Do Now Cards on table for checking Attention turned on fully

Organizing Your Note Cards The Creation of an Outline in a Pile

Step One Decide how you are going to organize (i.e. types of persecution, different jobs children had, kinds of bombs that went boom)

Step Two Group similar facts together Take care that you really think about where they belong Put any “weird” ones to the side; don’t throw them out (you never know)

Step 3 Organize cards within each pile into an order that flows Essentially you are repeating Step Two but within each smaller pile

Step 4 Order the piles according to how you are going to write your paper

The Result (hopefully) If you have done everything correctly, you will be holding an outline You will also realize in what areas you need to keep looking

The Awful Truth As always, if this doesn’t work… It is YOUR FAULT

Part II: Frequently Used Elements of MLA Style © The Smucker Learning Center The University of Akron – Wayne College Highly Modified for Eighth Grade Green 8

Citing Your Sources Means telling your readers where the information came from Is a courtesy to the original authors Is a courtesy to your readers

Not Citing your Sources Is called plagiarism Is a form of dishonesty Can bring severe penalties

As You Research You Should Have Created a citation card for each source that you found Created fact cards with the source number and page number on them If you didn’t, then you are responsible for your own pain

When to Cite a Source Always – when you quote directly When the information is not common knowledge Whenever you quote, paraphrase, or summarize an author’s information

Cite In-Text Enough information to refer the reader to the bibliography Give author and page numbers

Paraphrased Material Author’s name may be gracefully worked into the sentence, with the page or paragraph number within parentheses at the end of the sentence. Example: In his article in Rolling Stone, Jones says that Siskel and Ebert rate Pleasantville as the best movie of 1998 (Jones, 72).

Paraphrased Material – cont. Author’s name may appear with the page or paragraph number within parentheses at the end of the sentence. Example: Siskel and Ebert say Pleasantville is the best movie of 1998 (Jones, 72).

Information I Took From Somewhere In 1882 there were 104,000 children working in mines (Jones, 82).

Documenting Quotations Short quotes – up to 4 lines in length Long quotes – more than 4 lines

Short Quotes Put quote marks around quoted material Cite the source in parentheses Place the period after the closing parenthesis

Short Quotes – Examples Jones states, “Siskel and Ebert think Pleasantville will top the charts” (Jones, 72). Some are saying, “Pleasantville will win an Academy Award” (Jones, 73).

Long Quote – Example At the conclusion of Lord of the Flies, Golding has Ralph and the other boys realize the horror of their actions. The tears began to flow and sobs shook him. He gave himself up to them now for the first time on the island; great shuddering spasms of grief that seemed to wrench his whole body. His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too (Golding, 186).

Bibliography Citations Miller, Perry. The New England Mind. Boston: Beacon Press, Morgan, Edmund. Visible Saints, the History of a Puritan Idea. New York: New York University Press, 1963.