1. Works Cited in MLA
8th Grade ELA

2. Goals of a Works Cited Page What are they??

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

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

7. 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
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

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

9. 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.

10. 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