1. Review

2. Bibliography or Works Consulted  Number the entries that you copied/pasted to this page (include the URL)  If you are on a cite which does not have the documentation, you may use Easy Bib, fill in the information, and copy/paste the listing to your Bibliography/Works Consulted page

3. Outline  Identify the major sections of your paper  Organize your notes into paragraphs  Make sure each paragraph has a topic sentence  Organize the information  Use parenthetical citation (“Growing”). Identify the source for the information  Chronological order – by dates  Order of importance – least important to most important or most important to least important  Write a “clincher” to set up the next section

4. Quoting  Include a signal phrase to set up a quote.  Identify the authoritative source… In his book Title, Adam Smith describes…  Adam Smith, author of Title, identifies…  See Model for more quoting examples…

5. Pre Test Explanations  Are parenthesis ( ) and brackets [ ] interchangeable? No ( ) are used for parenthetical citations while [ ] are used to indicate an error in the quoted material or to change the wording for correct sentence structure  Use parenthesis at the end of a quote or near information paraphrased/summarized in your own words.  A slash is used to note the change of a quoted line only in metered verse. Yes – if quoting fewer than 4 lines.  A quote of more than four lines should be indented without quotation marks. Yes – the indentation identifies the lines as a quote  The URL alone is the correct form for a Works Cited entry…NO follow the MLA format for the citation  The punctuation for an in-text citation looks like…  “There was a brotherhood between people” (Hosseini 11).

6. Continued  The Works Cited entries should be in numerical order. NO…alphabetical order  The Works Cited entries should be bulleted. NO…alphabetical order  The second line of the Works Cited entry should be indented like a paragraph. YES  The Works Cited page should have a header with the student’s last name and number (last page)  The Works Cited page should be double spaced. YES The entire paper is double spaced.  All Works Cited entries should end in a period. YES  The correct citation for Hamlet is (2.3.34-38) which indicates Act.Sc

7. Model for brackets  “Engine 674 and a Utah engine were dispatch [sic] to the area but could not located [sic] anything.”  Lester K. Rosenckrance, who headed the investigation, acknowledged that “inaccessible” was a misstatement and should have been amended to “inaccessible by [fire] engine.

8. Works Cited List the sources used in the paper. Present them in alpha order Entries should be double spaced The first line of the entry touches the left margin and the other lines are indented 5 spaces or 1 tab The Works Cited is the last page of you paper and should be numbered as such in the header

9. Parenthetical Citations  Follow MLA format (Copy/past from Database Cite or Word Process by using the MLA appropriate model  One page document – count the paragraphs (Smith par. 3).  Lifting quoted material from the text – Identify the person in a signal phrase / use (qtd. In Smith).

10. Common Mistakes  Italicize titles  The Introduction should have the title of the book & author and the title of the movie/director with the lead actor/s  Avoid 1 st and 2 nd person pronouns: I, We, Us, You  No contractions  Present tense  Who vs. That  Signal Phrase to set up quotes + parenthetical