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 - 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
- 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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