 Skills Notes and Practice: MLA Style and Plagiarism  Review Current Events Journal assignment and Unit I Schedule  Assign homework By the end of class today, we will cite information using MLA style.

Label your paper “Skills Notes: MLA Style” then answer the following questions:  What does it mean to cite something?  Why should we cite?  What should we cite? As you do this, I will collect your homework: your student letter and your signed parent/guardian and student letter (If you did not finish last class).

Sources...  provide context  strengthen your argument  add interest to your paper  provide you with new ideas  reveal controversies  help you understand how rhetoric, or an argument, works

You must cite someone else’s:  words you quote  words you summarize or paraphrase  ideas (interpretation, opinion, conclusion)  data you have not compiled yourself Why should I cite?  to give credit to an author or authors  to avoid plagiarism  to enable readers to locate related materials on a particular topic

 Complete the questions on Poll Everywhere about plagiarism as they appear  When the question pulls up on the screen you are going to text a number beside either Yes or No for your answer. (this will be your message or body text)  You will text your answer or the number beside your answer to (this will be your “contact”)

 Definition: the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.  There are five basic rules regarding the use of information in professional and in academic writing: 1. If you use the language of your source, you must quote it exactly, enclose it in quotation marks, and cite the source. 2. If you use ideas or information that are not common knowledge, you must cite the source. 3. If you didn’t invent it, cite the source. 4. Unless your professor explicitly tells you to paraphrase, don’t paraphrase. 5. When in doubt, cite the source. Doing so can only enhance your readers sense of your honesty.

STUDENT EXAMPLE ORIGINAL SOURCE: SPARK NOTES

STUDENT EXAMPLE ORIGINAL SOURCE

STUDENT EXAMPLE ORIGINAL SOURCE

Book  Author’s name (or names)  Book title  Place of publication  Name of publishing company  Publication date  Identify the text as a print source  Try to find this information:  On the cover  On the title page (within the first few pages)

Author last name, first name. Book title. Place of publication: Publishing company, year published. Print. Columbus, Christopher. How I Didn’t Discover America. New York: New Country Books, Print. Columbus, Christopher and John Smith. How We “Accidentally” Killed Some Natives. New York: New Country Books, Print. Notice the “hanging indent” and double-spacing!

Article (from a magazine, newspaper, etc.)  Author’s name  Article title  Magazine, etc., title  Publication date  Page numbers of article  Identify the text as a print source  Try to find this information:  On the cover  On the spine  In the table of contents

Author last name, first name. “Article title.” Magazine, etc., title Publication date: page numbers of article. Print. Washington, George. “I Wish I Didn’t Have Wooden Teeth.” Founding Fathers Summer 1775: 15 – 25. Print. Adams, John. “I Should have Written More Letters to my Wife.” Old Dead White Guys Weekly 34.3 (1774): 45 – 70. Print. Adams, Abigail. “How I Really Had All the Good Ideas.” Presidents’ Wives Tribune 12 Feb. 1780: A5. Print.

Website  Author’s name  Article title  Web-site title  Sponsor of the web-site  Date of publication or last update  Identify the text as a web source  Date you accessed the page  URL (or website address)  Try to find this information:  In the location search box  On the home page  At the bottom of the page in fine print

Author last name, first name. “Article title.” Web-site title. Sponsor of the web-site. Date of publication or last update. Web. Date of access. Franklin, Benjamin. “How to Woo Women.” Living the Pious Life. Fans of Franklin, Inc. 15 Sept Web. 8 Aug

When looking up Internet sources, stay away from the following:  Wikipedia  Blogs  Discussion Boards Why do these present problems? Try to find a credible site—these should have publication/copyright information and reference other sources. Beware of Satirical sites like The Onion and The Oatmeal

 Zite  Flipboard  Yahoo! News  CNN  NY Times  NPR  Huffington Post**  Fox News**

A list of references, sometimes called a “bibliography”

 Center the following title: Works Cited  List references in alphabetical order by the first word of each citation  Remember to double-space every line and use the hanging indent

Works Cited Columbus, Christopher. How I Didn’t Discover America. New York: New Country Books, Print. Franklin, Benjamin. “How to Woo Women.” Living the Pious Life. Fans of Franklin, Inc. 15 Sept Web. 8 Aug Washington, George. “I Wish I Didn’t Have Wooden Teeth.” Founding Fathers Summer 1775: 15 – 25. Print.

1. Please write an example of a citation, correctly using MLA style, for each of the following:  Book or Article (use a magazine or newspaper)  Website  App Based Article 2. Next, using your above examples, create a Works Cited page, correctly using MLA style. 3. We will SHARE and CORRECT these.

 Summer Reading Due Monday/Tuesday  Begin First Current Events Blog- Due by Friday, August 21 st at 5 P.M.