2. Creating a Works Cited Page Senior Exit Project

3. Works Cited Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1976. Guernsey, Alfred H. and Henry M. Alden. Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. Katz, Joseph. Ed. The Complete Poems of Stephen Crane. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1966. Lincoln, Abraham. “Address at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery.” The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Paul Lauter et. al. Lexington: D. C. Heath and Company, 1990. Melville, Herman. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War. 1866. Gainesville: Scholar’s Facsimiles & Reprints, 1960. An MLA Works Cited Page— A Precisely Designed Document.

4. MLA Modern Language Association Humanities Professionals who have collectively chosen a precise methodology of documentation Meets the Specific Needs of the Discipline Provides Uniformity of Presentation Establishes a guide for writers

5. MLA—Works Cited Your Works Cited page will be the next consecutively numbered page of your paper following the body. Centered on the first line will be the words, Works Cited Not in italics, Not in bold, Not in quotation marks.

6. MLA Guides For best results, consult the most recent MLA Handbook. Consult your Writing and Grammar textbook. Consult handouts given by your teacher. Consult on-line sources for help.

7. Sample Entries: Book with one author Smith, Lee. Me and My Baby View the Eclipse. New York : G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1990. Print. 1.Author’s name, last name first 2.Title of the book, in italics or underlined 3.City of Publication 4.Publisher 5.Copyright Date 6. Medium

8. A Web Site Poetry Exhibits. The Academy of American Poets. 2 Feb. 2005 < http://www.poets.org/poets/ poets.cfm?45442B7C000C0106 >. 1.Title of the site, underlined or in italics. 2.Editior. if known 3.Date and version of the site if given 4.Name of Sponsoring Institution 5.Date of Access (Abbreviated if long enough, no punctuation following) 6.URL enclosed in chevrons.

9. Web Site with an Editor Landis Baptist. Com. Billy Honeycutt. Landis Baptist Church. 29 Nov. 2005. Title of the site, underlined or in italics. Editior. if known Date and version of the site if given Name of Sponsoring Institution Date of Access (Abbreviated if long enough, no punctuation following) URL enclosed in chevrons.

10. A Document from a Website Watson, Sam. “Buster’s Back Porch.” Charleston: To Learn a Place. UNC at Charlotte. 2 Feb. 2005 <www.uncc.edu/charleston>. 1.Author, last name first. 2.Title of the Document. 3.Title of the Site. 4.Date or Version Number. 5.Name of Sponsoring Institution 6.Date of Access 7.URL in chevrons

11. Article From a Magazine Last, First. “Article Title in Quotes.” Magazine Name Underlined or in Italics date (dd mon YEAR): Pages. Medium.

12. Article from a Magazine Boyd, Jesse. “Hebrew Poetry in the Psalms.” The Biblical Record 31 Jan 2001: 15—18. Print. (consecutive pages: 15—18.) (single page: 15.) (skipped pages: 15+.)

13. Remember---- This is not memory work Follow the Patterns Available No Excuses for Errors on Works Cited Pages

14. Internal, Parenthetical Citations Smith, Lee. Me and My Baby View the Eclipse. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1990. At the end of your quote by Miss Smith, before the period, add (Smith 77). “Perhaps then it is not surprising that I turned to God” (Smith 77).

15. Internal, Parenthetical Citation--Web Page Poetry Exhibits. The Academy of American Poets. 2 Feb. 2005 < http://www.poets.org/poets/ poets.cfm?45442B7C000C0106 >. At the end of your quotation or reference, enter the first word of the title of the web page. James Weldon Johnson and his brother, J. Rosmond, wrote the song, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” for a group of Florida children (Poetry).

16. Internal, Parenthetical Citation—Web Article Watson, Sam. “Buster’s Back Porch.” Charleston: To Learn a Place. UNC at Charlotte. 2 Feb. 2005 At the conclusion of your quotation or reference, enter the author’s last name. Remember, this came at a time when it was illegal for blacks to own property south of Calhoun Street. Even today, none live south of Broad (Watson).

17. FOLLOW THE PATTERN!