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This tutorial covers:
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1. General document formatting
2. Avoiding plagiarism:Citing sources - using quotes and paraphrases - identifying sources - integrating sources into your paperDocumenting sources on a Works Cited
page
What is MLA?
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MLA provides standards for:
- General document formatting- Avoiding plagiarism by citing and documenting sources
MLA (Modern Language Association) style formatting is often used in various humanities disciplines.
Format: General Guidelines
Type on white 8.5“ x 11“ paper
Double-space everything
Use 12 pt. Times New Roman font (or similar font)
Leave only one space after punctuation
Set all margins to 1 inch on all sides
Indent the first line of paragraphs one half-inch
Formatting the 1st Page
No title page
Double space everything
In the upper left corner of the 1st page, list your name, your
instructor's name, the course, and date
Center the paper title (use standard caps but no underlining,
italics, quote, or bold)
Create a header in the upper right corner at half inch from the
top and one inch from the right of the page (include your last
name and page number)
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Sample 1st Page
Why use MLA?
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Reason #2: Avoiding plagiarism The guidelines for citing and documenting
sources help you to avoid
plagiarism.
2. Avoiding Plagiarism
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Plagiarism can happen whenever you use words, information, or ideas from a source.
Sources can include books, articles, web pages, interviews, films, advertisements, etc.
Oh yeah!This is good stuff for my
paper.
2. Avoiding plagiarism
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Avoid plagiarism by identifying your sources.
Identify your sources by citing and documenting them.
Do this in two places:
A) Cite your sources in the text of your paper
B) Document your sources on a Works Cited page
A) Citing sources in the text of your paper
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Identify sources in the text of your paper by:
- using quotes and paraphrases- adding author name and page number
A) Citing sources in the text of your paper - Using quotes & paraphrases: a quick review
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Quotesuse theexact words
found ina source.
“tighter gun control in the
United States erodes
Second Amendment rights”
Quotations marks show where the exact words begin and end.
A) Citing sources in the text of your paper - Using quotes & paraphrases: a quick review
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Paraphrasestell your readerswhat the source said,but in your own words.
stricter gun control laws would affect our constitutional rights
Quotations marks are not needed.
Are quotes and paraphrases enough?
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“Tighter gun control in the
United States erodes Second
Amendment rights.”
Stricter gun control laws weaken
our constitutional rights
guaranteed in the Second
Amendment.
No! Quotes and paraphrases alone are not enough.
Click!
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The quote is plagiarism because the source
is not identified.
The paraphrase is also plagiarism because the
source is not identified. (The words were changed, but the idea came from a source)
A) Citing sources in the text of your paper
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Quotes and paraphrases alone aren’t enough to avoid plagiarism.
Identify sources in the text of your paper by:
Using quotes and paraphrases- Adding author name and page number. *** When an author’s name is not provided, use the
title of the article, book or website and the page number
You have two options for adding author name and page number:
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Earp points out that “tighter gun control in the United States erodes Second Amendment rights” (25).
Opponents agree that “tighter
gun control in the United States erodes Second Amendment
rights”
Option 1 Option 2Author name in front of the quote; page number in back.
Author name and page number all in back.
(Earp 25).
Note: The citation is in parentheses and the end punctuation follows!!!!!
The same two options apply to paraphrases:
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Earp argues that stricter gun control laws would affect our constitutional rights (25).
Opponents argue that “stricter gun control laws would affect our constitutional rights” (Earp 25).
Option 1 Option 2Click!
Option 1: Using signal phrases to smoothly
integrate sources into your paper
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Signal phrase
Author last name(s)
Verb of attribution – past tense verbs
Quote or paraphrase
Smith and Wesson
arguedbelievedclaimeddescribedexplainedobserved
pointed outreportedsaidsuggestedthoughtwrote
“tighter gun control in the United States erodes Second Amendment rights."
Tougher gun control weakens our rights guaranteed in the Second Amendment.
Smith and Wesson believed that “tighter gun control in the United States erodes Second Amendment rights” (76).
Smith and Wesson argued that tougher gun control weakens our rights guaranteed in the Second Amendment (76).
Activity: A) Citing sources in the text of your paper
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Select two of the sources on the next slide and cite the source:
1) Quote or paraphrase the words.2) Identify the source by adding author
name(s), and page number. Use Option 1 (name in front, page in back).3) Write down your result.
