Writing

Sample Works Cited page for Major 5 Essay

Major 5 Essay requires a separate Works Cited page naming at least the three primary sources (stories) as seen in the example below. It is recommended that students use these entries as presented below for the sake of brevity.

When you are quoting from each of the assigned stories in your essay, you would create a “Works Cited” page, or bibliography, like the one below. If you paraphrased or quoted from another source, for example, another scholar’s article, you would also list it as an entry with that author’s name according to the MLA 8 guidelines. You may need to review the “MLA 8” Lessons in Unit Three or to consult Purdue OWL to correctly compose a bibliographic entry for your borrowed material in secondary sources. (Secondary sources are articles, blogs, etc.,by other writers that discuss the story. The three stories themselves are primary sources and should be written according to the sample “Works Cited” page below.)

The parenthetic citation might look like this for a quote from page 7 of the Wolfe story:

Alluding to an old nursery rhyme in which the singer learns to count down from the quantity of ten, Wolfe refers to the pilots as the “ten little Indians” (7).

-OR-

The narrator calls the dwindling squadron of test pilots the “ten little Indians” (Wolfe 7).

Either way, it is important to make sure that the author and page number are cited.

The first use of a direct quote or paraphrase from the stories should include the author’s name and the relevant page number. Afterward, as long as the quote and context are clearly from the same source, it may be appropriate to use just the page number. If the author’s name is used in the sentence itself (as in the first example above), then it is incorrect to repeat it in the parentheses.

The assignment is for an original analysis by the student on the assigned topic. The use of other scholars’ ideas or words is not expected or required, but if a student uses the ideas or words of a secondary source (someone else’s writing or research), then that source must be included in the bibliography (Works Cited). Every essay for the Major 5 Essay assignment should have these following entries because every essay topic requires the student to originally write on all three stories.

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Works Cited

Baldwin, James. “Sonny’s Blues,” Stancliff’s Class Notes, 2021.

Tan, Amy. “Two Kinds,” Stancliff’s Class Notes, 2021.

Wolfe, Tom. “The Angels,” Stancliff’s Class Notes, 2021.