Citing non-print or sources from the Internet - City Schools



MANUSCRIPT FORM FOR ALL TYPED PAPERSYou must follow the rules of manuscript form for every typed assignment you submit throughout the course. Follow the step-by-step instructions below.Open a Word document.Select Times New Roman, 12-point as your font. Set one-inch margins on all sides of the text. Your document should already do this for you as by default. You can check under the “Page Layout” tab and “Margins.” Under the “Home” tab and “Paragraph,” click the button that aligns all text with the left margin. Insert a running header that will appear on every page with the correct page number:On the tool bar above your document, click on the “Insert” tab.Go to the “Header & Footer” section. Select “Page Number.”Choose the “Top of the Page” drop down menu. Then select “Plain Number 3.” Your page numbers will be inserted at the top right hand corner of your pages. Under the “Design” tab, click “Different First Page” to remove the page number from the first page of your document.Click into a page number and change its font to match the rest of the essay. At this time you should also type your last name as you see below. MLA FORMATWhen writing about literature, you will identify the exact source of your textual evidence in two ways. First, you will include in-text citations that indicate the precise location of the evidence within the text. Second, you will attach a Works Cited page to your paper that provides the bibliographic information for the text you have discussed. In-Text Citations The following is an excerpt from an essay analyzing Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers.” Note the way the writer incorporates quotations from the text into her analysis. Also note the format of the in-text citation. When drawing from only one source, you only need to include the page number. Identifying the author is not necessary.Although Mrs. Peters’s growing empathy for Minnie stems largely from her observations, it is also prompted by her negative reaction to the patronizing comments of the male investigators. At several points in the story, her body language reveals her feelings. For example, when Mr. Hale remarks that “women are used to worrying over trifles,” both women move closer together and remain silent. When the county attorney asks, “for all their worries, what would we do without the ladies?” the women do not speak, nor do they “unbend” (199). The fact that the women respond in exactly the same way reveals the extent to which they are bonding.The Works Cited Page The following is a sample Works Cited page from the same essay. Notice that the in-text citation in the paragraph links to the source listed below. Works CitedGlaspell, Susan. “A Jury of Her Peers.” Literature and Its Writers: A Compact Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Ed. Ann Charters and Samuel Charters. 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford, 2004.194-210. Print.FOR MORE HELP WITH MLA FORMAT- Citing a WebsiteModern Language Association (MLA) has provided a set of guidelines to assist you. Please go online to the OWL at Purdue University Writing Center and access the links under “MLA Format: Electronic Sources.” One important item to note is that the URL is no longer necessary in citations. On websites, most titles appear above the informational text. Note all sites will have authors, and that is okay. Do your best to make sure the author is not included. Publishers (those who finance the site) usually appear in one of the top corners of the site or all the way at the bottom, near what is probably the copyright. In place of a missing date (i.e. 7 Aug. 2015), use the copyright. I recommend that you read the information on the OWL website and create your Works Cited page before you write the essays. Remember: You must follow the rules of MLA Format for all summer assignments. Last Name 2At top left corner of the first page, type the following header: Your first and last nameMrs. HornungHonors English 10Date (day month year- 7 August 2017)After the date, continue to the next line and type the title. Your title should reflect the central idea of your essay. Do not entitle your essay “Summer Assignment.” Capitalize the first letter of the title and all other important words within the title. For example, do not capitalize articles or prepositions unless they are the first word of the title. Center the title using the center button on the Paragraph toolbar. DO NOT underline, italicize, or enclose the title in quotation marks.DO NOT make your title bigger and bolder than the text. DO NOT type the title in a different font than you used for the text. DO NOT add extra line spaces before or after the title. Just continue to the next line and begin typing your essay.Indent the first line for each paragraph five spaces. One press of the tab button should do this. The default for the tab button is five spaces.Double-space ALL text. Do not put extra spaces between paragraphs or before or after your title. Under the Paragraph tab, choose Select Line Spacing OptionsSet the rules as you see belowIn-text citations for print sources with known author (aka Agatha Christie)For Print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as "symbol-using animals" (3).Human beings have been described as "symbol-using animals" (Burke 3).These examples must correspond to an entry that begins with Burke, which will be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of an entry in the Works Cited:Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. Berkeley: U of California P, 1966.Citing the BibleIn your first parenthetical citation, you want to make clear which Bible you're using (and underline or italicize the title), as each version varies in its translation, followed by book (do not italicize or underline), chapter and verse. For example:Ezekiel saw "what seemed to be four living creatures," each with faces of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle (New Jerusalem Bible, Ezek. 1.5-10).If future references employ the same edition of the Bible you’re using, list only the book, chapter, and verse in the parenthetical citation.Citing non-print or sources from the InternetWith more and more scholarly work being posted on the Internet, you may have to cite research you have completed in virtual environments. While many sources on the Internet should not be used for scholarly work (reference the OWL's Evaluating Sources of Information resource), some Web sources are perfectly acceptable for research. When creating in-text citations for electronic, film, or Internet sources, remember that your citation must reference the source in your Works Cited.Sometimes writers are confused with how to craft parenthetical citations for electronic sources because of the absence of page numbers, but often, these sorts of entries do not require a page number in the parenthetical citation. For electronic and Internet sources, follow the following guidelines:Include in the text the first item that appears in the Work Cited entry that corresponds to the citation (e.g. author name, article name, website name, film name).You do not need to give paragraph numbers or page numbers based on your Web browser’s print preview function.Unless you must list the Web site name in the signal phrase in order to get the reader to the appropriate entry, do not include URLs in-text. Only provide partial URLs such as when the name of the site includes, for example, a domain name, like or as opposed to writing out or . ................
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