ENGLISH B 53 MLA formatting Works Cited Page

ENGLISH B 53 MLA formatting: Works Cited Page

THE WORKS CITED PAGE • The Works Cited page should direct readers to your sources. • It contains all of the material not included in in-text citations that readers would need to know in order to find the source themselves. • Each works cited entry is formatted by type of source. For example, books are formatted differently from newspaper articles, etc.

YOUR RHETORICAL PRECIS • For your third rhetorical precis, I am going to ask you to include a Works Cited entry for the article. • Because the reading appears in your textbook, we are considering it a work in an anthology.

AUTHOR • The first piece of information in your works cited entry should be the author’s first and last name. • In MLA formatting, we reverse the order of the names, so you’ll begin with the last name, and then give the first name. • It should look like this: • Last name, first name. • Cullington, Michaela.

ARTICLE TITLE • The next piece of information you should include in your citation is the title of the article in quotation mark. It should look like this: • “Article Title. ” • “Does Texting Affect Writing? ” • Don’t forget to capitalize each word in the title and include the question mark in the quotation marks.

BOOK TITLE • Next, include the book title, italicized. • It should look like this: • Title of Book, • They Say I Say with Readings 3 rd edition, • To indicate italics on your handwritten papers, put a squiggly line under what goes in italics.

EDITORS • Next we need to include the names of the editors who edited the anthology. These are the textbook authors, since they collected and arranged the readings. • It shoud look like this: • Edited by Editor’s Name(s), • Edited by Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russel Durst,

PUBLISHER • Next we need to include the name of the publishing company that published the book. • You should be able to find this information on the book spine or inside cover page. • It shoud look like this: • Publisher Name, • Norton,

YEAR OF PUBLICATION • Next you should include the year of publication. • Include the most recent year given. • It should look like this: • Year of publication, • 2015,

PAGE NUMBERS • The last piece of information you need to include is the start and end page of the article in the anthology. • It should look like this • pp. start page-end page. • pp. 361 -72. • Don’t forget to put a period at the end of the entry.

PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER • Here’s the formula you should use for your works cited entry: • Last name, first name. “Article Title. ” Book Title, Edited by Editor’s Name(s), Publisher, Year, pp. start page-end page. • Cullington, Michaela. “Does Texting Affect Writing. ” They Say I Say with Readings 3 rd edition, Edited by Gereald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russel Durst, Norton, 2015, pp. 361 -72. • The entry should be double spaced, and second (and subsequent) lines of the citation should be indented.

RESOURCES • MLA updated in 2016. • Since manuals are expensive (and often not user-friendly) we’ll be using a free online resource to help you with formatting called Purdue OWL.