Working on MLA Details

Thinkwrite: 

Do you consider yourself to be a detail-oriented person? You are here at school to prepare for doing a job. (What job is that?) How detail-oriented will you have to be to do that job, do you think?  What are some ways to become MORE detail-oriented?


I hand out another example of student writing. It has a number of problems with its citation. Read it and answer these questions in your daybook:

1. . Underline every in-text citation you see as you read. How many are there?

2. When you read an in-text citation, check to see if it clearly leads to a source in the Works Cited list. List any problems you find.

3. Are there items on the Works Cited list that were NOT used in the paper? List them.

4. This paper is old, so it follows MLA 6. What major difference can you find between MLA 6 and MLA 7?

5. If you know the page number where information occurred, you should include that in an in-text citation. Please put a star next to each in-text citation in "My Friend Michelle" that SHOULD have included a page number in parentheses. How many are there? [Hint: use the bibliography to help decide if there were page numbers in the source.]

After you finish this, use the time to work on revising your Problem/ Solution paper. Make correct in-text citations, and use EasyBib to work on your works cited page. REMEMBER you MUST have cited information from a database source in this article.

Homework:

1. Get your paper ready for Turnitin tomorrow, to check your paraphrasing and quoting of sources.

2. The final paper is due Friday. You CAN turn it in on Monday, but then you will HAVE to take the final (whatever your page count might be on Friday).

3. Any other papers that are owed me MUST be turned in by Friday of this week in order to get credit.

4. Daybooks due tomorrow.

5. TWFTD: synonymous in OED.

MLA Details

You hand in Solo Paper #3 with rubric.

We review what will be required for your Problem/ Solution with Sources paper.

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

Download the paper. Read the whole thing.


Highlight ALL the in-text citations in the paper with yellow.

Then answer the questions below IN YOUR DAYBOOK:

1. How many times was a source quoted 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. Time to work on your draft in class tomorrow. The only draft of this paper is due Thursday. You'll post it in Turninit to check your use of sources.

3. TWFTD: your choice from a source for your paper.

Problem/ Solution with MLA Citation

I return your Problem/ Solution papers.

Thinkwrite: Look over my comments on the returned paper. Based on those comments and your own thoughts about the paper, what are some changes you need to work on before this Friday?

You will revise this paper. Make changes based on my comments. Also, add information from a database source, and any other sources that pass the CRAAP test.

I hand out the assignment sheet and grading rubric for this last paper.

Homework:

1. Solo Paper #3 is due tomorrow.

2. TWFTD:  citation in OED