Play: women and honor : some notes on lying

Remember: The first time you quote a text, make sure to include the author’s last name in the sentence OR the citation:

The narrator in Aimee Bender’s story is so stupid. She’s mean when she calls other people “stupid Neanderthals” (Bender 8).

From that point forward, as long as you’re quoting the same source then you don’t need to repeat the author’s last name in the sentence or the citation:

The narrator in Aimee Bender’s “Off” is so stupid. One example of when she’s mean is when she calls other people “stupid Neanderthals,” thus making herself feel better (Bender 8). Another example of when she’s mean is when she says “everyone wears the same stupid jeans” (9). She also says, “I hate animals,” and anyone who hates animals has to be a mean person (10).

As soon as you quote a different source, then you have to repeat the process all over again:

The narrator from “Emergency” is also really mean. He shows no remorse when he “squishes nine baby bunnies” (Johnson 11).

For the PDFs I send out, you only have to include the author’s last name, the author’s first name, and the title of the piece. For example:

Works Cited

Bender, Aimee. “Off.”

Johnson, Denis. “Emergency.”

Note that the Works Cited always goes in alphabetical order by author’s last name.

“Quotation marks” = short pieces = short stories, individual essays, poems, songs, etc.

Italics or underline = long pieces = short story collections, essay collections, poetry collections, albums, etc.

So:

“Single Ladies”

vs.

I Am… Sasha Fierce

The song title goes in quotation marks, but the album is in italics.