Grapple with Some Examples
I'm Excited by Works Cited
Intense? No, in-text!
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What is incorrect about the following entry:
Michelle Baik “6 Ways Campuses Are Helping Students De-Stress.” The California State University, 16 Feb. 2017, https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/6-Ways-Campuses-Are-Helping-Students-De-Stress.aspx
Author name—should be this:
Baik, Michelle. “6 Ways Campuses Are Helping Students De-Stress.” The California State University, 16 Feb. 2017, https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/6-Ways-Campuses-Are-Helping-Students-De-Stress.aspx
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True or false: A works cited page is a separate page from your essay.
True! Your works cited page gets its own page—although some professors will not count it towards your overall page count.
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Oh no, the author from this article is missing, instead of using their name I will just use _____ for the in-text citations!
The title of the article in quotations wrapped in parentheses.
"How to Teach Yourself Guitar." eHow, Demand Media, www.ehow.com/how_5298173_teach-yourself-guitar.html. Accessed 24 June 2016.
("How to Teach")
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What is wrong with this entry:
Beck, Ann R., Verticchio, Heidi, Seeman, Scott, Milliken, Emma, and Heidi Schabb “A Mindfulness Practice for Communication Sciences and Disorders Undergraduate and Speech-Language Pathology Graduate Students: Effects on Stress, Self-Compassion, and Perfectionism.” American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology,
More than three authors can simply be the first author alphabetically followed by et al.
Beck, Ann R., et al. “A Mindfulness Practice for Communication Sciences and Disorders Undergraduate and Speech-Language Pathology Graduate Students: Effects on Stress, Self-Compassion, and Perfectionism.” American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology,
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This type of indent is used for each of your entries in a works cited page.
Hanging indent. 
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If you have the author for online materials where there is no page number, your in-text citation simply uses ____.
The author's last name.
Williamson, Jennifer. "Canada: Business: Attire." Global Road Warrior, World Trade Press, 2018, www.globalroadwarrior/com/#mode=country®ionId=27&uri=country-content&nid=13.08&key=country-attire. Accessed 17 July 2016.
In-text citation would be (Williamson)
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What is wrong with this citation?
Britton, Willoughby B. “Can Mindfulness Be Too Much of a Good Thing? The Value of a Middle Way.” vol. 28, 2019, pp. 159–65, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2018.12.011.
It is missing its source! Here is a correct example
Britton, Willoughby B. “Can Mindfulness Be Too Much of a Good Thing? The Value of a Middle Way.” Current Opinion in Psychology, vol. 28, 2019, pp. 159–65, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2018.12.011.
Note: the italics!
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Your works cited page should be in ______ order.
Alphabetical order
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When citing a specific page that from a text with two authors, your in-text citation should use what?
Author's Last Name and Author's Last Name Page Number. Authors' last names are in alphabetical order.
Example: (Case and Driscoll 57)
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What is wrong with this entry?
Tan, (Rae) Yunzi, and Carol Molinari. “Being Mindful May Not Make You a Team Player: Does Meditation Help or Hurt Online Group Work?” The Journal of Educators Online, vol. 14, no. 2, 2017, https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Being+Mindful+May+Not+Make+You+a+Team+Player%3A+Does+Meditation+Help+or+Hurt+Online+Group+Work%3F&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Correct answer: the location is all messed up—there's no DOI number, instead it is just a Google search URL and that won't do.
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The Works Cited page is _____ spaced.
Double spaced.
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When citing information from a text has three or more authors, what should your in-text citation use?
First Author's Last Name et al. Page Number
Example: (Case et al. 57)
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When using a Tweet from Twitter, what information do you need for your works cited entry?
Screen Name [@handle]. Description of image. Name of Social Media Site, Day Month Year of Tweet, Time of post, URL.
Kasper Nymann [@polarpx]. Photograph of Silkie chicken in grass. Twitter, 5 May 2020, 11:10 a.m., https://twitter.com/polarpx/status/1257734510730412034?s=21.
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Two-part question: does your Works Cited page get a title and if so, which side of the page is it on (left, center, or right)?
Add Works Cited to the center of the page.
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It's all Latin to me: et al. is the abbreviation of this Latin term.
It means "and others."