Manuscript Form & Source Citation
HUM 211 Course Pack - Fall 2004
 


Short Cuts on this web page: Manuscript Form | Source Citation: Advice & Models
1. Works Cited &  More Examples | 2. In-Text Citation
See also Discussion Paper #1 directions handout

MANUSCRIPT FORM

Final Drafts of your Discussion Papers and Final Project paper - i.e. letter-graded writing assignments - must:

bulletbe typed or word processed using a standard, readable font & point size;

bulletbe double spaced;

bulletbe printed on only one side of standard-sized (8 1/2" X 11") white paper;

bullethave one-inch margins on all four sides of each printed page;

bulletavoid plagiarism & cite sources (see Source Citation below);

bulletbe carefully edited before submission for grading

bulletbe properly identified with standard MLA-style Heading (on first page) and Running-Page Headers (on second and subsequent pages):

MLA-style Heading (see example below), placed on the first page in the upper left-hand corner (please do not prepare a separate title page) - Example Heading:

Janet Mikulski (your name)
HUM 211, Prof. C. Agatucci (identify course & instructor)
Discussion Paper #1 (identify assignment)
28 January 2003 (identify date assignment is due)

MLA-style Running Page Header (see example below) placed in the
upper right-hand corner on subsequent pages - Example Running Page Header:

Mikulski  2
(your last name and the page number)

SOURCE CITATION: Advice & Models
 (See also HUM 211 Syllabus: Plagiarism Policy)
1. Works Cited | More Examples | 2. In-Text Citations

 

Citations--that is, any direct quotations, paraphrases (indirect quotations), and summaries--from primary and secondary sources in your HUM 211 written assignments, must (1) give credit where credit is due to those sources, and (2) enable your readers to find and review the sources for themselves.

1.  WORKS CITED:  This is an alphabetized list of all Works Cited (i.e. quoted, paraphrased, and/or summarized) in your written assignment (i.e. in the body of your Discussion Paper #1). You should give a complete bibliographical entry for each source cited in your paper, and arrange these bibliographical entries in alphabetical order by author's last name (if no author is given, alphabetize by the title of the source).  Your Works Cited page should be placed at the end of your written assignment, the last numbered page with the appropriate Running Page Header (see above).  Example Works Cited page is given below.

YourLastName 5

Works Cited

Achebe, Chinua.  Bates College Commencement Address, 27 May 1996.  Rpt. 1.3 Cross-Cultural Study: Some Considerations.  Cora’s Online Reserve [Access Restricted].  Humanities 211: African Culture & Literature, Central Oregon Community College, Bend, OR, Jan. 2003.

Agatucci, Cora.  2.2 African Praise Songs.  Cora’s Online Reserve [Access Restricted].  Humanities 211: African Culture & Literature, Central Oregon Community College, Bend, OR, Jan. 2003.

Agatucci, Cora.  African Timelines: History, Orature, Literature, and Film.  Humanities 211: Culture & Literature of Africa, Central Oregon Community College, Bend, OR; Winter 2003.  [Accessed:] 13 Jan. 2003. <http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimelinetoc.htm>

Bacon, Katie.  "An African Voice."  Interview with Chinua Achebe.  Atlantic Monthly 2 Aug. 2000.  Atlantic Online, Atlantic Group, 2000.  [Accessed:] 1 Jan. 2003.  <http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/ba2000-08-02.htm>

Cook, Jillian.  “Jillian, Animal Medicine Woman.”  2.3 Student Perspectives: Student Praise Songs (Hum 211, Fall 2000).  Humanities 211: African Culture & Literature, Central Oregon Community College, Bend, OR.  [Accessed:] 11 Jan. 2003.  <http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/studentpraise.htm>

Mutere, Malaika.  "Introduction to African History and Cultural Life."  African Odyssey Interactive [AOI].  Kennedy Center ArtsEdge (Washington DC) - African Society of the National Summit on Africa, 1998 - 2003.  [Accessed:] 19 Jan. 2003.  <http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/aoi/resources/hg/ae-guide.html>

 

More Examples of Works Cited bibliographical entries:

Abrams, M. H.  A Glossary of Literary Terms.  6th ed.  Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1993.

"African Stories."  African Proverbs, Sayings, and Stories.  Moderator: Rev. Joseph G. Healey, M.M., Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.  Urban Ministries Support Group (UMSG), Nairobi, Kenya.  [Accessed:] 19 Jan. 2003. <http://www.afriprov.org/resources/stories.htm>

Agatucci, Cora.  2.4 African Oral Epics.  Humanities 211: African Culture & Literature, Central Oregon Community College, Bend, OR, Jan. 2003.  19 Jan. 2003.  <http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/oralepics.htm>

Agatucci, Cora.  “The Epic of Sundjata: On Translating Orature into Literature.”  2.5 Backgrounds for Keita: The Heritage of the Griot.  Cora’s Online Reserve [Access Restricted].  Humanities 211: African Culture & Literature, Central Oregon Community College, Bend, OR, Jan. 2003.

