Last Week: Review Cause and Effect: The Ebola Virus The first case of the Ebola virus has been reported in the United States and people are panicking. If we over-react to this news, then we will create a climate of hysteria causing more problems than we solve.
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Last Week: Review
Cause and Effect: The Ebola Virus
The first case of the Ebola virus has been reported in the United States and people are panicking. If we over-react to this news, then we will create a climate of hysteria causing more problems than we solve.
Last Week: Review Compare and Contrast
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Session 12: Working With MLA
Eng 216A Research and Information LiteracyProfessor Susan Acampora
ALERT
The following presentation covers established conventions of MLA citation style formatting 7th Ed. derived from your course text Lester and Lester, and other sources.
However, your instructor may have special requirements. Always check with your instructor regarding their requirements
MLA
Lester and Lester. Writing Research Papers: A Complete Guide. 15th Ed. 2012
CHAPTER 11: Blending Reference Material into your Writing by Using MLA Style
Be sure to check our course website Week 6:
http://libraryguides.cnr.edu/RILSA PW = RIL
for more information, links and videos on working with MLA
Publication Manual of the Modern Language Association 7th Edition
Commonly used by freshman composition, literature, English usage, and foreign languages course.
Designed to organize and manage research in a manner recognizable to all in the field
In LTCA your final project will be a Literary Research paper.
The Basics
Use 8 ½ x 11 white paper Any font as long as the italics appear
clearly differentiated from the rest of the text
12 point times font All double spaced 1 inch margins ON ALL SIDES Paragraphs indented by Tab key 1 inch
from margin One space after period or other
punctuation mark
5 Areas to Remember
Header and Heading Title and First Page Sections of the Paper In-Text Citations Work’s Cited Page
The Header and Heading
Header
The header is placed on the upper right corner flush with the right margin, ½” from the top
The header includes your Last Name and # of page.
By Beth Jones and Gina Hurley in collaboration with the Purdue Owl
Heading
Heading is located on the upper left. Heading includes the following
double-spaced: Your Name Professor’s Name Course Date in Day/Month/Year format
Title and First Page
The title is to be centered. Using standard capitalization. DO
NOT CAPITALIZE THE WHOLE TITLE! Do Not Bold or Use Quotations on
Title Use a double space between the title
and the first line of text.
Excerpted from Video by Beth Jones and Gina Hurley in collaboration with the Purdue Owl
Sections within the paper
Sections within the paper
MLA recommends that when you divide an essay into sections that you number those sections with an arabic number and a period followed by a space and the section name. 1. Early Writings 2. The London Years 3. Traveling the Continent 4. Final Years
include the author's (or authors') last name and the page number(s) following the quotation, paraphrase, idea, or fact you are citing.
Example"When his father told him that he was to go back to school again, Charles's eyes filled with tears of gratitude" (Hibbert 83). From the Libguide by Peter
NerzakPellissippi State Community
College
You may also refer to the author's name in the text of your paper. In this case, only the page number is needed following at the end of the sentence.
ExampleAccording to Andrea Tone, President John F. Kennedy took up to eight medications a day to treat illness and stress (112).
Works Cited
Hibbert, Christopher. Charles Dickens: The Making of a Literary Giant. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1983. Print.
Tone, Andrea. The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers. New York: Basic Books, 2009. Print.
Citing two or more books by the same author:
Murray states that writing is "a process" that "varies with our thinking style" (Write to Learn 6).
Additionally, Murray argues that the purpose of writing is to "carry ideas and information from the mind of one person into the mind of another" (A Writer Teaches Writing 3).
The Works Cited Page
Works Cited Page
All references listed on a Works Cited page.
A separate page at the end of the paper. 1 inch margins on each side, double-
spaced Include your header on the upper right The page is to be titled Works Cited
Centered with capitalized first letter of each word, no bold, italics
Hanging indent: Line 1 is flush with the margin/ Line 2 is indented ½ inch.
For more on Variations of In-Text Citing: The Owl @ Purdue