Activity: Option 1
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My window is a grave, and all that lies within it’s dead.William Gass Page 213
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.Mark Twain Page 141
I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent rewriter.James Michener Page 25
Tattoos and piercings can be seen as bodily aids in the inner struggle toward identity.Andres Martin Page 79
We have an oversimplified perspective of why children develop as they do.Elissa Allen Page 8
The lack of success of recent initiatives suggests that medication might not be the answer for the escalating problem.Luisa Mirano Page 3
2. Avoiding plagiarism
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Avoid plagiarism by identifying your sources.
Identify your sources by citing and documenting them.
Do this in two places: A) Cite your sources in the text of your
paper
B) Document your sources on a Works Cited page
You’ve seen how to do A)So now, let’s do B)
B) Documenting sources on a Works Cited page
What is a Works Cited page?
It’s a bibliography of all the sources you used in your paper.
It includes author names, dates, titles, book titles, names of journals or magazines, names of publishers, page numbers, etc.
Its entries are alphabetized by author’s last name and formatted using hanging indentation.
It’s the last page of your paper, and it stands alone as its own page.
Works Cited Page Entries
Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, andMethod. Berkeley: U of California P, 1966. Print.
Book with one author
Smith, Albert, Kim Yang and Brain Moore “Guns are for Soldiers, Not Civilians: Time 20 Nov. 2000: 70-71. Print.
Article with several authors
“The Impact of Global Warming in North America.” Global Warming: Early Signs. 1999. Web. 23 Mar. 2009.
Article with no known author
(Burke, 32).
(Smith, Yang, and Moore 76).
(“Impact of Global Warming” 6).
Type of source Works Cited Entry In text Citation
Visit the following page:
MLA basics: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/05/
Everything you need to know about documentation and citation can be
found here depending on the type of source you use.
2. Avoiding plagiarism
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Now you’ve seen it all, right? You’ve seen how to avoid plagiarism by identifying your sources in two places:
A) Cite your sources in the text of your paper B) Document your sources on a References
page
You’ve tried A)Now, try B)
Activity: B) Documenting sources on a Works Cited page
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Source type: BookWilliam Gass1977In the Heart of the CountryNew YorkPocket Books
Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. Berkeley, CA: U of California P, 1966. Print.
Model #6: Basic format for a book with one author.
Let’s say you’re using this book in your paper.Here’s all the info you need to create a Works Cited page entry.
Your task is to make this info match the model below.
Write down your result.
Click!
Activity: B) Documenting sources on a References page
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Article from an online periodicalAndres MartinTeenagers and TattoosJournal of the AACAP2010Issue 45, Pages 101 - 133http://aacap.org
Model #48: Article from an online periodical (with one author).
Let’s say you’re also using this article from an online periodical in your paper.Here’s all the info you need to create a Works Cited Page entry.
Your task, again, is to make this info match the model below.
Write down your result.
Bagchi, Alaknanda. "Conflicting Nationalisms: The Voice of the Subaltern in Mahasweta Devi's Bashai Tudu." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 15.1 (1996): 41-50.www.nationalisminthenews.org.
Click!
MLA-- how it all works
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Earp points out that
“tighter gun control in the
United States erodes Second
Amendment rights” (25).
Works Cited
Earp, W. “Frontier Justice: your rights, your gun.” Tombstone Law
Journal 40.4, (2008): 10 – 52. Print.
Wyatt Earp Frontier Justice
Tighter gun control in the United States erodes Second Amendment rights.
25
Earp’s book My paper Works Cited Page
1. Use a source 2. Cite the source
3. Document the source
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Match-Up Game: Match each in-text citation to the correct References entry.
ANiven states, “violent video games greatly contribute to a cultural devaluation of life” (23).
BProponents of the death penalty cite the effectiveness of this method in discouraging repeat offenses (Eastwood 10).
CAccording to Connell, “depictions of wafer-thin celebs in the media distort the self-perceptions of many women” (Allen 17).
1Allen, N. Model Media. Chicago, IL: 2003. Print.
2Eastwood, C. “The death penalty in a humanitarian world.” Journal of Law and Justice, 22.1(2007) 8-26. Print
3Niven, D. (2009). “Licensed to kill?” Journal of SPECTRE,35.1(2009) 15-32. Print
REVIEW: MLA & Avoiding Plagiarism
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Whenever you use words, information, or ideas from a source….
…you must identify the source.
Oh yeah!This is good stuff for my
paper.
Identify your sources by citing and documenting them:
A) Cite your sources in the text of your paper
B) Document your sources on a References page
To Know for Quiz
Formatting your paper. What is plagiarism? Difference between paraphrase and
quoting. Two types of internal citations Formatting a Works Cited page Know what is included in a Works Cited
entry: author, title, publication city, year of publication and type of media.
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