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MLA KEY TERMS Cite: V – to quote from an author as evidence Citation: N – quotation form of a reference Citing: V – process quoting a reference Reference: N – Mention of a source (i. e citation)

MLA Format Reference: pgs R 31 -R 32 Modern Library Association USE Purpose English (Discipline) Anytime you give a textual example Research essay Cite sources 1. In the document (Ex: Steinbeck 7) - no comma - direct quote: use quotation marks – your period goes inside the quotation marks - summary: No quotations 2. End of the doc: Works-Cited List (Title)

In Doc. Citations I. D. ’s source Parenthesis Outside of quote I. D. ’s Author last name I. D. ’s page # Long quote is separated from rest of text in another paragraph Ex: (Steinbeck 7)

Work Cited List Title: Works Cited List There are no bullet points Page is single spaced Indent after the first line Alphabetize all citations Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men. London: Penguin Group, 1937.

Works Cited List Carroll, Joyce A. , et al. Prentice Hall Literature: Timless Voices, Timeless Themes. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc. , 2002.

MLA Quiz 1. What is MLA abbreviated for? 2. List the two ways to cite sources. 3. Yesterday you interviewed Ms. Brooks – Write the citation for a works cited page. 4. What is wrong with this internet citation? Ouchi High School. 10 Dec. 1937 <http: //www. ouchihs. org. >

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. MLA Qz T/F: MLA is an abbreviation for Modern Language Association What is the major purpose for using the MLA format? How is the Works Cited List organized? If you were citing a text in your textbook which citation would you use? “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string” (Emerson, 148). a. Correct b. Wrong

MLA – Works Cited List - Activity On a sheet of paper, create a Works Cited List from the sources below. Make any necessary corrections. Single work from an antholgy “Teaching Language to an Ape, ” by Ann James Premack and David Premack, Scientific American, October 1972, pp. 9293. Newspaper “School History Books, Striving to Please All, Are Criticized as Bland, ” The Wall Street Journal, Vol. 64, No. 46 (September 5, 1979), p. A 8. John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1955), p. 100 John Searle, “What Is a Speech Act? ” in Language and Social Context, ed. Pier Giglioli (New York: Penguin Books, 1972).