Works Cited Components
Author's Last Name, First Name.
What is the first part of a works cited entry?
Plagiarism
What is the main thing writers hope to avoid by citing their sources?
Date work was originally published and Date work was accessed online
What are the two dates that must be included in an MLA Works Cited entry?
These articles can be written for general or specialized audiences and of medium length. (Examples: Time, US News and World Report and Cosmopolitan)
Article from a magazine
In Text Citations
What does the writer insert into his paper to document he is using information from another source?
Title of article
What follows the author's name?
Credibility
What is established when a student uses MLA Style consistently and honesty?
The period goes after the parenthesis.
Where does the writer place the period when using in-text citations?
Publication Name
(This can be journal, news, or magazine article.)
What follows the article's title?
Useful to the Reader
What is one of the main goals for MLA citations?
These articles report daily happenings and are generally short (Examples: The Robesonian, The New York Times).
Article from a news source (news paper)
The writer needs the author's last name and page number.
What two elements does the writer need in an in text citation?
Publication Title, date, and volume and issue number if the article has one
What is publication information?
Being prepared for all writing that will be done in college classes
Why are we learning MLA now?
Any location print or online where you get information, data, facts, or explanations that you plan to cite in a paper
What is a source?
Use the first initial of the author's name in the in text citation when this happens.
What do we do when there are 2 authors with same last name?
The web address where the publication where the article can be accessed online.
What is the url?
Further Research
What is another reason MLA is useful?
A repository of information provided by our Library that allows you to access sources (some of these sources cannot be accessed over the general Internet)
What is a database?
The writer will use one or more words from the source's title instead of author's name
What does the writer do for in text citations when there isn't an author?