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Notes #18 Works Cited Slide and Parenthetical Citations
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Works Cited Slide What is it? A list of resources you used in your presentation Where does it go? The last slide or bubble thingy for Prezi.
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Works Cited Slide - Format What is the title? Works Cited (centered on page) What order? The resources should be in alphabetical order according to the 1 st letter of the citation. Use the hanging indent for EVERY citation. Look at this citation. Notice how it is indented backwards. That’s called a hanging indent: McComb, Todd. "William Byrd." Classicalnet. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Apr 2012..
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Works Cited Slide - Format What should the citations look like? Use the following website (Son of Citation Machine) to help you format your PRINT and WEB resources: http://citationmachine.net/index2.php?reqstyle id=1&newstyle=1&stylebox=1 1. Choose the type of source you are using 2. Fill in the appropriate information 3. Click submit 4. Cut and paste the citation into your Works Cited slide
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Works Cited Slide - Format For your DATABASE resource, you can cut and paste the citation from your Cornell Notes form. JUST MAKE SURE YOU STILL HAVE THE HANGING INDENT.
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Works Cited Slide - Example Works Cited Blume, Friedrich. The Musical Achievement of the Renaissance. Boston: Scribner, 1985. Print. “Lute.” Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6 th Edition (2011): 1. Middle Search Plus. Web. 18 Apr. 2012. McComb, Todd. "William Byrd." Classicalnet. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Apr 2012..
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Parenthetical Citations What is it? A little note that let’s me know which resource that fact or idea came from. Where does it go? At the end of the quoted, paraphrased, or summarized fact or idea (right here). BEFORE THE PERIOD!
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Parenthetical Citations What goes in it? The first word of the citation, usually the author’s last name, and the page number where that fact or idea came from. Example: “William Byrd was the leading composer during the English Renaissance” (Blume 15).
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Parenthetical Citations Another Example: “The lute has a half pear shaped body” (“Lute”). Why is there no page number?
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For Further Reading Check out this amazingly helpful website on MLA Citation rules: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource /557/01/
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