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Introduction Introduction

MLA-Modern Language AssociationGuidelines for proper citation to avoid

plagiarism.Using proper in-text and end of text

citation is one of the essential skills of college writing.

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Altruism? Altruism?

Remember the fire and the teddy bear

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AgendaAgenda

Review GuidelinesDiscuss in-text and end of text citationPractice applying and recognizing MLA

GuidelinesPlay MLA Game for extra credit

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Overview Overview

Proper Citation ensures that you “give credit where credit is due” and that you fit into a community of writers.

Text

Cited

Page

ofEnd

Works

Citation

Attributive tag

Source

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VocabularyVocabulary MLA Citation: Proper use of quotation marks

and parenthetical information to indicate your use of another author’s words or ideas (AKA paraphrase).

In-Text Citation: Author’s last name and page number in parenthesis at the end of the sentence

End of Text Citation: Complete MLA entry on the Works Cited Page, arranged alphabetically by the authors’ last names.

Attributive Tag: Your words that introduce the quotation (e. g. Miner says “The fundamental belief…).

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MLA Citation: Two PartsMLA Citation: Two Parts

A) In-text Citation1) Author’s Last Name2) Page Number

B) End of Text Citation1) Author’s Name (Last Name, First Name)2) Title Information

• a) “Title of Article”• b) Title of Source

Book or Journal including editor (Ed.)

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MLA Citation: Part AMLA Citation: Part A

In-text Citation Author’s Name Page Number Attributive Tag

Example: Horace Miner claims that “the fundamental belief underlying the whole system appears to be that the human body is ugly and has a tendency towards debility and disease” (Miner 171).

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MLA Citation: Part BMLA Citation: Part B

End of Text Citation Author’s last name, First name. “Title of the article.” Title of

the source. Ed. Editor’s name. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Inclusive page numbers.

Example: Bambara, Toni, Cade. “The Lesson.” Reading and Writing with

Purpose. Ed. Miguel Powers. New York: McGraw-

Hill Primus, 2003. 12-19. Print.

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In-text Citation ReviewIn-text Citation Review

Two parts Author’s name Page number in parenthesis

Attributive tag (a. t.) Example:

While pretending to report about a primitive tribe called the “Nacerima,” Horace Miner describes the American culture as an “example of the extremes to which” humans can go (Miner 171).

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Round One: In-text Citation Round One: In-text Citation

5) Barbara Mellix explains that using “standard English to whites was our way of demonstrating that we knew their language and could use it.” (Mellix 289)

Incorrect: Period inside the quotation mark, not after the parenthetical citation

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Round One: In-text Citation Round One: In-text Citation

15) “I will have my serpent's tongue—my woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my poet’s voice,” explains Anzaldua as she asserts her continued independence (125).

Correct

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Round Two: End of Text CitationRound Two: End of Text Citation

Works CitedCarol Comfort. Breaking Boundaries.

Print.Incorrect: Author’s last name first and

lacks publication information

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Works CitedCarol Comfort. Breaking Boundaries.

Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000. Print.

Incorrect: Author’s last, name first. [Comfort, Carol.]

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Works Cited Anzaldua, Gloria. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue.”

Breaking Boundaries. Ed. Carol Comfort. Upper Saddle River, NJ: 2000. 119-130. Print.

Lester, James. Writing Research Papers: A Complete Guide. 3rd ed. New York Longman, 1999. Print.

Rodriguez, Richard. “Aria.” Breaking Boundaries. Ed. Carol Comfort. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000. 299-308. Print.

Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Ed. Linda Buckle and Paul Kelley. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997. Print.[Correct: Alphabetical by authors’ last names]

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Final RoundFinal Round

Make a correct Work Cited entry for Horace Miner’s “Body Ritual Among the Nacerima.” Each team member writes a version on a separate piece of paper.

Write one corrected version and all names on your final answer.

Miner Citation Information

Horace Miner. Annual Editions: Anthropology. 2000/2001. “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” Editor Elvio Angeloni Dushkin/McGraw-Hill 2000 Sluice Dock, Conneticut 171-173. Medium

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Final RoundFinal Round

Works CitedMiner, Horace. “Body Ritual Among the

Nacirema.” Annual Editions: Anthropology. 23rd ed. Ed. Elvio Angeloni. Sluice Dock, CT: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, 2000. 171-173. Print.

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Summary QuizSummary Quiz

What are the two parts of MLA Citation?When should you use MLA Citation?What is the difference between quotation

and paraphrase? How do you show the difference in your paper?

What questions do you have?

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Where to Get More InformationWhere to Get More Information

Writing Handbooks such as:Maimon, Elaine P. and Janice H. Peritz. A

Writer’s Resource: A Handbook for Writing and Research. Boston:

McGraw-Hill, 2003. Print.Fullerton College Library Home PageFullerton College Writing Center, Tutoring

Center and your instructor.