Quoting, Citing, Documenting Homework
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quoting_citing_and_documenting_instructions.docxFor this assignment, you will revisit Stephen King's "Why We Crave Horror Movies"
Complete the following steps:
1) after viewing the tutorial on MLA format of papers (see Week Two Reading above)(see below ), create a properly formatted MLA document
2) select a short (one sentence) interesting, noteworthy, or important part of the King essay, write an introductory statement, and properly quote that part of the essay. Create correct parenthetical citation for your quote. This material should be on page 1 of your manuscript.
3) select a longer (four lines or more) interesting, noteworthy, or important part of the essay, write an introductory statement, and then create a properly formatted block quote for that part of the essay. Create correct parenthetical citation for your block quote. This material should also be on page 1 of your manuscript.
4) create a Works Cited page for your manuscript. This should be on page 2 of your manuscript.
MLA Style
The Modern Language Association (MLA) has been using the parenthetical style of documentation since it was founded in 1883 (Winkler & McCuenMetherell, 2008, p. 143). In this style, Arabic numerals are used, the letter p. or pp. for page numbers is omitted, line or lines is used to note lines of text, and the bibliography is headedWorks Cited.
The MLA style permits a shorthand method for identifying in your paper the author and page number of the work if you are using only one book by that author. Because there is less concern in the field of humanities for the currency of references, the date is usually omitted in the intext citation. For example, to cite Lauter’s book within the body of your paper, you might include a citation that looks like this.
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Example of a Citation Using MLA Style Many readers forget about Hawthorne’s contemporary female writers who were laying the groundwork for our modern romance fiction. One authority states that, while Hawthorne, drawn to the literary allegories and symbols, wrote about the darker side of human experiences in his romances, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alice Cary, and Elizabeth Drew Stoddard composed their “domestic” fiction—engaging narratives about marriage, love, jealousy, family, and social interactions (Lauter 2110). |
When the readers of your paper go to your bibliography, they find the full reference to Paul Lauter’s essay. The entries here are in alphabetical order using the author’s last name, are double-spaced, and have a flush and hanging or hanging indent in the second and subsequent lines. We’ve added three references to show you how the MLA bibliography style looks.
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Example of a Bibliography in MLA Style Works Cited Lauter, Paul. “The Flowering of Narrative.” The Heath Anthology of American Literature. 2nd ed. Ed. Paul Lauter, et al. Vol. 1. Lexington: Heath, 1994. 2110–12. Print. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2009. Print. Shehan, Constance L., and Amanda B. Moras. “Deconstructing Laundry: Gendered Technologies and the Reluctant Redesign of Household Labor.” Michigan Family Review 11 (2006): 39–54. Web. 15 June 2011. |
