical by authors’ last names]
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Final Round
Make a correct Work Cited entry for
Horace Miner’s “Body Ritual Among the
Nacerima.” Each team member writes a
version on a separate piece of paper.
 Write one corrected version and all names
on your final answer.
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Miner Citation Information
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Horace Miner.
Annual Editions: Anthropology. 2000/2001.
“Body Ritual Among the Nacirema”
Editor Elvio Angeloni
Dushkin/McGraw-Hill
2000
Sluice Dock, Conneticut
171-173.
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Final Round
Works Cited
 Miner, Horace. “Body Ritual Among the
Nacirema.” Annual Editions:
Anthropology. 23rd ed. Ed. Elvio
Angeloni. Sluice Dock, CT:
Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, 2000. 171173. Print.
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Summary Quiz
What are the two parts of MLA Citation?
 When should you use MLA Citation?
 What is the difference between quotation
and paraphrase? How do you show the
difference in your paper?
 What questions do you have?
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Where to Get More Information
Writing Handbooks such as:
Maimon, Elaine P. and Janice H. Peritz. A
Writer’s Resource: A Handbook for
Writing and Research. Boston:
McGraw-Hill, 2003. Print.
 Fullerton College Library Home Page
 Fullerton College Writing Center, Tutoring
Center and your instructor.
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