MLA Maneuvers
PUP 2013
1. Adhere to MLA Format
2. Construct in-text citations that contain the
correct information
3. Construct works cited pages that contain the
necessary source information in the correct
order and format
Student Learning Outcomes
IDENTIFY, EVALUATE, INTEGRATE, AND DOCUMENT SOURCES
PROPERLY
8.1 Identify and retrieve a variety of relevant sources on a topic
8.2 Evaluate varied and applicable sources to determine weight of
authority, credibility,
objectivity, currency, and relevancy
8.3 Demonstrate ability to take notes
8.4 Write texts that correctly integrate paraphrased or quoted
information from an outside source
8.5 Cite sources using both in-text citations and documentation of
sources
8.6 Demonstrate understanding of the ethical, legal, and social
issues surrounding plagiarism, intellectual property rights, and
academic integrity
ENF 3
• Identify and retrieve possible sources for a
given topic
• Evaluate the relevance and reliability of a
source
• Demonstrate note-taking competency
• Integrate quoted and paraphrased material
into a text, with some accuracy
• Identify the meaning and consequences of
plagiarism
If you work at the Ford Company, you spend all
day making cars. The product you make is a car.
What do academics make? Yes, your professors
spend time teaching students. But [in higher
education], they spend their time researching,
thinking up ideas, and writing. When you do not
cite their ideas or words, you are stealing. You
just popped into their car and drove off with
their work.
Lisa Swann
PLAGIARISM IN DISSERTATION COSTS
GERMAN DEFENSE MINISTER HIS JOB
JUDY DEMPSEY
MARCH 1, 2011
BERLIN — In a bitter political setback for
Chancellor Angela Merkel, Germany’s defense
minister resigned Tuesday under pressure over
his admission that he had plagiarized parts of his
doctoral dissertation.
“ACADEMIC DISHONESTY IS UNACCEPTABLE. The first time a student submits an assignment demonstrating
evidence of academic dishonesty, s/he will receive a grade of “0” on the assignment and have her/his
name recorded in a department database. Any student who is found to have committed a second act of
academic dishonesty will fail the course in which the instance occurred and may be referred to Ray
Jones in the Office of Student Conduct.
According to the Student Handbook, academic dishonest includes, but is not limited to, cheating on an
assignment by giving, receiving, or soliciting information or using unauthorized materials; obtaining or
distributing material purported to be on an upcoming assignment; substituting on an examination for
another person; plagiarism; collusion with another person on an assignment; and knowingly furnishing
false information to the college.
In classes such as this one, the most common form of academic dishonesty is plagiarism. PLAGIARISM IS
ANY ACT WHEREIN YOU DO NOT PROPERLY ACKNOWLEDGE THE THOUGHTS OR WORDS OF ANOTHER OR ATTEMPT TO
PRESENT THOSE THOUGHTS AS YOUR OWN. Please note that this includes failing to submit a works cited page
with your assignment or even accidently forgetting in-text citation or quotation marks.
All work should be independently produced by you for this specific course without outside assistance.
Collusion, or working with another person in the preparation or editing of assignments submitted for
credit, is also unacceptable, unless such collaboration has been specifically approved in advance by me.
In this course, you may only use the academic support services provided by NOVA to get additional
assistance on your assignments. If you have questions about what constitutes academic dishonesty,
please discuss it with your professor [me] before you submit your assignment.”
Adapted from the Division of Languages and Literature policy
Annandale Campus
Credibility
Gum In My Hair
so I'm going to my job interview and I
had no idea that there was gum in my
hair, until I got home and it turned out
that because of that I didnt get the job
because the gum was too distracting.
—Guest Bobby O'brien
Personal Hygiene is a Must!
So i work for a law firm and I was going
to interview a women about the age of
thirty. She had all the right stuff except
for she was wearing a turtleneck with a
large hole under the armpit. I also
appened to see she hadn't shaved in a
while, personal hygiene is a must.
—Guest becky glover
What NOT to Wear to a factory interview
I get people all the time who come in to interview for a factory position wearing a shirt and tie... Sorry! I am
looking for factory workers, not a receptionists. I know people should look decent but come on! A tie for a
factory position?
