1. Today’s goals Introduce citations and works cited pages
Discuss strategies and content for informative body paragraphs
Continue working to draft a web article as a class

2. Class discussion- citations
Why do we use citations?
What are the two types of citations that occur in an essay?
What is the purpose of a works cited page?

3. Works cited page
Your Works Cited page should include a detailed description of each source you used and where it can be found (directions on the following slides)
Should read “Works Cited” centered at the top. No italics, bold, or underlining of the text are necessary
Each source entry should be added on a new line
Use a hanging indent for all source entries
This has no indent on the first line of the source but all subsequent lines are indented
Hanging indents can be found under paragraph settings in Microsoft Word

4. Works Cited Page Books: Edition and editors are only used if necessary
Author Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. Edition of book. Editors. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.
Ex: Whittaker, James. Blogs: The New Journals. 2nd ed. Ed. Colleen O’Malley. New York: Penguin, Print.
Edition and editors are only used if necessary
If two or three authors are used, list all of them. However, if three or more authors are used, you list the first author followed by “et al.”
Ex: Whittaker, James, and Marie Munroe.
Ex: Whittaker, James, et al.

5. Works Cited Page Newspapers:
Author Lastname, Firstname. "Title of Article." Title of Periodical Day Month Year: pages. Medium of publication.
Ex: Poniewozik, James. "TV Makes a Too-Close Call." Time 20 Nov. 2000: Print.
Periodicals
Author Lastname, Firstname. "Title of Article." Title of Periodical Volume.Issue (Year):pages. Database (if applicable). Medium of publication. Date of access (if accessed online)
Example: Duvall, John N. "The (Super)Marketplace of Images: Television as Unmediated Mediation in DeLillo's White Noise." Arizona Quarterly 50.3 (1994): JSTOR. Web. 5 Apr
Most of the peer reviewed articles from the library databases will fall into this format

6. Works Cited Page Electronic Sources
Author Lastname, Firstname. “Title of Article” (if applicable). Title of Website. Version numbers or revisions. Publisher or Company, Date of Publication. Web. Date of access.
Ex: Bernstein, Mark. "10 Tips on Writing the Living Web." A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites. A List Apart Mag., 16 Aug Web. 4 May 2009.
Remember to use n.p. if no publisher name is available and n.d. if no publishing date is given.
URLs are no longer required
Websites can be some of the most difficult to cite due to formatting concerns and lack of relevant information

7. Individual activity – Works cited entry 2
Working individually, select one of the articles you have used for blog entry 4 (or for your informative essay)
Author or editor
Article or page name (put this in quotation marks)
Title of website (put this in italics or underline if hand written)
Any version numbers available, including editions (ed.), revisions, posting dates, volumes (vol.), or issue numbers (no.). (This can often be found by right clicking on the page and looking at its properties or scrolling all the way down. However, it is still not available for many pages. If you cannot find it, this part can be left blank)
Publisher of the website (often found at the bottom of the page. This will commonly be very similar to the title of the website)
Page numbers (this is rare for websites and usually only applies to .pdf files accessed electronically)
URL or DOI (leave out the
Date you accessed the material
Use answers 1-8 to create a works cited page citation for your source

8. Individual Activity- Works cited entry pt 2
Go to easybib.com
Select MLA 8 and paste the URL of your chosen article
Follow the steps to fill in missing information
Enter the citation according to easybib.com
What differences or incorrect information did the automated citation program provide as compared with the citation you created by hand?

9. Class discussion – Informative writing review
What is a hook?
What is a thesis?
What are the three lead/hook strategies we discussed last week?
What is inverted pyramid structure?
What are the 5-6 most crucial pieces of information in news writing?
What kind of evidence is primarily used for news writing?

10. Class discussion – article composition
Based on the story we selected as a class and researched last week
Who are the most important people in the story?
What happened or what were the most important events in the story?
When did the story occur or over what timespan?
Where did the story take place?
Why did these events happen? What factors could have caused or influenced them?
Based on the above information, what would be most important or interesting to our readers? What would be least important?

11. Individual activity- wti Outline
Working individually based on your blog entry 4 research
Who are the most important people in your story?
What happened or what were the most important events in the story?
When did you the story occur or over what timespan?
Where did the story take place?
Why did these events happen? What factors could have caused or influenced them?
Arrange answers 1-6 from the most important/engaging to least important information (you may se a number string to answer this question)
What are the most important or interesting quotes you found in the story? Try to identify at least two here

12. homework Bring computers to class on Thursday WTI Draft 1 150+ words
Due Friday 3-3
Should include your thesis and hook
Make sure to quote any information you take directly from your sources