Senior Project: MLA Formatting Guidelines

1. Senior Project: MLA Formatting Guidelines Feraco SFHP + Myth/Sci-Fi 13 April 2009

2. Why Bother? • Formatting easily differentiates research from original thought • Allows me to double-check your studies • Standardizes papers across classes, especially in college • Different disciplines = different formats, so learn as many as you can! • Demonstrates care and attention to detail • Looks attractive, polished, and finalized

3. The Basics • Submit via turnitin.com and hard copy • Turnitin Due Date: April 17th, 7:30am • 2691158 and D1D1 for SFHP 2009 • 2691159 and H12H12 for Myth/Science Fiction 2009 • Upload to “Senior Professional Project Paper” • MUST UPLOAD IN .DOC or .DOCX – NO EXCEPTIONS • If you don’t have Word, upload a properly-formatted copy of your paper from school • E-mail yourself the text and build the file in my room or in the library in advance – or go to a friend’s house • If you aren’t here on the 17th, make appropriate plans to finish early

4. The Page Itself • This goes into the “Conventions” part of your grade • Print your hard copies on white computer paper with black ink! • Create a cover page that includes a creative title for your research paper, your name, my name, your period and subject, and the due date – you may use color or images here • Times New Roman, 12-point font • Set your line-spacing to “Double” and your spacing to 0 pt on both “Before” and “After”

5. The Page Itself II • Margins are 1” on all sides (the handouts I give you have .7” on all sides) • Page numbers should be a header a half-inch from the top in the upper-right hand corner, and include your last name (“Feraco 1”) • You should only hit the space bar once after each sentence. See? Not like this. And definitely not like this. Boo. • Indent each paragraph by hitting “Tab” once

6. In-Text Citations • A parenthetical citation includes two parentheses, the author’s last name, and the page number • When the quote acts as the last part of your sentence, write the quote, follow it with the parenthetical, and finish with the end mark. • Orwell states that “everything is hopeless” (Orwell 6). • When the quote lies in the middle of your sentence, you still put the punctuation after your citation. • Orwell states that “everything is hopeless” (Orwell 6), but Winston’s experiences in the Prole Quarter contradict him. • If you’re citing the same work twice in a row, you don’t have to write the name again

7. In-Text Citations II • If you’re using multiple sources in the same sentence, you may combine the parentheticals: (Orwell 6; Fromm 315) • If there’s no obvious author, you may use a shortened version of the work’s title instead of the author’s last name • Do the same thing if you’re citing two works from the same author • Use the first initial and last name of authors if you’re citing different writers with the same last name: (M. Feraco 17) (S. Feraco 23) • Italicize the titles of longer works, and place the titles of songs, poems, films, articles, and other shorter pieces in quotation marks.

8. In-Text Citations III • If you’re citing an Internet resource, it’s probably a scholarly journal • If it is, the last name/page number still applies • If it’s not, use the author’s last name • If you’re citing a religious text, cite whatever is appropriate – version, book, chapter, verse, etc. • 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).

9. In-Text Citations IV • For quotes that are longer than three full lines of your page, you’ll use a block quote • The entire block quote is indented one inch (two Tabs) from the left margin, and is still double-spaced • You don’t use quotation marks, and you put your citation afterthe period • If you’re cutting words out of a quote (especially in a block quote), use … (an ellipsis) to show that you’ve made the change

10. Works Cited • You still have a page number on your separate Works Cited page – although this does not count towards your page limit • Center the title of the page on the first line • Double-space all citations here, and do not hit “Enter” between citations • Indent the second and third lines of citations by a half-inch (just like a paragraph) • Appropriately capitalize your titles (The Art of War)

11. Works Cited II • An author’s name is listed Last, First Middle • When listing your citations, alphabetize them by last name • If citing multiple works by the same author, substitute three hyphens for the name the second time • After writing the author’s name, place a period after the name and the work’s title • Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird.

12. Works Cited III • Books: Last, First. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year Published. Print. • If more than one author, then the format includes: Last, First and First Last. • If more than two authors, then the format includes: Last, First, et al. • Corporations, firms, and foundations count as authors • If you’re citing an article from a reference book, the format is: “Article.” Name of Book. Publication Date. Print.

13. Works Cited IV • Periodical: Author. “Title.” Title of Periodical Date: Page Numbers. Publication Method. • Scholarly Journal: Author. “Title.” Title of Periodical Volume.Issue (Date): Page Numbers. Publication Method. • Website: Author. Name of Site. Date Posted. Institution or Organization. Publication Method. Date You Checked the Site. • Interview: Interviewee. Personal interview. Date interviewed (in MLA format - ex. 2 April 2009)

14. Works Cited • "Business Coalition for Climate Action Doubles." Environmental Defense. 8 May 2007. Environmental Defense Organization. 24 May 2007. Web. • Clinton, Bill. Interview. New York Times on the Web. May 2007. 25 May 2007. Keyword: Climate. Web. • Dean, Cornelia. "Executive on a Mission: Saving the Planet." New York Times on the Web 22 May 2007. Web. 25 May 2007. • Ebert, Roger. "An Inconvenient Truth." Rev. of An Inconvenient Truth, dir. Davis Guggenheim. rogerebert.com. 2 June 2006. Web. 24 May 2007. • Global Warming. 2007. Cooler Heads Coalition. 24 May 2007. Web. • Gowdy, John. "Avoiding Self-organized Extinction: Toward a Co-evolutionary Economics of Sustainability." International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology 14.1 (2007): 27-36. Print. • An Inconvenient Truth. Dir. Davis Guggenheim. Perf. Al Gore. Lawrence Bender, 2006. Film. • Leroux, Marcel. Global Warming: Myth Or Reality?: The Erring Ways of Climatology. New York: Springer, 2005. Print. • Milken, Michael, Gary Becker, Myron Scholes, and Daniel Kahneman. "On Global Warming and Financial Imbalances." New Perspectives Quarterly 23.4 (2006): 63. Print. • Nordhaus, William D. "After Kyoto: Alternative Mechanisms to Control Global Warming." American Economic Review 96.2 (2006): 31-34. Print. • - - -. "Global Warming Economics." Science 9 Nov. 2001: 1283-84. 24 May 2007. Print. • Shulte, Bret. "Putting a Price on Pollution; Climate change laws seem inevitable, but their economic impact is unknown." US News & World Report 14 May 2007. 24 May 2007. Print. • Uzawa, Hirofumi. Economic Theory and Global Warming. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. Print.

15. That’s It! • Go to Purdue’s Online Writing Lab if you have any further questions – they are the authorities on MLA formatting! • Notice, however, that some of their entries haven’t been updated to comply with the MLA 2009 changes – so read things over carefully. • Good luck!