Bell 1
Homework 2 MLA Assignments
[First and Last Name]
[Professor’s Name]
[Course Number]
[Day Month Year]
[Title; Capitalize all Main Words; Do Not Bold, Underline or Italicize]
[Introduction and Thesis] This template is formatted properly according to MLA Style. It contains the correct order, placement, margins, fonts, headings, etc. Use this document like a form and just fill in your information in the appropriate places.
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[Supporting Paragraphs] Remember, you need to cite all information in your paper that originated from outside sources. To do this properly according to MLA Style format, you will need to include both in text citation and a Works Cited list. In text citation is a brief parenthetical citation that comes directly after a quote or paraphrased information. The general in text citation format is: (Author’s Lastname Page#). Here is an example that paraphrases the conclusion of a research study: Research show that 30% of teenagers prefer green grapes (Smith 89). Another way to format this statement: Smith conducted a study which shows that 30% of teenagers select green grapes over any other color of grape (89). Never repeat the author’s last name in a sentence and then again in the citation. Notice the author’s last name was not included in the in text citation of the previous example. Would you prefer to use a direct quote instead? Follow this format: Smith concludes in his study, “After analyzing the preferences of 570 teenagers in the United we have determined that 29.8% selected green grapes over other varieties” (89).
[Conclusion]
Works Cited
(Books)
Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. City of Publication, Publisher, Publication Date.
Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. MacMurray, 1999.
Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Allyn and Bacon, 2000.
*Note: the City of Publication should only be used if the book was published before 1900, if the publisher has offices in more than one country, or if the publisher is unknown in North America.
(Scholarly Journal Articles)
Author(s). “Title of Article.” Title of Journal, Volume, Issue, Year, pages.
Bagchi, Alaknanda. “Conflicting Nationalisms: The Voice of the Subaltern in Mahasweta Devi’s Bashai Tudu.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, vol. 15, no. 1, 1996, pp. 41-50.
Duvall, John N. “The (Super)Marketplace of Images: Television as Unmediated Mediation in DeLillo’s White Noise.” Arizona Quarterly, vol. 50, no. 3, 1994, pp. 127-53.
(Electronic Sources)
Author. “Title.” Title of container (self contained if book), Other contributors (translators or editors), Version (edition), Number (vol. and/or no.), Publisher, Publication Date, Location (pages, paragraphs and/or URL, DOI or permalink). 2nd container’s title, Other contributors, Version, Number, Publisher, Publication date, Location, Date of Access (if applicable).
The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U, 2008, owl.english.purdue.edu/owl. Accessed 23 Apr. 2008.
Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical Theory. Purdue U, 28 Nov. 2003, www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/. Accessed 10 May 2006.
Notes For Works Cited:
Alphabetize entries by the first word in the citation
For Medium of Publication, type either Web (accessed online) or Print (accessed the physical copy). If it is Web include the date you accessed the information after the word Web.
If a source has no publication date use the abbreviation n.d. in place of the date
If there is no author, skip it and start with the title of the article, webpage or book. The intext citation for a source without an author is: (“Article/Book/Page Title” pg#). Abbreviate the title to 2-3 words in your intext citation.
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