MLA n MLA has changed There are new

MLA n MLA has changed! There are new rules since 2009. For the latest rules, go to OWL at Purdue (type in OWL at Purdue into a search engine and click on OWL at Purdue, then MLA 2009. OR go to Mrs. Sokol’s website and click on links and click on the MLA/OWL link).

Creating a Works Cited/ In-text Citation using Word 2007 n You can also create a works cited page using Microsoft Office 2007. – Open the document. – Click on references, – go to the insert citation box. – Make sure that the format is set to MLA – Click on insert citation – Click on add new source – Choose what type of source you are using (internet, book, etc) – Fill in the information fields – Click okay – This has created your 1 st in text citation (to edit you can right click) – To Create a Works Cited click on Bibliography – Then click on Works cited, it should automatically appear for you.

Underlined Titles n n n Book Titles: The Great Gatsby Play titles: Fences- Think of a stage Long Poems Published as Books: Leaves of Grass Pamphlets: New Jersey Drive Manual Periodicals( Newspapers, magazines, & journals): Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine Films, i. e. Movies: It’s a Wonderful Life Radio & Television Programs: Friends CDs, Audiocassettes, Record Albums: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band ( applies to all 3) Ballets, Operas, and other long Musical numbers: The Nut. Cracker – Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique Paintings, works of sculpture: Thomas Cole’s The Oxbow Ships, aircraft, spacecraft: USS Arizona (ship), Spirit of St. Louis (aircraft), Challenger (spacecraft)

“Titles in Quotation Marks” n n n n “Names of Articles”: “Rise in Aid to Education Proposed” ( newspaper article) “Essays”: “The Fiction of Langston Hughes” (essay in a book) “Short Stories”: “Rip Van Winkle” “Short Poems”: “The Cross of Snow” “Chapters of Books”: “The American Economy before the Civil War” (chapter in a book) “Individual Episodes of T. V. & Radio programs”: “The Trouble with Tribbles” (episode of Star Trek) “Short Musical compositions (e. g. songs): “Hard Days Night” Unpublished works, such as lectures and speeches: “Preparing for a Successful Interview” (lecture)

Long Quotation n Long quotation—If the quotation runs more than four lines on your paper, set it off by beginning a new line and indenting ten spaces or tabbing in twice from the left margin. Introduce the passage with a colon. Do not use quotation marks and do double space. However, some teachers prefer that you single space the quote ( I DO, so does Mrs. Dilbeck)

Example of Long Quote Like Cinderella, Jane Eyre must endure the cruelty of siblings who benefit from financial resources that are rightfully hers. Unlike her fairytale counterpart, however, she fights back: I had indeed levelled at that prominent feature as hard a blow as my knuckles could inflict; and when I saw that either that or my look daunted him, I had the greatest inclination to follow up my advantage to purpose; but he was already with his mama. I heard him in a blubbering tone commence the tale of how “that nasty Jane Eyre” had flown at him like a mad cat. . . (Bronte 27; bk. 1, ch. 4) (Courtesy of Dr. Glockhamer)

POEMS Poem titles should be in “Quotations” n If you quote part or all of a single line of a verse that does not require special emphasis, put it in quotation marks within your text. You may also incorporate two or three lines in this way using a slash with a space on each side ( / ) to separate them. – Examples: § Bradstreet frames each poem with a sense of mortality: “All things within this fading world hath end” (1). § Reflecting on the “incident” in Baltimore, Cullen concludes, “Of all the things that happened there / That’s all that I remember” (11 -12). n

Poems Continued n Verse quotations of more than three lines should begin on a new line. Unless the quotation involves unusual spacing, indent each line one inch ( two tab keys) from the left margin and double space between lines, adding no quotation marks that do not appear in the original. A parenthetical reference for a verse quotation set off from the text follows the last line of the quotation ( as in quotation prose); a parenthetical reference that will not fit on the line should appear on a new line, flush with the right margin of the page.

Poems continued n Example of 3 or more lines – Elizabeth Bishop’s “In the Waiting Room “ is rich in evocative detail: It was winter. It got dark Early. The waiting room Was full of grown –up people, arctics and overcoats, Lamps and magazines. (6 -10)

Poems Continued n 2 nd Example of 3 or more lines – E. E. Cummings concludes the poem with this vivid description of a carefree scene, reinforced by the carefree form of the lines themselves: It’s spring and the goat-footed balloon. Man whistles far and wee (16 -24)

In-Text Citation n In-Text citations should match the works cited page. n The in-text citation can be done of two ways: Author’s name in text or author’s name in reference.

Author’s name in Text & Reference Example: Text: F. Scott Fitzgerald used ”…a single green light, minute and far away…” ( 26) to represent Gatsby’s longing for Daisy. OR Reference: The use of ”…a single green light, minute and far away…” ( Fitzgerald 26) to represent Gatsby’s longing for Daisy is a symbol that is still used to today to also represent the corruption of the American Dream. n

Different Novel Versions n. A novel—Because novels are available in different editions, what appears, for example, on page 26 in my edition of The Great Gatsby is not necessarily what appears on yours. Hence, in the internal documentation after the author and page number add a semicolon and then the book and chapter. Ex. (Fitzgerald 26; bk. 1, ch. 1). (Courtesy of Dr. Glockhamer)

Works Cited n Works Cited should always be ABC order n Use author’s last name or the first major word of the title to alphabetize n Do not number entries or have bullet points n Double space entries

Works Cited Example Anderson, Robert, ed. , et. al. Elements of Literature: Literature of the United States. 5 th ed. United States: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1993. Dickinson, Emily. “Heart! we will forget him!” Elements of Literature: Literature of the United States. Ed. Anderson, Robert, et. al. 5 th ed. United States: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1993.