Book Citations
True or False: Works cited pages are found at the beginning of essays or papers.
False.
True or False: colons can be used to combine two incomplete sentences.
What citation information do online articles require that books do not?
website/sponsor name, URL, access date.
True or false: in-text citations occur within your own writing, not at the end of your paper.
Commas and colons.
True or False: Book titles should be put in quotation marks.
False. They should be put in italics.
Is this correct? Why or why not?
Suddenly she looked at me and said: "Where were you yesterday when the murder took place?"
No. The first part before the colon is not a complete sentence.
Why are there two dates listed in this entry?
Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical Theory. Purdue U, 28 Nov. 2003, www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/. Accessed 10 May 2006.
One is the publication date. The second is the date that the piece was accessed.
True or false. In text citations use the author's full name, followed by the page number.
False, they only use the author's last name.
Which kind of title goes in quotation marks? Book titles, or article titles?
Article titles.
Find the error
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban. New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 1999. Print.
Author's last name should come before first name.
Identify the incorrect use of the colon.
1) I have always had the same motto: hakuna matata.
2) There is something really exciting about this time of year: The holiday break is fast approaching.
3) There is only one way to fix this problem: call in for backup.
#2, there should not be a capital letter following the colon.
Find the error.
Lundman, Susan. How to Make Vegetarian Chili. eHow, August 2012. www.ehow.com/how_10727_make-vegetarian-chili.html. Accessed 6 July 2015.
The title of the article is not in quotation marks.
True or false. In text citations should go inside your quotation marks.
False. They come after you close your quotation, but before you put your final punctuation.
Find the error.
She responded, "I've never even seen Star Wars".
The period should go inside the quotation marks.
Find the error.
Kibuishi, Kazu. Amulet. 2012, Graphix.
Publisher should come before the date.
Does a colon need to be followed by an independent clause?
No. But it must be preceded by one.
Which of the following is incorrect, and why?
Bernstein, Mark. “10 Tips on Writing the Living Web.” A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites, alistapart.com/article/writeliving, 16 Aug. 2002. Accessed 4 May 2009.
Bernstein, Mark. “10 Tips on Writing the Living Web.” A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites, 16 Aug. 2002, alistapart.com/article/writeliving. Accessed 4 May 2009.
The first one, because the publication date should come before the URL.
Find the error.
She whispered to him, "Why do you think they called us here today?" (page 27, Malcom)
Author's last name should come before page number, and you don't need a comma or the word "page."
Are these both acceptable? Explain why or why not.
I loved what she said about the leaves changing colours: "It's like a rainbow erupting out of the sea of green."
I loved when she said, "It's like a rainbow erupting out of the sea of green."
Using this information, create a Works Cited entry.
A Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin was published in 1996 by Bantam Books in New York.
Martin, George R.R.. A Game of Thrones. New York, Bantam Books, 1996.
What could you do to fix this sentence?
There are lots of great extra curriculars to choose from, such as: basketball, the school musical, and student council.
Take out "such as," or rephrase to make an independent clause some other way.
Using this information, create a Works Cited entry.
On Sept. 25, 2014, Dr. Gerald Smith posted an article on WebMD called "Athlete's Foot - Topic Overview." You read this article on www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/tc/athletes-foot-topic-overview on January 4th, 2018.
Smith, Dr. Gerald. “Athlete's Foot - Topic Overview.” WebMD, 25 Sept. 2014, www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/tc/athletes-foot-topic-overview. Accessed 4 January 2018.
If you are quoting a second source (not the author of the article), whose name do you put in brackets?
The last name of whoever you are quoting.
How can you fix this to make it clearer?
I looked at Kayla and said, "How can you say something so silly like "I hate summer" when it's clearly the best season of all!"
Put the quotation within the quotation inside single quotation marks instead of double.
Ex: I looked at Kayla and said, "How can you say something so silly like 'I hate summer' when it's clearly the best season of all!"