Week 10

Question 1

For a “Works Cited”

Answer 1

• Author’s name goes first (in reverse order if just a single author). The rule changes if 2 authors–use “and” with second name not reversed; or, if more than 3 authors, just use first author listed, followed by et al.)
• Works Cited are in alphabetical order (no numbering or bullet points)
• The second line of a citation is always indented
• Articles, book chapters, poems, short fictions (for example) are in “double quotation” marks and properly capitalized.
• Books, journals, newspapers (for example— as places where a publication is located) are underlined or italicized and properly capitalized. Other resources would follow the same, such as films, a television series (for example: Friends. But the episode, say for example, “The One with the Proposal,” is in “double quotation” marks, and properly capitalized).
• The months May, June, July are in full; all others are shortened, such as Sept. Oct. Jan.
• If theres no page number, N.Pag. is most commonly used (depends on the resource).

Question 2

In-Text Citation (quoting and citing a secondary resource in a paper).

Answer 2

So for example: (know this first one)
Say you were quoting something from a book w/ pagination (by an author named John Smith)
… your “in-text” citation would just be the page number in a (bracket) after the quote. I’ll
make up a page number here: 187. If you never referenced the author’s name in the sentence,
then you include the author’s name as well: (Smith 187). No comma. If you have referenced
the author’s name in the sentence, then it would be just the page number in a bracket: (187).
Know this basic rule above for Content Exam.
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Others: (again, this is for in-text citation)
If 2 authors (John Smith and Alice Tucker), you join with and: (Smith and Tucker 64) and still
no comma.
If more than 3 authors, use the primary (named first on the reference), and then use et al. followed by the page numbers: (Lyons et al. 103-104).
Or if it’s a quote in a book by another author, use author in the sentence but then acknowledge where it was located with “qtd. in.” Such as:
National governments have become increasingly what Ulrich Beck, in a 1999 interview, calls, “zombie institutions” —institutions which are “dead and still alive” (qtd. in Bauman 6).
That’s just books with pagination. But there are so many rules, especially with electronic
resources, and that all depends on the “kind” of electronic resource used, so this you’d have to look up (assess the kind of electronic resource, and then see “Electronic Resources” on MLA to find the correct format)