A Guide: In-Text Citations for Survival Essay

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1 A Guide: In-Text Citations for Survival Essay In-text MLA Citation for Novels and Short Stories: Cite the author s last name and the page number where you found the quotation Examples: No way was I staying in that water (Bodeen 99). He pulled until the blood pounded in his head and the knots were as tight as his strength could make them (Ullman 182). In-text MLA Citation for Poems: Cite the author s last name and the line number(s) you re quoting; use slash marks to indicate line breaks within the poem. Example: Survival of the fittest in every jungle / reminds me of how we act (Reizer 17-18). or If you include the title and author in the lead-in to your quotation, just cite the line numbers after the quotation. Example: In Edwina Reizer s poem Survival of the Fittest, she states Survival of the fittest in every jungle / reminds me of how we act (17-18). In-text MLA Citation for Songs: Cite the performer s last name after a quotation; use slash marks to indicate line breaks within the song. Examples: Skies are crying, I am watching / Catching tear drops in my hands (Lovato). I heard them say, love is the way / Love is the answer, that s what they say (K naan). In-text MLA Citation for Films: Cite the director s last name and the title of the film after a quotation or paraphrase. Don t forget to italicize film titles. Example: Pi rocks the boat back and forth to make Richard Parker feel seasick. At the same time, he blows his rescue whistle insistently, ensuring that Richard Parker associates the sound of the whistle with feeling nauseous (Lee, Life of Pi). If you want a direction quotation from the movie, visit and cite the quotation the same was as above. Example: Pi Patel says Above all: don t lose hope (Lee, Life of Pi).

2 A Guide: Creating a Works Cited Page for Survival Essay 1. Start your Works Cited Page on a new page (i.e. do not start typing on the same page as your essay conclusion). 2. Center the title Works Cited at the top. 3. Copy and paste the necessary citations from the list below. 4. Put citations in alphabetical order by the first letter of the citation. 5. Be sure to use the hanging indent (do not indent the first line of the citation, but do indent each subsequent line after the first). 6. Use Times New Roman Font. 7. Use 12-point font. 8. Use Double Spacing. 9. Do not insert extra spaces between each citation. Angelou, Maya. "Life Doesn't Frighten Me." And Still I Rise. New York: Random House, Avi. Crispin: Cross of Lead. New York: Hyperion for Children, Bodeen, S. A. The Raft. New York: Feiwel and Friends, Bon Jovi, Jon. "It's My Life" Crush. Luke Ebbin, Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, CD. Clements, Andrew. Things Not Seen. New York: Philomel, Bruchac, Joseph. "Birdfoot's Grampa." Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry. By Maria Mazziotti Gillan. New York: Viking, Collins, Billy. "On Turning Ten." The Art of Drowning. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh, De La Mare, Walter. "All But Blind." Walter De La Mare: Selected Poems. By Peter Denman. Beirut: York, Dickinson, Emily. "If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking." The Important Literary Discovery of the Century: Further Poems of Emily Dickinson Edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson. By Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Boston: Little, Brown, 1929.

3 Eliot, George. "Count That Day Lost." Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings. By A. S. Byatt and Nicholas Warren. London: Penguin, Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Success" May-day and Other Poems. By Gordon Norton Ray. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, Grohl, Dave. "Walk" Wasting Light. Foo Fighters, CD. Hay, Sara Henderson. "For a Dead Kitten." First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential Poems That Captivated and. By Mark Twain. Place of Publication Not Identified: Diane Pub, Henley, William Ernest. "Invictus." A Book of Verses. London: D. Nutt, Hobbs, Will. Downriver. New York: Atheneum, Hughes, Langston. "Poem." The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. By Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad, and David E. Roessel. New York: Knopf, Hughes, Langston. "Still Here." The Collected Works of Langston Hughes. By Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad, Dolan Hubbard, and Leslie Catherine Sanders. Columbia: U of Missouri, K'naan. "Wavin' Flag" Troubadour. Kerry Brothers, Jr., Bruno Mars, CD. Life of Pi. Dir. Ang Lee. Perf. Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Rafe Spall, Gerard Depardieu. Fox 2000 Pictures, DVD. Lovato, Demi. By Toby Gad, Kerli Koiv, and Lindy Robbins. "Skyscraper" Unbroken. Toby Gad, CD. McCartney, Paul. By John Lennon and Paul McCartney. "Blackbird" The Beatles (The White Album). George Martin, CD.

4 Merriam, Eve. "Metaphor." It Doesn't Always Have to Rhyme. New York: Atheneum, Moss, Jeff. "I'm Going to Say I'm Sorry." A Bad Case of the Giggles: Kids' Favorite Funny Poems. By Stephen Carpenter and Bruce Lansky. Deephaven, MN: Meadowbrook, Nelson, Portia. "Autobiography in Five Short Chapters" There's a Hole in My Sidewalk: The Romance of Self-discovery. Hillsboro, OR: Beyond Words Pub., Ortiz, Simon J. "My Father's Song." Going for the Rain: Poems. New York: Harper & Row, Reizer, Edwina. "Survival Of The Fittest Poem." Poemhunter.com. 7 July Web. < Rotella, Alexis. "Purple." Step Lightly: Poems for the Journey. By Nancy Willard. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, Shakur, Tupac, and Dramacydal. "Me Against the World" Me Against the World. Soulshock and Karlin, CD. Smith, Roland. Elephant Run. New York: Hyperion for Children, Smith, Roland. Peak. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Children's, Sonnenblick, Jordan. Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie. New York: Scholastic, Ullman, James Ramsey. "A Boy and a Man" from Banner in the Sky. Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes, Bronze. By Kate Kinsella. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education,

5 Viorst, Judith. "Mending." If I Were in Charge of the World and Other Worries: Poems for Children and Their Parents. By Judith Viorst and Lynne Cherry. New York: Atheneum, Viorst, Judith. "Since Hanna Moved Away." If I Were in Charge of the World and Other Worries: Poems for Children and Their Parents. By Judith Viorst and Lynne Cherry. New York: Atheneum, Zolotow, Charlotte. "People." All That Sunlight;. By Charlotte Zolotow and Walter Stein. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.