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Title: Tips for MLA Documentation form


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Tips for MLA Documentation form
  • Review of Works Cited Documentation

2
Creating a Works Cited Page
  • Key Points to Remember
  • What should be listed?
  • How should citations be organized?
  • What is a hanging indent?
  • Works actually referenced within the essay.
  • List citations in alphabetical order.
  • By authors last name
  • By first key word of the title (if no author
    given)
  • A hanging indent is a .5 in. indent of the 2nd
    and subsequent lines of the citation. The first
    line is flush with the left margin.

3
Creating a Works Cited Page
  • Key Points to Remember
  • What should be capitalized?
  • What should be enclosed in quotations?
  • What is generally underlined?
  • How should pagination be handled?
  • Key words in titles of books and articles.
  • Titles of articles, titles of chapters or
    sections of books.
  • Underline Magazine titles or Book titles. Also
    underline titles of Databases or Websites.
  • Give inclusive page numbers for articles and
    sections of books.

4
Citing Different Source Types
  • Identify the source, the problem, and how to fix
    it.
  • Bellah, Robert. Habits of the Heart.
    Individualism and Commitment in American Life.
    U. of California, Berkeley 1985.
  • Bellah, Robert. Habits of the Heart
    Individualism and Commitment in American Life.
    Berkeley U. of California, 1985.

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Citing Different Source Types
  • Identify the source, the problem, and how to fix
    it.
  • Ginat, Rami. The Soviet Union and the Syrian
    Bath Regime from Hesitation to Rapprochement.
    Middle Eastern Studies. Vol. 36, 2, 2000.
    190-206.
  • Ginat, Rami. The Soviet Union and the Syrian
    Bath Regime from Hesitation to Rapprochement.
    Middle Eastern Studies. 36.2 (2000) 190-206.

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Citing Different Source Types
  • Identify the source, the problem, and how to fix
    it.
  • Lowe, Michelle S. Urban Studies. Britains
    Regional shopping centres new urban forms?
    37,2, 2000 157-160. InfoTrac 14 Jan. 2003
  • lthttp//web5. infotrac.galegroup.comgt
  • Lowe, Michelle. Britains Regional Shopping
    Centres New Urban Forms? 37.2 (2000)
    157-160. InfoTrac. 14 Jan. 2003
    lthttp//web5.infotrac. galegroup.comgt
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