Final Thoughts: Once students become familiar with the core elements that should be included in each entry in the Works Cited list, they will be able to create documentation for any type of source. While the MLA handbook and Purdue OWL still include helpful examples students may use as guidelines, they will not need to consult these sources every time they need to figure out how to cite a source they have never used before! So long as one has included each element in the proper order and used consistent punctuation, one should be able to create a Work(s) Cited entry for any source! Making MLA Parenthetical Citations When writers take ideas and/or words from any source, they must indicate their use of that source to their readers and/or listeners. Therefore, writers must include a citation after each idea or direct quotation taken from a source. What to Put in the Parenthetical Give the last name and the page number. author’s The in-text citations (also called parenthetical notations) will look like this: (Hawthorne 54-5). use the first item that does appear in the Works Cited entry, If there is no author, and format it in the same way it is in the Works Cited (it will probably either have quotation marks around it or it will be italicized). For example, you may put the title of an article if there is no author listed. If more than one of the Works Cited entries starts with the same word, then choose what to put in the parenthetical by finding the first item of each entry that is different from the other(s). For example, if there are two works by the same author, you would use the title of the works rather than the last name. author’s If there is no page number, you do not need to put anything after the author name (or title). Paraphrased Material (When It’s “In Your Own Words”) If a writer talks about something that happened the novel, but he or she is putting it
Final Thoughts: Once students become familiar with the core elements that should be included in each entry in the Works Cited list, they will be able to create documentation for any type of source. While the MLA handbook and Purdue OWL still include helpful examples students may use as guidelines, they will not need to consult these sources every time they need to figure out how to cite a source they have never used before! So long as one has included each element in the proper order and used consistent punctuation, one should be able to create a Work(s) Cited entry for any source! Making MLA Parenthetical Citations When writers take ideas and/or words from any source, they must indicate their use of that source to their readers and/or listeners. Therefore, writers must include a citation after each idea or direct quotation taken from a source. What to Put in the Parenthetical Give the author’s last name and the page number. The in-text citations (also called parenthetical notations) will look like this: (Hawthorne 54-5). If there is no author, use the first item that does appear in the Works Cited entry, and format it in the same way it is in the Works Cited (it will probably either have quotation marks around it or it will be italicized). For example, you may put the title of an article if there is no author listed. If more than one of the Works Cited entries starts with the same word, then choose what to put in the parenthetical by finding the first item of each entry that is different from the other(s). For example, if there are two works by the same author, you would use the title of the works rather than the author’s last name. If there is no page number, you do not need to put anything after the author name (or title). Paraphrased Material (When It’s “In Your Own Words”) If a writer talks about something that happened the novel, but he or she is putting it
english-essentials-packet-3.docx