Day 6. MLA ppt 5 paragraph essay ppt

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1 Day 5: Research / Organize your facts Highlight what facts you want to use in each body paragraph in a different color. Example: paragraph one facts yellow, paragraph two facts blue, paragraph three facts pink. NO I do NOT care what colors you use.

2 Day 6 MLA ppt 5 paragraph essay ppt

3 MLA Format Fred Meijer Center for Writing and Michigan Authors DEV Building C, Student Study Area (Pew Campus) LOH 120 (Allendale Campus)

4 The Format of the Paper n Use Times New Roman font n Font size should be 12 point n Print on one side of the paper only

5 Format (continued) MARGINS: Except for page numbers, 1 inch margins all around Indent the first line of each paragraph ½ inch

6 Format (continued ) n SPACING: n Double- space throughout, including quota:ons and works cited! No extra spacing required.

7 Format (continued) n HEADING AND TITLE: n NO TITLE PAGE in MLA format!

8 When to Give Your Source You must acknowledge in your paper the source of A direct quotation A statistic An idea Someone else s opinion Concrete facts not considered common knowledge Information not commonly known Information taken from the computer (CD ROMS, internet, etc.) Illustrations, photographs, or charts if not yours

9 Works Cited Page Provides bibliographic information so readers can find sources themselves Each entry includes this basic information: Name of author, editor, compiler, or translator Title of work Publication information: Source of work, date published, volume and issue numbers, page numbers, and medium of publication consulted Quick Tip: All sources cited in the paper must be listed on the Works Cited page. All sources listed on the Works Cited page must have been cited in the paper itself.

10 A Sample Works Cited Page Works Cited Davis, Barbara, Michael Scriven, and Susan Thomas. The Evaluation of Composition Instruction. New York: Teachers College P, Print. Hanson, F. Allan. Testing Testing: Social Consequences of the Examined Life. Berkeley: U of California P, Print. Huot, Brian A. The Literature of Direct Writing Assessment: Major Concerns and Prevailing Trends. Review of Educational Research 60 (1990): Print. Yancey, Kathleen. Looking Back as We Look Forward: Historicizing Writing Assessment. College Composition and Communication 50.3 (1999): Print.

11 Parenthetical Citations: How Often to Give Citations When several facts in a row within one paragraph all come from the same page of a source, use one citation to cover them all. Place the citation after the last fact. The citation MUST be in the same paragraph as the facts!

12 Formatting An In-Text, Parenthetical Citation There are two common ways of writing an in-text citation: Integrate the author s name into the sentence itself then list the page number in parenthesis at the end Include the author s name and page number in a parenthetical citation at the end of the passage in which you quote, summarize, or paraphrase the work

13 Sample In-Text Citation Example 1: Paulson and Paulson concede that their student-teachers discovered that the need to tailor a portfolio was influenced by how much personal risk could result were they to bare their own perspectives (289). The author s name appears within the text of the sentence itself; the page on which the quotation can be found is in parentheses at the end of the quotation.

14 Sample In-Text Citation Example 2: One study found that teachers discovered that the need to tailor a portfolio was influenced by how much personal risk could result were they to bare their own perspectives (Paulson and Paulson, 2003, 289). The author s name, the publication date, and the page number on which the quotation appears are included in the parentheses after the quotation.

15 Special Cases Source has unnamed author Use first key word from the title Squeezing the Poor for Votes is the title of the article, so ( Squeezing para. 4) is the parenthetical citation General reference to a web site GVSU s Writing Center is the source, so (Grand Valley State University Writing Center para. 7) is the parenthetical citation --Adapted from Purdue s OWL presentation on MLA documentation