Learning to properly cite the words of others is one of the most important skills you will ever learn. You will use this skill throughout high school, in every college class you take, and in professional writing. Using your literature readings this week, write two proper citations. Please study the examples below in bold.
Basic In-Text Citation Rules
In MLA style, referring to the works of others in your text is done by using what is known as parenthetical citation. This method involves placing relevant source information in parentheses after a quote or a paraphrase.
General Guidelines
•The source information required in a parenthetical citation depends (1.) upon the source medium (e.g. Print, Web, DVD) and (2.) upon the source’s entry on the Works Cited (bibliography) page.
•Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text, must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry in the Works Cited List.
In-Text Citations: Author-Page Style
MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author's last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author's name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:
Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (263).
Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth 263).
Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).
Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information:
Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. London: Oxford U.P., 1967. Print.
This week you will choose a character from your core literature text and write a one paragraph character analysis. An example is provided for you below:
Katherine Anne Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weahterall" shows us the thoughts and feelings of an elderly woman named Mrs. Weatherall. She is a stubborn, lonely woman who feels she is treated like a child because of her age, which in turn adds to her depression. Mrs. Weatherall's first and most obvious characteristic, stubbornness, is best personified by her remarks and speech in the story. Her inflexible personality makes her quite difficult to keep company with. One example of how Porter shows Mrs. Weatherall's stubbornness is when Cornelia has to ask her mother's permission to change the furniture arrangement (Porter 65). However, most of her pig-headedness is shown when she speaks. A prime example of this is when Mrs. Weatherall is urging the doctor to leave and says "Leave a well woman alone. I'll call for you when I want you. . ." (Porter 64).
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John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" shows us a rather large man, Lennie, who is a migrant worker with a mental disability. He relies on his partner whom he is traveling with, George. Lennie is kind, gentle, caring, and a little sensitive. This shows when in the book, Lennie wanted to keep a mouse he found which he loved to pet with his thumb but George came over, took it from him, and threw it as far away as he could. Lennie then started to weep (Steinbeck 9). Another example is when George scolds Lennie for looking at a woman who was married and talking to himself about how pretty she was. He kept repeating that he meant no harm so that George could stop scolding him (Steinbeck 32).
Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal demonstrates the actions and life of a hard-working man named Kenny Dobbins. Kenny Dobbins is a loyal and caring man who feels that his work at the meat-packing industry is important, causing him to trust everything the managers say. An example of how loyal Kenny was was when he returned to the slaughterhouse to work even after he had back surgery for a pair of severely herniated disks. (Schlosser 187) Kenny also showed his kindness while working with other employees. He was always looking out for others and even saved a man’s life by pulling him away from a dangerous machine. (Schlosser 189)
dmkddfun- If you are using the authors words, you need to put those words inside quotation marks.
dmkddfun- nicely done!
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about a girl named Scout Finch. She is a tomboy who lives in Maycomb County. Lee gives us a hint tomboyishness by what a neighbor tells Scout, “And you- ‘she pointed an arthritic finger at me- ‘what are you doing in those overalls? You should be in a dress and camisole, young lady!” (Lee 135). Scout loves to hang out in the tree house her father built for her and her brother. After school, she walks home and plays in the front yard the rest of the day. Scout is also very smart. She learned to read before she started school. In first grade, Miss Caroline asked Scout to read the alphabet from the board. “As I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate...” (Lee 22).
In the book, "To Kill a Mockingbird" Scout, the narrator of the story, is a smart and kind young girl with many adventures. Throughout the novel, it is explained how, even though Scout is only six or seven, she is extremely intelligent but because she is young and innocent, she gets herself into trouble a lot. For example, on one occasion, Francis called Scout a ‘niger-lover’, and because she is so young and doesn’t understand confrontation, she jumped on him, getting in trouble with her teacher and parents. (Lee 114) Scout is extremely close to her brother, Jem, but as the story continues they grow slightly apart because of their ages. She also looks up to her father. He is a lawyer and a very intelligent man. Scout is kind and a friend to almost everyone.
Atticus, in "To Kill a Mockingbird," demonstrates his patient and sympathetic attitude towards his children, or child, in this passage. When he senses that something didn't go right during Scout's first day at school, the patiently asks her "Something wrong, Scout (Lee, 32)" and waits for her response in "amiable silence (32)."
Although he's patient with Scout, he also takes on a mature tone with her and expects her to do the same to him. The first evidence is that Scout calls him "Atticus" rather that "Dad." He later explains to Scout that she must be patient with her schoo teacher. They "could not expect her to learn all Maycomb's ways in one day...(32)"
Finally, Atticus, being a lawyer, uses very matter-of-fact language. When Scout wishes she didn't have to go to school, her father says that since "the law remains rigid (32)," she "must go (to school) (33)"
Atticus sums up his entire character in his strong sentence, a theme throughout the book. "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it (33)"
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