MLA Format Slide Show

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MLA Format Slide Show

• HMXP 102
• Dr. Fike

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Directions

• Put the following data in correct MLA format.

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Things To Remember

• Double space everything.
• First line of an entry begins at the left margin.
• All subsequent lines begin one tabulation to the
  right of the left margin.
• Every entry ends with a period.

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Data on a Book

• Author John Brown
• Publisher Dovetail Publishing Company, Inc.
• Date of publication 1987
• Book title Students Love MLA Documentation
• Place of publication Whowawho, North Dakota

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What a Book Entry Should Look Like

• Brown, John. Students Love MLA
• Documentation. Whowawho, ND
• Dovetail, 1987. Print.
• Now change this entry so that the place of
  publication is New York, NY.

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New Place of Publication

• Brown, John. Students Love MLA Documentation.
  New York Dovetail, 1987. Print.
• Why isnt it New York, NY?

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Data on a Web Site

• Title of article Students Problems with MLA
  Format
• URL http//www.studentsexcelatdocumentation.com
• Date of your access 6/11/08
• Date of last update 3/1/05
• Author No author
• Main Web site name Help for Students

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What an Entry for a Website Should Look Like

• Students Problems with MLA Format.
• Help for Students. N.p. 1 Mar. 2005.
• Web. 11 June 2008.
• Note that the URL does not appear.
• N.p. stands for no provider.
• See the template on the top of page 420 in the
  handbook.

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Data on Orrs Text

• Title Love It or Lose It The Coming
  Biophilia Revolution.
• Book title The Human Experience Who Am I?
• Page numbers Text starts on page 242 and ends
  on page 246.
• Editor Winthrop University
• Edition Sixth
• Place of publication Littleton, Massachusetts
• Publisher Tapestry Press, Ltd.
• Date of publication 2009
• Author David W. Orr
• Page from which you took your information 243.

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How To Do an Entry on Orrs Text

• Orr, David W. Love It or Lose It The Coming
  Biophilia Revolution. The Human Experience
  Who Am I?. Ed. Winthrop University. 6th ed.
  Littleton, MA Tapestry, 2009. 242-46.
  Print.
• Why is there a period after the books title?
• Why isnt it Tapestry Press, Ltd.?
• Why isnt it 242-246? Why isnt it just 243 (the
  page from which you took the information?

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Do an Entry for DuBois

• Look at your books and do an entry for W. E. B.
  DuBoiss selection.

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Why Is This Different from Orr?

• DuBois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. The
  Human Experience I Who Am I?. Ed. Winthrop
  University. 7th ed. Littleton, MA Tapestry,
  2009. 116-20. Print.
• How come Orrs title is in quotation marks, but
  DuBoiss is italicized?

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Plato

• Do an entry for Platos The Allegory of the
  Cave.

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Plato

• Plato. The Allegory of the Cave. The
• Human Experience Who Am I?. Ed.
• Winthrop University. 6th ed. Littleton, MA
  Tapestry, 2009. 3-6. Print.

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Translator?

• How would you add the information on the
  translator?

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• Plato. The Allegory of the Cave. The Republic
  of Plato.
• Trans. G. M. A. Grube and C. D. C. Reeve.
• 2nd ed. The Human Experience Who Am I?. Ed.
• Winthrop University. 6th ed. Littleton, MA
  Tapestry, 2009. 3-6. Print.

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Sample Works Cited List

• See the list that precedes page 408 for an index
  to the models for types of entries.
• See page 454 in your Prentice Hall Reference
  Guide for a model.
• See numbers 8 and 9 on page 424 for a model for
  how to do a W.C. entry for a work in an
  anthology.
• Note the error on page 424, section 70c, item 8,
  2nd example the editors should precede the
  edition number.

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What if you have multiple works from the
anthology on your WC list?

• Works Cited
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Self-Reliance. Winthrop
  
• University 88-93.
• Plato. The Allegory of the Cave. Winthrop
  University
• 3-6.
• Winthrop University, ed. The Human Experience
  Who Am
• I?. 7th ed. Littleton, MA Tapestry,
  2011. Print.

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Eds. vs. Ed.What is the difference?

• AUTHOR POSITION
• Kiblinger, Kristin et al., eds.
• This means editors.
• EDITOR POSITION
• Ed. Kristin Kiblinger et al.
• This means edited by.

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In-text Citation Which is correct?

• As Joe Bleau writes in his book HMXP 102 and MLA
  Format, Students must know how to cite
  properly. (Bleau 125-130).
• As Joe Bleau writes in his book HMXP 102 and MLA
  Format, Students must know how to cite properly
  (Bleau 125-130).
• As Joe Bleau writes in his book HMXP 102 and MLA
  Format, Students must know how to cite properly
  (125-130).
• As Joe Bleau writes in his book HMXP 102 and MLA
  Format, Students must know how to cite properly
  (125-30).
• As Joe Bleau writes in his book HMXP 102 and MLA
  Format, Students must know how to cite properly
  (MLA Format 125-30).

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Correct Answer

• As Joe Bleau writes in his book HMXP 102 and MLA
  Format, Students must know how to cite properly
  (125-30).
• Note Do not repeat information from the signal
  phrase in the citation.

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Which Is Correct?

• As it says in Students Problems with MLA
  Format, it is often difficult for students to do
  citation properly (httpwww.studentsexcelat
• documentation.com).
• As it says in Students Problems with MLA
  Format, it is often difficult for students to do
  citation properly. END