Thursday, April 03, 2008

Students,

Below are some helps in terms of creating your Works Cited page. Please look to at the entry on giving credit within your paper for electronic resources. Try to create your Works Cited page (bibliography) before the week of April 8 classes.

Keep working,
Mr. Minick
Books
First or single author's name is written last name, first name. The basic form for a book citation is:
Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.
Book with One Author
Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: Penguin Books, 1987.
Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. Denver: MacMurray, 1999.
Book with More Than One Author
First author name is written last name first; subsequent author names are written first name, last name.
Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston: Allyn, 2000.
If there are more than three authors, you may list only the first author followed by the phrase et al. (the abbreviation for the Latin phrase "and others"; no period after "et") in place of the other authors' names, or you may list all the authors in the order in which their names appear on the title page.
Wysocki, Anne Frances, et al. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2004.
or
Wysocki, Anne Frances, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Cynthia L. Selfe, and Geoffrey Sirc. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2004.
Two or More Books by the Same Author
After the first listing of the author's name, use three hyphens and a period instead of the author's name. List books alphabetically by title.
Palmer, William J. Dickens and New Historicism. New York: St. Martin's, 1997.
---. The Films of the Eighties: A Social History. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1993.
Book by a Corporate Author
A corporate author may be a commission, a committee, or any group whose individual members are not identified on the title page:
American Allergy Association. Allergies in Children. New York: Random, 1998.
Book with No Author
List and alphabetize by the title of the book.
Encyclopedia of Indiana. New York: Somerset, 1993.
For parenthetical citations of sources with no author named, use a shortened version of the title instead of an author's name. Use quotation marks and underlining as appropriate. For example, parenthetical citations of the source above would appear as follows: (Encyclopedia 235).

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

MLA / About Page Numbers
Many electronic sources don't provide standard page numbers. The MLA Style Manual recommends that writers include the number range or total number of pages or paragraphs if they are numbered. In cases where page numbers are unavailable, the MLA Handbook requires that "n. pag." (no pagination) be included in the "Works Cited" entry (see Handbook, pp. 136-37, 165).
MLA / Parenthetical Reference within Your Paper to an Electronic Source
When documenting a work within your paper, use a parenthetical reference (see Handbook, pp. 104, 184-205). The reference should:
point to the source in your Works Cited section by the author's last name, or, if the author isn't given, by a portion of the title; and
identify the location of the information by page number if possible. Omit if not, but include "n. pag." in the "Works Cited" entry.
Example:
From a very young age, children can provide surprisingly accurate descriptions of how they were injured (Peterson).