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Creating a Works Cited Page for Your Research Paper
Standard(s): Writing Strategies 1.7 – Use appropriate conventions for documentation in the text, notes, and bibliographies by
adhering to those in style manuals (e.g., Modern Language Association Handbook).
ESLR: Reflective Communicator – Think, read, write, listen, speak well
Objective: After taking notes on proper MLA formatting, you will complete a worksheet to help you create your Works Cited page for
your research paper, showing that you can use these conventions in your own writing.
Directions
Step 1: Look in the box below to review the order of the source information required for each Works Cited entry. Using
the articles that you annotated, fill in the blanks for the Works Cited page below. You can find this information at the
end of each annotated article.
Step 2: After you have filled in all the blanks, look at the each author’s last name or, if the article does not have an
author listed, look at the title of the article (remember to ignore the words “The” and “A”!). Determine the order the
articles should appear in (alphabetized by author’s last name or title of the article) by placing the numbers 1-5 next to
each entry.
Step 3: Create your own Works Cited page for your research paper by following the directions from the PowerPoint and
using the information from the sources below. Remember that including an accurate Works Cited page is a
requirement for this essay. Should you forget this key element, your grade on this essay (and in the class) will suffer.
MLA Citations: Works Cited
Citing Web Publications: A Nonperiodical Publication (i.e. not released on a regular schedule)
Reference: 5.6.2 A Nonperiodical Publication
Name of Author. “Title of Work.” Title of Overall Website. Version or Edition. Publisher or Sponsor (if not available, use
N.p.), Date of Publication (day, month, and year, if nothing is available, use n.d.). Medium of Publication (Web).
Date of access (day, month, and year).
“_______________________________.” American Civil War Roundtable of Australia (NSW Chapter) 2006 Conference
Papers. American Civil War Roundtable of Australia, Inc. (NSW Chapter), 2006. Web. 21 March 2010.
“Introduction: The Assassination of President Lincoln.” WGBH American Experience. WGBH Educational Foundation,
_____________________________. Web. 21 March 2010.
Norton, Roger J. “The Text of John Wilkes Booth’s Diary.” ______________________________. N.p., 29 December
1996. Web. 21 March 2010.
“Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination.” The History Channel website. ______________________________, 2010. Web. 21
March 2010.
____________________________. “The Trial of the Lincoln Assassination Conspirators.” The Trial of the Lincoln
Assassination Conspirators. N.p., 2009. Web. 21 March 2010.
Remember that you will need to cite the articles in your essay in the proper format (below) every time you include a
quotation. (The “mkg raf therord sogehobms” represents the quotation part of your sentence.) The information in the
parentheses represents the “citation” part of your sentence.
Citing the Articles Within Your Paper:
“Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination”: [Transition], “mkg raf therord sogehobms” (“Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination”).
“Introduction: The Assassination of President Lincoln”: [Transition], “mkg raf therord sogehobms” (“Introduction: The
Assassination of President Lincoln”).
“The Lincoln Assassination and Its Aftermath”: [Transition], “mkg raf therord sogehobms” (“The Lincoln Assassination
and Its Aftermath”).
“The Trial of the Lincoln Assassination Conspirators”: [Transition], “mkg raf therord sogehobms” (Linder).
“The Text of John Wilkes Booth’s Diary”: [Transition], “mkg raf therord sogehobms” (Norton).
Directions: On the lines below, copy your “Introduction of Evidence & Evidence” sentence (Sentence 2) from Body
Paragraphs 1, 2, 3, and 5. Make sure that you have include a proper transition and citation (see above) for each one!
Also, make sure you have punctuated each of these sentences correctly. If you did this wrong in your rough draft, make
sure you go back and fix it!
Body Paragraph #1 (time period/historical situation):
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Body Paragraph #2 (assassin’s motivation):
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Body Paragraph #3 (nature of the conspiracy):
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Body Paragraph #5 (political aftermath or consequences):
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