—Guest HR Rockford
1. Adhere to MLA Format
2. Construct in-text citations that contain the
correct information
3. Construct works cited pages that contain the
necessary source information in the correct
order and format
Italicize
Novels, books, anthologies
Magazines, newspapers,
and journals
Films, TV shows, radio
programs
Web sites
Epic poems
Pamphlets or sermons
Albums, named
symphonies, ballets
Painting, sculptures
Names of specific ships,
spacecraft, or aircraft
Quotation Marks
Short stories, essays, and
chapter titles.
No Marks
Religious texts
Individual articles
Individual episodes of
shows or programs
Individual web pages
Regular poems
Individual songs
Numbered musical
compositions
Type of ship, spacecraft, or
aircraft
Lectures
Supreme Court Cases
Legal documents, treaties,
acts, and declarations
MLA Practice
Mark if italics or quotation marks are needed:
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A Story in an Anthology: The Storm
A Book: Where the Wild Things Are
An Article: Education Needs Help Says Obama
A Newspaper: The Washington Post
A Website: Northern Virginia Community College
A Webpage: Mission & Vision
-Lisa Swan
Italics or quotation marks?
• A Story in an Anthology:
a) The Storm
b) “The Storm”
Fix it!
You are a copy editor and MLA Master. Edit this article for
appropriate capitalizations, italics, and quotation marks!
The new york times is the place to go for book
reviews. Recently, the times has become the premier
newspaper to review children’s literature with an entire
book review issue dedicated to the genre once a year. Prior
to this decade, children’s literature books were often
overlooked as not worthy of proper book reviews. Parents
had to go to a bookstore and guess what book would be
best for his or her child. One of my favorite articles is the
review of the teen novel, the hunger games. John Green
wrote the article, scary new world, in 2008. It was also
published online on the sunday book review webpage.
Don’t forget to look it up if you get a chance!
Lisa Swan
1. Adhere to MLA Format
2. Construct in-text citations that contain the
correct information
3. Construct works cited pages that contain the
necessary source information in the correct
order and format
In-Text Citation
The Great Scavenger Hunt
Signal
Phrase,
“Borrowed
Material”
(Remaining
Source
Information).
Short Direct Quotations
3 Lines or Less
• Introduce with a signal phrase
• Use a comma to join the quotation to the signal phrase
• Use quotation marks to signal the beginning and end of
quote
• Place the parenthetical citation after the quotation
marks
• Place the period after and outside of the parenthetical
citation.
– Moser writes, “The death of the girls was shocking
enough to Tucson, but the city had to face something
more” (574).
Long Direct Quotations
4 Lines or More
• Introduce with a signal phrase
• Use a colon to join the quotation to the signal
phrase
• Indent the quotation twice–one inch from the
margin. Do not give an additional indent to the
first line of the quote.
• Quotation marks are unnecessary because the
indented format tells the reader that the words
are taken word-for-word from the source.
• Place the period before the parenthetical
citation.
• Do not end a paragraph on a long quote.
Direct Quotations
In the article “The Pied Piper of Tucson,” Moser discusses the
varied impacts of the Pied Piper on both city, the community, and the
parents of high school students:
The death of the girls was shocking enough to Tucson, but
the city had to face something more. There were
indications that Smitty had boasted about the killings to
his teen-age followers long before authorities even
began to suspect that murder might have been done.
Nobody spoke up. As the trial began for the murder of
two of the victims—there will be another trial later for the
murder of the third—Tucson’s parents looked closely at
their own children, and at the different young man so man
so many of their children admired. (575)
It is evident that the attacks of the murderer had repercussions
throughout the surrounding area.
Follow the Same Guidelines for
Summaries and Paraphrases
• Introduce the summary or paraphrase with a
signal phrase.
• Place a parenthetical citation before the end
punctuation of the last sentence, to signal the
end of the use of the source.
Signal Phrase
Borrowed Material
Derogatory remarks made by
teachers can have serious
professional and legal
consequences.
