In text Citations

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In text Citations
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What is citing?

• Use of the exact words from a text
• What people say
• What others say about people
• Descriptive passages or phrases
• Statistics
• Definitions

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Why cite?

• To provide specific detail or evidence to support
  opinions
• To include facts to illustrate or prove a point
• To emphasize a point
• To add credibility by including the opinions of
  experts.

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Why Use MLA Format?

• Protects yourself from plagiarism
• Allows readers to cross-reference your sources
  easily
• Provides consistent format within a discipline
• Gives you credibility as a writer

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Why Use MLA Format?

• The correct documentation of your sources is
  serious business!
• If you plagiarize, even inadvertently, you may
  flunk your class, be expelled from college.
• Plagiarism in your professional career can result
  in being sued, fired, and publicly embarrassed

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Where Do I Find MLA Format?

• MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 5th
  ed.
• Composition textbooks
• The computer
• Reference books

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MLA Style Two Parts

• In text/ Parenthetical Citations
• Works Cited Page

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When Should You Use In Text/ Parenthetical
Documentation?

• When quoting/citing

words
any
that are not your own
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When Should You Use In Text/ Parenthetical
Documentation?

• When summarizing facts and ideas from a source
  
• When paraphrasing facts and ideas from a source

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When Do You Cite?

• Dont fall into the trap of plagiarism!
• If the idea or information you are using did not
  originate in your own mind . . .

cite it!
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Handling In-Text Citations
Typical in-text citation
Citation with source author mentioned in text
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Handling In-Text Citations

• Consecutive citations from the same source

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Handling In-Text Citations

• Sometimes more information is necessary.
• More than one author with the same last name
• (W. Wordsworth 23) (D. Wordsworth 224)

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Handling In-Text Citations

• More than one work by the same author
• (Joyce, Portrait 121)
• (Joyce,Ulysses 556)

• Different volumes of a multi-volume work (Jones
  1 336)
• Citing indirect sources (Johnson qtd. in
  Boswell 450)

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Handling In-Text Citations

• If the source has no known author, then use an
  abbreviated version of the title
• Full Title California Cigarette Tax Deters
  Smokers
• In-text Citation (California A14)
• If the source is only one page in length or is a
  web page with no apparent pagination
• Source Dave Polands Hot Button web column
• In-text Citation (Poland)

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Handling Long Quotations
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Handling Quotes in Your Text

• There are many different combinations and
  variations within MLA citation format.
• If you run into something unusual, look it up!

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Please use your references and ask for help.