AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION SUMMER PACKET 2016 SAMPLE OUTLINE FORMAT

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1 AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION SUMMER PACKET 2016 SAMPLE OUTLINE FORMAT Last Name 1 Your Name (your name, obviously) Mr. Waselko (teacher name) AP Language and Composition (class name) 18 Aug (due date) I. Main point #1 A. Support for main point #1 Descriptive Title for Outline B. More support for main point #1 C. Even more support for main point #1 II. Main point #2 the format is the same as main point #1 III. Main point #3 (you may have more than 3 main points) the format is the same as main point #1 IV. Main point #4 (if necessary) the format is the same as main point #1

2 BV ELECTRONIC RESOURCES FOR INFOHIO including EBSCO Host (i.e. magazine database, World Book encyclopedia, Biography Reference Bank, etc.) Access: Go to or Log in: infohio Password: power Infotrac Student Resource Center Magazine and newspaper database and Opposing Viewpoints Access: or Log in: bvls Password: barons SIRS (Social Issues Resources Series) Researcher Access: or If at school the ID is: If at home the ID is: REMOTE Password: bigchalk Click on Go to My Products and then SIRS Knowledge Source to get to the SIRS Researcher. YOUR WORKS CITED LIST - From Purdue Writing Lab ( The works cited list should appear at the end of your essay. Each source you cite in the essay must appear in your works-cited list; likewise, each entry in the works-cited list must be cited in your text. List Format Begin your works cited list on a separate page from the text of the essay under the label Works Cited (with no quotation marks, underlining, etc.), which should be centered at the top of the page. Make the first line of each entry in your list flush left with the margin. Subsequent lines in each entry should be indented one-half inch. This is known as a hanging indent. Double space all entries, with no skipped spaces between entries. Keep in mind that underlining and italics are equivalent; use one or the other throughout your essay. Alphabetize the list of works cited by the first word in each entry (usually the author's last name). Basic Rules for Citations Authors' names are inverted (last name first); if a work has more than one author, invert only the first author's name, follow it with a comma, then continue listing the rest of the authors. If you have cited more than one work by a particular author, order them alphabetically by title, and use three hyphens in place of the author's name for every entry after the first. When an author appears both as the sole author of a text and as the first author of a group, list soloauthor entries first. If no author is given for a particular work, alphabetize by the title of the piece and use a shortened version of the title for parenthetical citations. Capitalize each word in the titles of articles, books, etc. This rule does not apply to articles, short prepositions, or conjunctions unless one is the first word of the title or subtitle. Underline or italicize titles of books, journals, magazines, newspapers, and films. Use quotation marks around the titles of articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers. Also use quotation marks for the titles of short stories, book chapters, poems, and songs. List page numbers efficiently. If you refer to a journal article that appeared on pages 225 through 250, list the page numbers on your Works Cited page as Pages 25 through 27 would be written as 25-7.

3 CITING ARTICLES FROM BUCKEYE VALLEY ONLINE DATABASES *NOTE: Magazine, newspaper, journal, database, and access dates are in the day-month-year format (31 Mar unless otherwise specified). Also, for space considerations, the entries are not doubles-spaced as they should be. Also, access date refers to the date you took the notes or printed the article. SIRS Author's name. "Title of the Article." Original Source of Article Date of original source: page numbers. Name of the Database Used. Name of the Service. Name of Library or Library System, City, State Abbreviation. Date of access <URL of service's homepage>. Frick, Robert. "Investing in Medical Miracles." Kiplinger's Personal Finance Feb. 1999: SIRS Researcher. ProQuest. North Library, Anytown, TX. 21 Oct < INFOTRAC EXCERPTS IN BOOKS Author s last name, First name. Article Title. Book Title. Editor s Name. City of Publication: Publishing Company, date of publication. Online. Student Resource Center - Silver. Gale. Name of Library or Library System. access date <root address>. Wright, Andrew H. Heroines, Heroes, and Villains in Pride and Prejudice. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Pride and Prejudice: A Collection of Essays. Ed. E. Rubenstein. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, Online. Student Resource Center - Silver. Gale. Buckeye Valley High School. 21 Oct INFOTRAC ARTICLES IN MAGAZINES Author s Last Name, First Name. Article Title. Magazine Title Date of publication: pages. Online. Student Resource Center Silver. Gale. Name of Library or Library System. access date <root address>. Gibson, John. The Great Gatsby: A Tribute. Newsweek 5 Dec. 2011:86-7. Online. Student Resource Center - Silver. Gale. Buckeye Valley High School. 21 Oct INFOTRAC ARTICLES IN SCHOLARLY JOURNALS Author s Last Name, First Name. Article Title. Journal Title Volume (Date). Online. Student Resource Center Silver. Gale. Name of Library or Library System. access date <root address>. Pearson, Roger L. Gatsby: False Prophet of the American Dream. English Journal 59 (17 May 1970). Online. Student Resource Center - Silver. Gale. Buckeye Valley High School. 21 Oct INFOTRAC ARTICLES IN NEWSPAPERS Author s Last Name, First Name. Article Title. Newspaper Title Volume:Issue (Date): page(s). Online. Student Resource Center - Silver. Gale. Name of Library or Library System. access date <root address>. Cowen, R. Neutron Stars Twist Einstein s Theory. Science News 158:10 (2 Sept. 2000): 150. Online. Student Resource Center - Silver. Gale. Buckeye Valley High School. 21 Oct INFOTRAC PROPRIETARY MATERIAL (they created and own rights to this) Article Title. Name of Gale Program (program copyright date) Reproduced online. Student Resource Center Silver. Gale. Name of Library or Library System. access date <root address>. Edward Abbey. Discovering Authors (1999). Reproduced online. Student Resource Center - Silver. Gale. Buckeye Valley High School. 21 Oct. 2011

4 INFOHIO ELECTRONIC DATABASES (MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS) Author s Last Name, First Name. Article Title. Journal/Magazine Title Date of Publication: page(s). Database Name. Online. EBSCOhost. Name of Library or Library System. Available: <electronic address> access date. Tator, Charles, James D. Carson, and Robert Cushman. Hockey Injuries of the Spine in Canada, CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal 21 Feb. 2000:787. Academic Search Premier. Online. EBSCOhost. Buckeye Valley High School. Available: < > 21 Oct PARENTHETICAL CITATIONS - From Purdue Writing Lab ( In MLA style, referring to the works of others in your text is done in two ways. When you make reference to someone else's idea, either through paraphrasing or quoting them directly, you: provide the author's name (or the title of the work if there is no author) and the page number (or paragraph if it is a printout rather than a photocopy or actual hard copy of the original source) of the work in a parenthetical citation provide full citation information for the work in your Works Cited list AUTHOR N NAME USED IN THE SENTENCE: Wordsworth scholar Phillip Jackson stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (263). AUTHOR N NAME NOT USED IN THE SENTENCE: Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Jackson 263). NO AUTHOR LISTED USE AN ABBREVIATED VERSION OF THE TITLE: Some of Wordsworth s critics argue that his poems were too emotional ("Poets Who Write Stuff" 100). INDIRECT QUOTES - Sometimes you may have to use an indirect quotation. An indirect quotation is a quotation that you found in another source that was quoting from the original. For such indirect quotations, use "qtd. in" to indicate the source and to not forget to indicate who actually said the quoted material. Harvard education professor Carl Ravitch argues that high schools are pressured to act as "social service centers, and they don't do that well" (qtd. in Weisman 259). (NOTE: The Ravitch quote appears in the Weisman book!)

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