One teacher from Florida
faced suspension and a law
suit after a parent discovered
an online discussion
characterizing a student as
between a human and
orangutan on the
evolutionary chain
Remaining Source
Information
(Hibbard).
Hibbard, Laura. “Manatee County School District Teachers Under Fire For Offensive Facebook
Discussion, Comparing Student To Orangutan.” The Huffington Post.
TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc., 3 Jul. 2012. Web. 1 Jan. 2013
General Guidelines
• The identifying source information required in an
in-text citation depends
– upon the source’s entry on the Works Cited page
– upon the source medium (e.g. Print, DVD)
• The identifying source information must be the
first thing that appears on the left-hand margin
of the corresponding entry in the Works Cited list.
Aha! The hanging indent and alphabetical organization of the entries !!!
The identifying source information may appear
either in the sentence itself or in parentheses
following the quotation or paraphrase, but the
page number(s) should always appear in the
parentheses, not in the text of your sentence.
For example:
Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as
"symbol-using animals" (3). Human beings have been
described as "symbol-using animals" (Burke 3).
Signal Phrase
Borrowed Material
Irresponsible posting can result in
termination and legal action.
Hibbard reports a teacher wrote,
“one of my students may be the
evolutionary link between
orangutans and humans.”
(Remaining
Source
Information
Hibbard, Laura. “Manatee County School District Teachers Under Fire For Offensive Facebook
Dicussion, Comparing Student To Orangutan.” The Huffington Post.
TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc., 3 Jul. 2012. Web. 1 Jan. 2013
Signal Phrase
Borrowed Material
Derogatory remarks made by
teachers can have serious
professional and legal
consequences.
One teacher from Florida
faced suspension and a law
suit after a parent discovered
an online discussion
characterizing a student as
between a human and
orangutan on the
evolutionary chain
(Remaining Source
Information).
(Hibbard).
Hibbard, Laura. “Manatee County School District Teachers Under Fire For Offensive Facebook
Dicussion, Comparing Student To Orangutan.” The Huffington Post.
TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc., 3 Jul. 2012. Web. 1 Jan. 2013
Signal Phrase
Borrowed Material
Derogatory remarks made by
teachers can have serious
professional and legal
consequences.
One teacher from Florida
faced suspension and a law
suit after a parent discovered
an online discussion
characterizing a student as
between a human and
orangutan on the
evolutionary chain
(Remaining Source
Information).
(“Manatee County School
District “).
The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc.,
3 Jul. 2012. Web. 1 Jan. 2013
1. Adhere to MLA Format
2. Construct in-text citations that contain the
correct information
3. Construct works cited pages that contain the
necessary source information in the correct
order and format
A note on citation generators
Software citation generators can be helpful, but only if
you know how to cite sources properly in the first place.
Think of spell-check. It can’t edit a paper, and it
sometimes suggests using semicolons where they don’t
belong or replacing a badly misspelled word with one
that is completely inappropriate. If you give a citation
generator the wrong information, it will produce a bad
citation. If you can’t cite sources “by hand” you’ll never
be able to check the citations those programs produce.
-Adam Mitchell
English Adjunct Instructor
(Lunsford 218)
(Lunsford 225)
(Lunsford 229)
Facebook: The New Classroom Commons?
by: Harriet L. Schwartz
Journal: Chronicle of Higher Education
Vol. 56, No. 6.
Abstract
The article discusses possible uses of the Facebook online social network in
academic contexts. Boundaries between personal and professional life on
Facebook are discussed. It notes that people in different age groups seem to
have different understandings of privacy, with younger people taking a more
relaxed approach. It quotes the book "The Handbook of Mentoring at Work:
Theory, Research, and Practice" by Joyce K. Fletcher and Belle Rose Ragins
indicating mentoring potential in even the most fleeting of Facebook
exchanges. The author notes that she hears from students via Facebook,
email, texting and instant messaging and finds that this requires setting of
boundaries. She notes that her students respect the boundaries she sets and
that she feels that the increased connection is worth it.
(October 2009)
pp. B12-B13