Works Cited in MLA 8th Grade ELA

Goals of a Works Cited Page What are they??

Goals of a Works Cited Page What are they?? To give credit to the author of a source. We don’t want to steal other’s words!! So that the reader can find your source.

Important Data for every source Author’s name (Last, First) Title of the article (in quotes) If no article title, then the title of the Website Publication Huffington Post, New York Times, CNN.com, etc. Date of Publication Search HARD! Day Month Year URL Date YOU accessed the page Make an educated guess if you do not know.

Shortening URLs If a URL is too long, then use a resource to shorten it. Goo.gl Bit.ly

Formatting your Works Cited Page 12-point font Times New Roman Double Spaced Hanging Indent Alphabetical Order by last name

Spacing INCORRECT CORRECT Bernstein, Mark. "10 Tips on Writing the Living Web." A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites, 16 Aug. 2002, alistapart.com/article/writeliving. Accessed 4 May 2009. Gowdy, John. "Avoiding Self-organized Extinction: Toward a Co-evolutionary Economics of Sustainability." International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, vol. 14, no. 1, 2007, pp. 27-36. CORRECT Bernstein, Mark. "10 Tips on Writing the Living Web." A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites, 16 Aug. 2002, alistapart.com/article/writeliving. Accessed 4 May 2009. Gowdy, John. "Avoiding Self-organized Extinction: Toward a Co-evolutionary Economics of Sustainability." International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, vol. 14, no. 1, 2007, pp. 27-36.

Hanging Indent Highlight the citation Drag the halfway to the 1 Drag the back to the starting point

Periods, Commas, and Quotation Marks **Pay attention to placement of your punctuation. Here’s an overly exaggerated example of correct punctuation placement: Bernstein, Mark. "10 Tips on Writing the Living Web." A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites, 16 Aug 2002, alistapart.com/article/writeliving. Accessed 4 May 2009.

Your assignment for TODAY Start NEW Document in the “Thomasson Essays” folder of Drive Title the DOC “Last name Works Cited” Copy and Paste current Works Cited onto this document Follow the directions in this presentation to correct your Works Cited Turn it into Canvas