3. ANNOUNCEMENTS???

4. Agenda

5. My 12 th Grade In-Text Citation Face HELP ME!!!!!!

6.  In-text citations – used to put important source information in parentheses after a paraphrase or quote  NOTE: Should NOT have more than 1/3 of your paper cited In-text citations

7.  Used within your research paper to refer readers to the source in the Works Cited page  Gives credit where credit is due  No in-text citation = plagiarism! Why Use In-Text Citations? (1)

8.  Paraphrasing an original idea from a source  Citing a fact that is NOT “common knowledge”  Summarizing another person’s idea  For example, Literary criticism!  Quoting In-Text Citations: Use when…

9.  For MLA style, in-text citations should include:  Author’s last name  Page number -Citation comes BEFORE the closing punctuation mark. Quotation: “Jem, like Tom, has an injured left arm and a healthy right arm. His hand turns at right angles, signifying his morally correct perspective” (Champion 234). Paraphrase: The fact that Jem’s left arm is broken demonstrates that he is a virtuous human being (Champion 234). In-Text Citations: MLA

10.  Set-up Line – a “signal phrase” that uses the author’s name to “set up” the fact/idea  If you use a set-up line = do NOT need to put the author’s name in parentheses -Direct quotation: As Laurie Champion explains, “Jem, like Tom, has an injured left arm and a healthy right arm. His hand turns at right angles, signifying his morally correct perspective (234). -Paraphrase: According to Laurie Champion, the fact that Jem’s left arm is broken demonstrates that he is a virtuous human being (234). Set-Up Line

11.  1. Grab a novel from under your desk (not a textbook/workbook).  2. Open the book and find a sentence that you’d like to quote.  3. On a separate piece of paper, complete these items:  a) Write the direct quotation with an in-text citation (____ #).  b) Write a paraphrase of the quotation with an in- text citation (________ #).  c) Rewrite your paraphrase with a set-up line, and the proper citation ( # ). Your Turn

12.  If you’re using an internet source that has no page numbers, such as an article, then only include the author’s last name in the citation. Example: Adam Cohen writes in his New York Times article that, “Long before there were late-night Abdominizer infomercials, Gatsby was a fervent believer in the gospel of self-improvement” (Cohen). In-Text Citations: MLA

13.  When the author is not known, the first thing in parentheses should be the first word or a short phrase in your entry for the source in your bibliography.  Usually the first word in the title  Not “the”  In quotes In-Text Citations: Author Unknown

14.  Example from a USA TODAY article: “Filling one of the biggest gaps in the e-library, To Kill a Mockingbird will become available as an e-book and digital audiobook on July 8, HarperCollins Publishers announced Monday” (“To Kill a Mockingbird”).  Source citation: “'To Kill a Mockingbird' finally going digital.” USA TODAY: n. pag. USA TODAY. Web. 30 Apr. 2014. <http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2014/04/28/to- kill-a-mockingbird-finally-going-digital-e-book/8386219/ Author Unknown: Example

15.  Shmoop.com example: http://www.shmoop.com/to-kill-a-mockingbird/justice-judgment-theme.html Paraphrase: In To Kill a Mockingbird, the court system only allows white people to be judged without bias (Shmoop Editorial Team). OR According to interpretations made by the Shmoop Editorial Team, the court system only allows white people to be judged without bias. In-Text Citations: Unique author cases

16.  A source cited within a source  “qtd. in” = indicates the source you used “Ravitch argues that high schools are pressured to act as ‘social service centers, and they don't do that well’" (qtd. in Weisman 259). Indirect Sources

17.  1. Get in groups of 3-4 people and grab a copy of the article excerpt (one per group).  2. Each group will read this article excerpt.  3. As a group, construct a paragraph that cites evidence using in-text citations to support a given thesis statement (on the next slide). Each paragraph must have:  A topic sentence.  5 pieces of supporting evidence WITH in-text citations  3 of these must use set-up lines Article Activity!!!

18. Thesis for Article Activity Participants in many types of competitive sports often experience anxiety due to a wide array of external factors.

19. For further information: **Purdue Owl: MLA Formatting and Style Guide (edited 2014) (https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/ http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e/res5e_ch08_s1-0001.html hackerandbooks.com Research and Documentation Online: 5 th edition http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e/res5e_ch08_s1-0001.html Bedford Writing Center: http://www.sinclair.edu/centers/wc/pub/documents/mlaintxt.pdf http://www.sinclair.edu/centers/wc/pub/documents/mlaintxt.pdf Portland State University Writing Center http://www.writingcenter.pdx.edu/resources/library.php?step09_deta il_3.html