ENGLISH LONG PAPER ASSIGNMENT

Reminders about source use:

1. Do NOT use quotations to begin or end paragraphs in the body of a paper

· Topic sentences should be in your words (not quotes)

· Quotes should be followed up with commentary (see below)

2. Introduce your sources

3. Cite your sources

4. Explain/Interpret/Comment On your sources (do not assume that they speak for themselves)

MLA Basics: 8th edition

For more detailed information, see The MLA Handbook For Writers of Research Papers and/or

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01 /

http:// www.lib.campbell.edu/research/refworks

You need to provide citations whenever you quote, paraphrase, or summarize a source.

The MLA System has two components: In-text citations keyed to Works Cited Page

In-text citations

· Standard for prose: Author and page number(s) are identified after text (omit author if identified in sentence)

· Winthrop warns Massachusetts Bay Colony settlers not to “worship other gods, our pleasures or our profits, and serve them” (189).

· Poetry: Author and line number(s) are identified after text (omit author if identified in sentence)

· The speaker of “The Prologue” claims that “this maxim’s most sure: / a weak or wounded brain admits no cure” (Bradstreet ll. 23-24).

· If you cite more than one work by one author, use a shortened form of the title from which the citation is drawn.

· Smith writes that “documentation is easy” (Writing 32).

· Smith writes that “MLA is the simplest of the documentation styles” (Documentation 51).

· Online source—use paragraph numbers:

· Smith writes that “documentation is easy” (par. 3).

· Online sources with no author listed are NOT recommended, but if you use them, use a shortened form of the article title, NOT the URL

· One writer says that “documentation is easy” (“MLA advice”)

Works Cited Page

· Appears at the end of the paper on a new page (complete with page numbers)

· Center the words Works Cited an inch from the top of the page

· Begin each entry flush with left margin

· If entry runs more than a line, indent subsequent lines by ½ inch (use hanging indent option in Microsoft Word, located under FormatParagraph)

· In other words, Works Cited entries are NOT indented like paragraphs (just the opposite)

· Double-space everything.

· Put items in alphabetical order by authors’ last names

· Do not number entries.

Common Works Cited Entries

Book

Author. Title of source (Book Title). Other contributors (translators, editors if appropriate), Version (edition if other than the first), Publisher, Publication date.

Foster, Thomas. How To Read Literature Like A Professor. Quill/HarperCollins, 2003.

eBook

Author. Title of source (Ebook Title). Other contributors (translators, editors if appropriate), Version (edition if other than the first), Publisher, Publication date. Title of container (who produced the ebook), Location (permalink or doi). Date of access.

Blum, Edward J. W.E.B. Du Bois, American Prophet, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013, Proquest ebrary, http://site.ebrary.com.proxy.campbell.edu/lib/campbellu/reader.action? docID=10748588. Accessed 8 Sept 2020.

Selection in an Edited Book/Anthology

Author. Title of source (“Story or Poem Title.”) Title of container (Book), Other contributors (translators, editors if appropriate), Version (edition if other than the first), Publisher, Publication date, Location (page range).

Valmiki. The Ramayana of Valmiki. The Norton Anthology of World Literature. Translated by Swami Venkatesananda, Edited by Martin Puchner, 4th Shorter Edition, W.W. Norton, 2019. 635-669.

Journal Article accessed through online database

Author. Title of source (“Article Title.”) Title of container (Journal Title), Number (vol., no.), Publication date, Location (page numbers). Title of container (Database). Location (permalink or doi). Date of Access.

Gibson, Donald B. “Strategies and Revisions of Self-Representation in Booker T. Washington's Autobiographies.” American Quarterly, vol. 45, no. 3, 1993, pp. 370–393. JSTOR www.jstor.org/stable/2713239. Accessed 8 Sept 2020.

Online Professional or Personal Site

Author. Title of source (“Article Title.”) Title of container (Website Title), Publisher, Publication date, Location (URL). Date of Access.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. “The Path Forward: Improving Opportunities for African-American Students.” U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, 10 December 2015, https://www.uschamberfoundation.org/reports/path-forward-improving-opportunities-african-american-students. Accessed 8 Sept 2020.