MLA In-Text Citations Treasure Hunt
MLA In-Text Citations Treasure Hunt: Follow the directions below to get to the correct OWL website page
1.)Google OWL Purdue
2.)Click on Welcome to the PurdueUniversity Online Writing Lab (OWL) link
3.)Click on the orange box that says: OWL the Purdue Online Writing Lab
4.)Scroll over to orange drop down menu on left hand side of the screen
5.)Scroll into the Suggested Resources area and click on MLA Guide link
6.)Click on MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics link
7.)Use the material on the webpage to answer the following questions
Remember-you are required to cite the sources you use in your essay two different places. The first place you cite a source is in your text, in other words, in the body of your essay. This is called an in-text citation. The second place you cite your source is in the Works Cited page, which is the last page of your essay. Think of your Works Cited page as a kind of bibliography.
Basic In-Text Citation Rules
1.)What does the method of parenthetical citation involve?
General Guidelines
2.)What two things does the source information required in a parenthetical citation depend upon?
3.)Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. Explain what this means.
4.)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. Explain what this means:
In-Text Citations: Author-Page Style
5.)The MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. What does this mean?
6.)In what two places may the author's name appear?
7.)Where should the page number(s) always appear?
Use the following examples to answer questions 8-12
a.) Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (263).
b.) Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth 263).
c.) Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).
8.)In example a.) how come there is only a page number in the parenthesis?
9.)Should you use a comma directly after a quote and before the parenthesis that contains the source information?
10.)In example c.) there is no quote, but a page number has been cited? Explain why.
11.)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, where can they turn?
Citing Non-Print or Sources from the Internet
12.)When creating in-text citations for electronic, film, or Internet sources, what must you remember?
13.)Do you need to give paragraph numbers or page numbers based on your Web browser’s print preview function?
14.)Should you include full URLs in-text?______
15.)Give an example of a partial UR:
Electronic Sources
****Hint—you will not find the answer to question 16 & 17 on the OWL website. Read the information below and come up with an answer on your own******
Because many electronic sources do not list the authors’ names, one can not follow the MLA author-page style of citation. Suppose you are using a source from the internet titled “The Red Scare of the 1920s” which you found on a website called Historybuff.com. Again, the only information you have about this resource is the title of the essay and the website.
16.)What do you think is the best way to create a parenthetical citation using the information that you have?
17.)Why would it be unacceptable to just cite the name of a website like Wikipedia without providing a title of the information that you are using in your research paper?