In text Citations

What is citing?

Use of the exact words from a text, film, tape, or interview

What people say What others say about people Descriptive passages or phrases Statistics Definitions

Why cite? To provide specific

detail or evidence to support opinions

To include facts to illustrate or prove a point

To emphasize a point To add credibility by

including the opinions of experts.

Why Use MLA Format? Protects yourself from

plagiarism Allows readers to cross-

reference your sources easily

Provides consistent format within a discipline

Gives you credibility as a writer

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Why Use MLA Format? The correct documentation of

your sources is serious business!

If you plagiarize, even inadvertently, you may flunk your class, be expelled from school, and college, suspended from NHS>

Plagiarism in your professional career can result in being sued, fired, and publicly embarrassed

Where Do I Find MLA Format?

http://www.sophia.org/in-text-citations--5-tutorial

www.pitcolib.org/media/uploads/CITING_SOURCES_small.ppt

MLA Style: Two PartsIn text/ Parenthetical

Citations Works Cited Page

When Should You Use In Text/ Parenthetical Documentation?

that are not your ownQuoting/citing means

to repeat another source word for word, using quotation marks.

When quoting/citing

When Should You Use In Text/ Parenthetical Documentation?

When summarizing facts and ideas

from a source

When paraphrasing facts and

ideas from a source

When Do You Cite?Don’t fall into the trap of

plagiarism!

If the idea or information you are using did not originate in your own mind . . .

Keys to In-Text Citations

Readability! Keep references brief Give only information

needed to identify the source on your Works Cited page--cross-referencing!

Do not repeat unnecessary information

Handling In-Text CitationsTypical in-text citation:

Citation with source author mentioned in text:

Handling In-Text Citations

Consecutive citations from the same source:

More than one author with the same last name(W. Wordsworth 23) (D. Wordsworth 224)

Handling In-Text Citations

Sometimes more information is necessary.

More than one work by the same author(Joyce, Portrait 121) (Joyce, Ulysses 556)

Different volumes of a multi-volume work(Jones 1: 336)

Citing indirect sources (Johnson qtd. in Boswell 450)

Handling In-Text CitationsOther problems: If the source has no known author, then

use an abbreviated version of the title:

If the source is only one page in length or is a web page with no apparent pagination:

Full Title: “California Cigarette Tax Deters Smokers”

Source: Dave Poland’s “Hot Button” web column

In-text Citation: (“California ” A14)

In-text Citation: (Poland)

Choose your quotations carefully and for specific reasons.

Later reference

Memorable language

Authority

Accuracy

Brevity

When To Use Quotations

When To Use QuotationsChoose your quotations carefully and for specific reasons.

Use quotations to support your argument

A short phrase or sentence is more easily

understood than a long quotation. Look for the "kernel" or the

most important part of the quotation and extract it.

Paraphrase a quotation in your own words when possible.

Handling Long Quotations

There are many different combinations and variations within MLA citation format.

If you run into something unusual, look it up!

Handling Quotes in Your Text

Source

[PPT]  In Text Citation www.mvctc.com/researchpaper/

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