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DOCUMENTATION. Documentation Modern Language Association Format (Information Research Certificate Class 5). Two Formats: MLA vs. APA. A merican P sychological A ssociation. ( 2001 ). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association . (5th ed.). Washington, D.C.: Author.

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  1. DOCUMENTATION Documentation Modern Language Association Format (Information Research Certificate Class 5)

  2. Two Formats: MLA vs. APA • American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association. (5th ed.). Washington, D.C.: Author. • Gibaldi, Joseph.MLAHandbook forWriters of Research Papers. 6th ed. New York: Modern Language Association,2003. #1 > example of citation based on APA Format / Style #2 > based on MLA Style (publication year last)

  3. MLA vs. APA Sample: A survey of musical instruments • Use “library catalog” to determine author’s and publisher’s name… click here • MLA Marcuse, Sibyl. A Survey of Musical Instruments. New York: Harper, 1975. • APA Marcuse, S. (1975). A survey of musical instruments. New York: Harper and Row.

  4. Definitions • Plagiarism: • Literally “kidnapping,” involving the use of someone else’s words as if they were your own (Gibaldi 66). • “the wrongful appropriation or purloining, and publication as one’s own, of the ideas, or the expression of the ideas … of another.” (Oxford English Dictionary) • Theft of intellectual property • Fraud • Deception / Misrepresentation of ideas

  5. Plagiarism cont. • To avoid plagiarism,you must DOCUMENT • Documenting / Citing Definition: http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/document.html • direct quotations, • paraphrases, and • original ideas not your own. • Another reason for documentation • documentation / Citations help a reader locate and retrieve the sources you cite. • Your readers may need a direct, contextual reading of the original works of others that has been used by you.

  6. MLA: Citations in your text • Parenthetical Citations: • A brief acknowledgement in the text of the paper of what you derived from the source, and where in the work you found the material. • Last name, the page number of the quote taken • E.g.: (Wordsworth, 263) • Or without last name, but only the page number of the quote • For example >> see next slide, or the link below: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html

  7. Direct quotations: short vs. long • Direct short quotations • Vs. Parenthetical Citations (Paraphrases) >>> See next slide • Direct long quotations • quotations longer than four typed lines • in a free-standing block of typewritten lines • omit quotation marks • indented one inch from the left margin • maintain double-spacing • bottom note >>> See next slide

  8. MLA: Works Cited List • Works Cited List: • A list at the end of papers • Each source you cite in your text must appear in your works-cited list • Alphabetized by authors’ last names • or if unknown, by title • Detail for “List format”: click here http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html#Works-Cited

  9. Format for an MLA Entry Each entry in the work-cited list – complete reference at the end of your text: • 1st line - Flush Left • 2nd line and next - Indented ½ inch • All lines - Double-spaced • Capitalize the first word, and each “real” word in the titles of articles, books, etc • Exceptions: “a,” “an,” “the,” conjunctions or prepositions • Underline / italicize titles of articles, books, films, and periodicals

  10. Order for an MLA Entry • Author’s last name, first name. • Title of a part of the book. • Title of the book • Name of the editor, translator, or compiler. • Number of the edition used. • Number of the volume used. • Place of publication: name of publisher, year. • Page numbers. Note: each part ending with a period and two spaces

  11. A Book by a Single Author • Author’s or editor’s inverted name. Title of the book. Publication info, namely publication place, publisher’s name, year. • Reichs, Kathy. Fatal Voyage. New York: Scribner, 2001.

  12. An Article: in a Scholarly Journal with Continuous Pagination • Author’sLast, First name.“Title of article.”Journal TitleVolume Number (Date):page number. • Most, Andrea.“‛We Know We Belong to the Land’ The Theatricality of Assimilation in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!”PMLA113 (1998):77-89.

  13. Electronic Publications:Library Subscription Databases • Author’s Name.“Title of the document.”Print Publication Information. Information about electronic publication. Access information(i.e., location / date of access. URL). • Yarup, Robert L.“Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury.”Explicator 55(1996):34.Literature Resource Center.Gale Group. Ozuna Learning Resource Center. San Antonio. 17 Feb. 2004 <http:/galenet.galegroup.com>.

  14. More Examples: Book Citation • Reesman, Jeanne Campbell.AmericanDesigns: The Late Novels of Jamesand Faulkner. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P,1991.

  15. Periodical Example • Pavlic, Ed. “’I Just Don’t Know How to Move on Your Word’: From Signifying to Syndetic Homage in James Baldwin’s Responses to William Faulkner.” Mississippi Quarterly 53 (Fall 2000): 515.

  16. Electronic Source Citation • Wall, Carey. “The Sound and the Fury: The Emotional Center.” Midwest Quarterly 11 (1970): 371- 87. Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select. Gale Group. Ozuna Learning Resource Center. San Antonio. 13 Nov. 2001 <http:/galenet.galegroup.com>.

  17. Rules of Thumb • What style you have to follow? MLA or APA? • What type of sources used in your paper? Books? article in book?Or article in journal? • What category of examples in a handout applicable? Book examples … Internet examples? • Compare the elements in your source with the corresponding elements in a example that apply to yours Replace all elements in the example with the elements you have in your source • Double check the elements, esp. punctuations …

  18. Web Sites • http://www.mla.org • http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml# • Citing Sources (pop-up menu at left) > Interviews … • http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sources/contents.html • APA vs. MLA: Choose one under “Examples” • http://library.concordia.ca/help/howto/citations.html • For more Citation and Styles Guides • http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html

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