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1 Notes #18 Works Cited Slide and Parenthetical Citations

2 Works Cited Slide  What is it?  A list of resources you used in your presentation  Where does it go?  The last slide or bubble thingy for Prezi.

3 Works Cited Slide - Format  What is the title?  Works Cited (centered on page)  What order?  The resources should be in alphabetical order according to the 1 st letter of the citation.  Use the hanging indent for EVERY citation.  Look at this citation. Notice how it is indented backwards. That’s called a hanging indent: McComb, Todd. "William Byrd." Classicalnet. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Apr 2012..

4 Works Cited Slide - Format  What should the citations look like?  Use the following website (Son of Citation Machine) to help you format your PRINT and WEB resources: http://citationmachine.net/index2.php?reqstyle id=1&newstyle=1&stylebox=1 1. Choose the type of source you are using 2. Fill in the appropriate information 3. Click submit 4. Cut and paste the citation into your Works Cited slide

5 Works Cited Slide - Format  For your DATABASE resource, you can cut and paste the citation from your Cornell Notes form.  JUST MAKE SURE YOU STILL HAVE THE HANGING INDENT.

6 Works Cited Slide - Example Works Cited Blume, Friedrich. The Musical Achievement of the Renaissance. Boston: Scribner, 1985. Print. “Lute.” Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6 th Edition (2011): 1. Middle Search Plus. Web. 18 Apr. 2012. McComb, Todd. "William Byrd." Classicalnet. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Apr 2012..

7 Parenthetical Citations  What is it?  A little note that let’s me know which resource that fact or idea came from.  Where does it go?  At the end of the quoted, paraphrased, or summarized fact or idea (right here). BEFORE THE PERIOD!

8 Parenthetical Citations  What goes in it?  The first word of the citation, usually the author’s last name, and the page number where that fact or idea came from. Example: “William Byrd was the leading composer during the English Renaissance” (Blume 15).

9 Parenthetical Citations Another Example: “The lute has a half pear shaped body” (“Lute”). Why is there no page number?

10 For Further Reading Check out this amazingly helpful website on MLA Citation rules: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource /557/01/


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