MLA DOCUMENTATION WORKSHOP: THE WORKS CITED PAGE AND PARENTHETICAL DOCUMENTATION Presented by the CASA Writing Center, Fall 2010 Created by: Chelsea Perez

Our goal today  We want to make you MLA experts!  Works cited page  Parenthetical documentation (in-text citations)  Show you an anthology, a journal, a scholarly journal article, a regular book, etc so you can easily recognize what you’re citing and how to cite it.

Reminder about MLA Format  Typed, double-spaced, one inch margins all the way around  The Works Cited starts on separate page  Works Cited is the title and should be centered  The Works Cited list should be in alphabetical order  Let’s look at a sample MLA essay!  /SampleMLA.pdf /SampleMLA.pdf

Workshop Outline  Book by one author  Book by more than one author  Scholarly Journal Article (print)  Scholarly Journal Article (web & print; found in an online database)  A work in an anthology with anthology editor  A work in an anthology (volume, edition, editor)

Workshop Outline  An entire website (unknown author)  A page from a website (unknown author)  A source with an unknown author

Works Cited: a book by a single author  Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. Title of the Book. City of Publication: Publication Company, year of publication. Medium of Publication.  Sample book citation:  Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: Penguin, Print.

In-text citation: a book by a single author  (Author’s Last Name page number)period  Example:  (Gleick 87).

Works Cited: a book by more than one author  Author A Last Name, Author A First Name, and Author B First name Author B Last Name. Title of the Book. Publication Location: Publication Company. Year of publication. Medium of Publication.  Example:  Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston: Allyn, Print.

In-text citation: a book by more than one author  (Author A Last Name Author B Last Name)period  Example:  (Gillespie and Lerner 68).

Works Cited: a scholarly journal article (print)  Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Journal Volume.Issue (Year): pages. Medium of publication.  Example:  Bagchi, Alaknanda. "Conflicting Nationalisms: The Voice of the Subaltern in Mahasweta Devi's Bashai Tudu." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 15.1 (1996): Print.

In-text citation: a scholarly journal article (print)  (Author Last Name Page Number)period  Example:  (Bagchi 22).

Works Cited: a scholarly journal article (online database)  Author Last Name, Author First Name. “Title of Article.” Title of Journal Volume.Issue (year of publication): page numbers. Database Name. Medium of Publication. Date of Access.  Example:  Langhamer, Claire. “Love and Courtship in Mid- Twentieth-Century England.” Historical Journal 50.1 (2007): ProQuest. Web. 27 May 2009.

In-text citation: a scholarly journal article (online database)  (Author Last Name Page Number)period  Example:  (Langhamer 2).

Works Cited: A work in an anthology  Author Last Name, First name. "Title of Essay." Title of Collection. Ed. Editor's Name(s). Place of Publication: Publisher, Year. Page range of entry. Medium of Publication.  Harris, Muriel. "Talk to Me: Engaging Reluctant Writers." A Tutor's Guide: Helping Writers One to One. Ed. Ben Rafoth. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, Print.

In-text citation: A work in an anthology  (Author Last Name page number)period  Example:  (Harris 25).

Works Cited: A work in an anthology (volume and edition)  Author Last Name, First name. "Title of Essay.” Year. Title of Collection. Ed. Editor's Name(s). Edition number. Volume. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year. Page range of entry. Medium of Publication.  Example:  Stowe, Harriet Beecher. “Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl.” The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Paul Lauter et al. 5 th ed. Vol. B. Boston: Houghton, Print.

In-text citation: A work in an anthology (volume and edition)  (Author Last Name volume number: page range).  Example:  (Stowe 2601).

Works Cited: An Entire Website (unknown author)  Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). Name of Site. Version number. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), date of resource creation (if available). Medium of publication. Date of access.  Example:  The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U, Web. 13 Oct

In-text citation: An Entire Website (unknown author)  (Shortened title of web page page number (if available))period  (Purdue Owl Family).

Works Cited: A Page from a Website (no author)  Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). “Name of Page.” Name of Site. Version number. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), date of resource creation(if available). Medium of publication. Date of access.  “MLA Works Cited: Electronic Sources (Web Publications).” The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U, Web. 13 Oct

In-text citation: A Page from a Website (no author)  (“Shortened title of page from website” page number if available)period  Example:  (“MLA Works Cited”).

Review: In-text Citations for Print Sources with Known Author  For Print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.

Review: In-text Citations for Print Sources with Known Author  Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as "symbol-using animals" (3). Human beings have been described as "symbol-using animals" (Burke 3).

In-text Citations for Print Sources with No Known Author  When a source has no known author, use a shortened title of the work instead of an author name. Place the title in quotation marks if it's a short work (e.g. articles) or italicize it if it's a longer work (e.g. plays, books, television shows, entire websites) and provide a page number.  MLA Handbook or OWL Purdue will tell you which titles need to be italicized of put in quotation marks.

In-text Citations for Sources with No Known Author  Sample Works Cited:  “The Impact of Global Warming in North America.” GLOBAL WARMING: Early Signs Web. 23 Mar

In-text Citations for Sources with No Known Author  Sample in-text citation:  We see so many global warming hotspots in North America likely because this region has “more readily accessible climatic data and more comprehensive programs to monitor and study environmental change... ” (“Impact of Global Warming” 6).

“Making a Hybrid”  Sometimes, your source will have additional information (or very little information)  What to do?  Sometimes you have to make a hybrid  Example: Sometimes works in anthologies will have translators  You can find information on how to cite these things, have no fear!  Visit the WC  Check out our recommendations!

Recommendations from the WC  Purchase the most recent MLA handbook since there have been many significant changes

Recommendations from the WC  Another valuable (and free!) resource is the OWL Purdue Website   Get help with MLA!

Game Time!  Works Cited Game  In-Text Citation Game