CITING SOURCES CORRECTLY to Avoid Plagiarism:
In-Text Citation & Works Cited - MLA Style
[Note
well: This online handout was supplemented by
additional verbal directions & citation models given in-class on Wed. 10/30/02 ]
1. Compile Works Cited - complete bibliographical entries for all sources cited in text, arranged in alphabetical order by author's last name (or, if "unsigned," by article title); placed on separate page entitled Works Cited, with running page header, at end of paper. For MS (double space & indentation), see sample in Charters (1040-1041) - but must be on separate page.
2. In-text citations of all summary, paraphrase (indirect quotation), quotation taken from your sources (complete biblio info for all must be found on Works Cited page):
a. Author tags with summaries
In published literary criticism, Edgar Allan Poe insisted upon "The Importance of of the Single Effect in a Prose Tale."
[Works Cited at end of paper will give full bibliographical info on the source:]
Poe, Edgar Allen. "The Importance of the Single Effect in a Prose Tale." [First published 1842.] Rpt. The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. Ed. Ann Charters. Compact 6th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003. 921-923.
b. Author tag and page number required for paraphrases & quotations - two methods
[Examples below combine quotation and paraphrase, and note use of brackets to add/change quoted text, and ellipses to omit words contained in the original quoted text. Your paper will be double-spaced! I don’t in these examples to save space.](Example 1)
Charters defines conflict as a "struggle between opposing forces" usually introduced at the beginning of the story (1004). This "opposition [is] presented to the main CHARACTER . . . of a narrative by another character . . ., by events or situations, by fate, or by some aspects of the protagonist's own personality or nature" (1046).
(Example 2)
Conflict is a "struggle between opposing forces" usually introduced at the beginning of the story (Charters 1004). This "opposition [is] presented to the main CHARACTER . . . of a narrative by another character . . ., by events or situations, by fate, or by some aspects of the protagonist's own personality or nature" (Charters 1046).
[In Works Cited at end of paper, reader can find full bibliographical information on this source, easily matched to the in-text author tag Charters]:
Charters, Ann. The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. Compact 6th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003.
See also:
Midterm Preparation & Participation:
Worksheet & Seminar #3
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Week #6
URL:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/worksheet.htm
Literary Analysis Paper
[Midterm] -
Week #7
URL:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/midterm.htm
Using Sources Effectively
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Week #6
URL:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/usingsources.htm
Writing about Literature: Fiction and Film
URL: http://www.cocc.edu/humanities/HIR/Assignments/writing_about_literature.htm
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