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Citing your sources You will create a list of the resources you used for your research There is a pattern! You are using MLA style, but there are many other styles We will cite a book together, then you will cite one on your own
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Example: Works Cited Braswell, Karen. I Have Traveled Through Time. Las Cruces: Harbrow Publications, 1999. Print. Wolfe, Emerson. What are you Driving? El Paso: Mills and Luna Association, 2007. Print.
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Rules to remember Title this page: Works Cited It is centered on your page and you skip two lines and begin your citations The works are in alphabetical order Skip one line between citations First line of each different citation is at the margin, second, third, fourth…lines are indented (reverse indention)
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Author’s name: Gibaldi, Joseph. author’s last name, first name.
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Two authors List first author, and second author. Webber, Elizabeth, and Mike Feinstilber.
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Italicize the title of the book, use capital letters appropriately: MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.
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Editions If your book has an edition number: Add information after the title Example: 3 rd ed. 6 th ed. Use Rev. ed. for “Revised edition” Use Abr. ed. for “Abridged edition” Then continue with the city of publication…
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City of publication (not state): and Publisher, New York: The Modern Language Association of America,
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After listing the publisher, place a comma
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Copyright year, check for the most recent year: It looks like 2003 but if you keep looking…
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Here a more recent date is on second page
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Multiple years listed: go with most recent
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Multiple copyright dates: select the most recent
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Other things to look at:
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Information is listed within first two/three pages
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Title and Author are on cover, titles are capitalized, articles and prepositions are not
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This book has been published in many cities
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Always list first city listed
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List up to two authors, more than that refer to the formula
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Always cite your sources. Give credit where credit is due.
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Check your… paper for the correct punctuation periods in correct places capitalization skip lines between each citation alphabetizing of all citations reverse indention correct style for book, internet and database, they vary
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I believe in you, you can cite correctly! You are good looking and smart too! The end!
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Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6 th ed. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2004. Print.
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