MLA Details

I am sick today. You do not have to attend class, but you are responsible for the following work in Moodle and your day book.

To practice how in-text citations work with a bibliography, you'll read an example paper in Moodle.

1. Go to the highlighted section of our class in Moodle.

2. Click on "Till Death Do Us Part" example paper. Download the paper.

3. Read the whole thing.

4. Highlight ALL the in-text citations in the paper with yellow. (You do not have to save this paper; highlighting will help you answer the questions.)

Then answer the questions below IN YOUR DAYBOOK:

1. How many quotes  of any source do you find in this paper?

2. How many times was a source paraphrased?

3.  Copy down a parenthetical citation (everything inside the parentheses) that uses an author’s last name.

4.  Copy down a parenthetical citation that uses the title of an article.

5.  Look at the Works Cited list on page 5.  How many of these sources are from the internet? 

How many are print?

6. Give a shortened version of the title of the oldest source she used.

 7.  Do you think Mother Jones is a book or a magazine? 

                     How can you tell by looking at the Works Cited citation?

8.  When I look at the Works Cited page, I can tell when this student was working on researching her paper.  Look carefully.  What is the date range when she was looking up information?

 9.  This quote is cited in the paper like this:

                      Sadly, “twenty-five percent of all women who are beaten are pregnant” (Prah).

           Which of these, A or B, is also correct? 

A.   Pamela Prah writes that “twenty-five percent of all women who are beaten are pregnant” (Prah). 

B.    Pamela Prah writes that “twenty-five percent of all women who are beaten are pregnant.”

Homework:

1. Finish this daybook activity.

2. Work on Solo Paper #3. The only version of this paper is due Monday. You'll post it in Turnitin when you hand it in to check your use of paraphrasing.

3. TWFTD: coercion in OED.