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MLA

This tutorial covers:

Writing Center - Yakima Valley Community College

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?


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)

The Writing Center - Yakima Valley Community College

Sample 1st Page

Why use MLA?


Reason #2: Avoiding plagiarism The guidelines for citing and documenting

sources help you to avoid

plagiarism.

2. Avoiding Plagiarism


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


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


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


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


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?


“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


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:


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:


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


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


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


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



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.

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/05/



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


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


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


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

The Writing Center - Yakima Valley Community College

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


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.