Term Paper & MLA Citation

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Term Paper & MLA Citation

Internal Assessment


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Writing: Outlining

An Overall View of the Paper:

a) Logical Progression of Arguments

b) Keeping Track and focus

c) Modify as new information trickles ind) Versions of Outline (Outline 1, 2 etc). DO

NOT discard earlier versions


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Thesis Statement

An Answer to a Question or Problem

Single Sentence: Formulates both topic andyour point of view

Your hypothesis to the central question

Will help to see where you are heading Try out different possibilities

Revise TS if need be


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TS: Purpose and Audience

Purpose: Description? Explanation? Argue?

Persuade Reader? Audience: Specialist? Some likely to

Agree/Disagree?

Assistance of Instructor


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Shaping and Organizing

Bring Related Material Together and make

sub headings and sectionsLOGICALLY Plan an Effective Introduction and

Conclusion-with respect to the sequencing


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Organizing Principles

Chronology : (historical discussione.g. how

did the Romantic Movement developed) Cause & Effect: (e.g. The Consequence a

scientific discovery will have)

Process: (e.g. how a certain issue or text got

prominence)


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OP: Contd.

Deductive Logic: moves from general to the

specific (e.g. from the problem of violenceinvolved in religious fomentation to violenceduring Partition)

Inductive Logic: from specific to general

(obverse) Integrating the quotations and sources in

preliminary

Use of Word Processors


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Language and Style

Clarity and Readability of Content

Command of Sentence Structures

Mechanics of Writing: capitalization, punctuation

Avoid language that imply unsubstantiated or

irrelevant generalizations Plagiarism and Academic Integrity


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Documentation: Preparing the List ofWorks Cited (MLA Style)

Styles: MLA, APA, Chicago

Heading: Works Cited/Bibliography/LiteratureCited

End of Paper (continue page numbers from text)

Page Numbers: upper right hand corner

Centre Title

Double space between title and first entry

Each entry from left margin & double space

Hanging Indent: If entry runs more than one line


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Single Author

Alphabetically arrange entries, Begin from authors

surname followed by comma and her name Hardboard, Janet. The Evolution of Films.

Cambridge: Polity, 2007. Print

Bakhtin, M.M. The Dialogic Imagination: Four

Essays. Ed. Michael Holquist. Trans. Caryl Emerson

and Holquist. Austin: U of Texas P 1981. Google

Book Search. Web. 3 Dec. 2007


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Two or MoreWorks by Same Author

Give the name in the first entry only

Thereafter in place of name: type 3 hyphens,followed by a period and the Title.

Tannen, Deborah. Taking Voices: Repetition,

Dialogue and Imagery in Conversational Discourse.

New York: Cambridge UP, 2007. Print.

---. Youre Wearing That? Understanding Mothers and

Daughters in Conversation. New York: Ballantine

Random. 2006. Print.


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Citing Periodical Print Publications

Authors Name

Title of Article (in quotation marks)

Name of the Periodical (italicized)

Series Number or Name

Volume Number

Issue Number (if available)

Date of Publication (year) Inclusive Page Numbers

Medium of Publication consulted

Supplementary Information (if relevant)


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Citing Periodical: contd.

Piper, Andrew. Rethinking the Print Object:

Goethe and the Book of Everything. CriticalInquiry121.1 (2006): 124-38. Print.

Journal Using Only Issue Numbers:

Kafka, Ben. The Demon of Writing:

Paperwork, Public Safety, and the Reign ofTerror. Representations 98 (2007): 1-24.

Print.


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Article in Newspaper or Magazine

Jeromack, Paul. This Once, a David of the

Art World Does Goliath a Favor. NewYorkTimes 13 July 2002, late ed. : B7+. Print.

Varadrajan, Siddharth. Maoists Deliver and

the Government Better Find a Smarter Way.

Hindu 24 August 2010, natl. ed.: 7+. Print.

Others: Abstract, Anonymous Article, Letter

to the Editor. Serialized Article, Special Issue


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CitingWeb Publications

Sometimes unlike print: reprinted works,

broadcasts/podcasts, live performances Multiple databases+ variety of interfaces

IMP to record: Date of Access & Publication

data

Where one work stops and another begins?

How do you define a website, for example?


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URL as supplementary info, not main

Name of the

author/compiler/editor/director/performer/narrator/translator Title of the Work (italicized if independent)

Title of Overall Website (italicized)

Version of Edition Used

Publisher or sponsor of the site

Date of Publication (day-month-year) Medium of Publication (web)

Date of Access (day-month-year)


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Eaves, Morris, Robert Essick and Joseph

Viscomi, eds. The William Blake Archive. Lib.Of Cong., 28 Sept. 2007. Web. 20 Nov.

2007. http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/

http://rpi.edu/web/writingcenter/wc_web/hand

outs/MLa_Style.pdf http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/7

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