Agatucci, Cora, ed.  "Cross-Cultural Translation."  Summary of "Translation as a Method for Cross Cultural Teaching," by Anuradha Dingwaney and Carol Maier.  Understanding Others: Cultural and Cross-Cultural Studies and the Teaching of Literature.  Eds. Joseph Trimmer and Tilly Warnock. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1992. 47-62.  Rpt. 1.3 Cross-Cultural Study: Some Considerations.  Cora’s Online Reserve [Access Restricted].  Humanities 211: African Culture & Literature, Central Oregon Community College, Bend, OR, Jan. 2003.

Art and Life in Africa Project.  School of Art & Art History, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IO.  Rev. 1999.  [Accessed:] 19 Jan. 2003.  <http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/index.html>

Giblin, James (Dept. of History, Univ. of Iowa).  "Issues in African History."  Rev. 1999.  Art and Life in Africa Project.  Univ. of Iowa, School of Art & Art History, Iowa City, IA.  1999.  1 Jan. 2003.  <http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/history/giblinhistory.html>

Gift of the Tortoise: A Musical Journey through Southern Africa.  Music for Little People-Warner Brothers, 1994.

Gleason, Judith, ed.  Leaf and Bone: African Praise-Poems.  New York: Penguin, 1994.

Johnson, John William, ed. & trans.  Epic of Son-Jara: A West African Tradition. [Text as performed by griot Fa-Digi Sisoko.]  1986.  African Epic Series, ed. Thomas A. Hale and John W. Johnson.  Bloomington: Midland-Indiana Univ. Press, 1992.

McLane, William. [A Spirit Song Honoring the Kora.] E-mail communication with Cora Agatucci.  August 2001.

Racevskis, Maija. "Applications of African Cinema in the High School Curriculum: A Secondary Teacher's Views of 'Three Tales from Senegal,' 'Ca twiste a Poponguine,' 'Udju Azul di Yonta,' 'Hyenas,' and 'Keita.'"  Research in African Literatures, 27.3(Fall 1996): pp. 98(12). Rpt. Infotrac 2000 Expanded Academic ASAP [Subscription database]: Article A18635808.

Solberg, Ron Mpho Shea.  E-mail Communication with Cora Agatucci.  11 July 1998.  Rpt. 1.3 Cross-Cultural Study: Some Considerations.  Cora’s Online Reserve [Access Restricted].  Humanities 211: African Culture & Literature, Central Oregon Community College, Bend, OR, Jan. 2003.

Svendsen, Christina (Harvard University).  “Points to Ponder.”  “Book Summary – Things Fall Apart.”  CampusNut.com.  CampusNut.com, Inc. 2000-2001.  [Accessed:] 9 March 2002.  <http://www.campusnut.com/book.cfm?article_id=640&section=3>

2.  IN-TEXT CITATION (i.e. in the text of your written assignment) of all direct quotations, paraphrases (indirect quotations), and/or summaries from your sources, is necessary to avoid plagiarism.  The good news is that MLA documentation style eliminates cumbersome footnotes and endnotes for giving credit where credit is due and enabling your readers to find and review your sources for themselves.  Once you have prepared your Works Cited page (see above), MLA in-text documentation style offers fairly easy and unobtrusive means (via author tags and parenthetical citations) to refer your readers--as briefly but clearly as possible--to full bibliographical information on your sources given in the Works Cited page at the end of your paper.  Study the following examples with in-text citations that refer to complete bibliographical entries listed in the example Works Cited page given above.  NOTE:  Web sites & web pages do not generally have standardized page numbers to cite in parenthetical MLA in-text citations.

 

In-Text Citation Example 1: Quotation
Students engaged in cross-cultural study should bear in mind that "Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet" (Achebe).

 

In-Text Citation Example 2: Quotation [using ellipsis . . . to denote words left out]
 "The call-and-response motif . . . establishes and reinforces social and political order within African communities" (Mutere).

 

In-Text Citation Example 3: Paraphrase + Quotation

Chinua Achebe believes that centuries of negative Western images of Africa were motivated by "the need to justify the slave trade and slavery" (qtd. in Bacon).  

 

In-Text Citation Example 4: Summary

A review of Cora Agatucci's African Timelines, Parts I and II,  reveals that Africa has a long history, which includes medieval empires that rival those of Western Europe.

 

In-Text Citation Example 4: Summary + Quotation
 Characteristic of African praise songs are references to the circumstances in which a person was born (Agatucci, 2.2 African Praise Songs).  For example, HUM 211 student Jillian Cook's praise song includes the line "Born in Snow," referring to the fact that she "came into this world early, in a snow bank outside the hospital."

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